Restoration Shaman Healing Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (Season 1)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Restoration Shaman for each boss of the following raid: Nerub-ar Palace. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (Season 1).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Nerub-ar Palace. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Nerub-ar Palace guides.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Restoration Shaman and how you can deal with each fight as best as possible.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for parsing.
Nerub'ar Palace Boss Guides for Restoration Shaman
Nerub'ar Palace Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Restoration Shaman
Tips for Ulgrax the Devourer for Restoration Shaman
Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Nothing specific to note yet.
Cooldown Usage
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Bloodbound Horror for Restoration Shaman
Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Nothing specific to note yet.
Cooldown Usage
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sikran for Restoration Shaman
Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Nothing specific to note yet.
Cooldown Usage
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Rasha'nan for Restoration Shaman
Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Nothing specific to note yet.
Cooldown Usage
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Broodtwister Ovi'nax for Restoration Shaman
Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Nothing specific to note yet.
Cooldown Usage
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Nexus-Princess Ky'veza for Restoration Shaman
Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Nothing specific to note yet.
Cooldown Usage
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for The Silken Court for Restoration Shaman
Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Nothing specific to note yet.
Cooldown Usage
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Queen Ansurek for Restoration Shaman
Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Nothing specific to note yet.
Cooldown Usage
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Defensive Usage Notes
Restoration Shaman has multiple defensive tools that you can plan
to use to survive through targeted or high raid damage mechanics. Rotate between
Astral Shift and 
Stone Bulwark Totem before high damage moments,
and remember to refresh 
Ancestral Vigor and 
Earth Shield on
yourself ahead of time!
Earth Elemental is also a good tool for its 15% health increase and
potential 5% damage reduction with 
Primordial Bond, but keep in mind its
long 1-minute duration and even longer 5-minute cooldown!
General Cooldown Usage
Restoration Shaman has a few healing and damage reduction cooldowns to consider when doing the encounters of Nerub-ar Palace:
Healing Tide Totem — is a simple 3-minute baseline cooldown totem
that heals everyone around it for a large amount over 10 seconds; use it against
bursts of raid damage that happen over a lengthy period;
Spirit Link Totem — redistributes the health of players around
it, provides 15% damage reduction and also a large heal (with Spouting Spirits)
on a 3-minute baseline cooldown. Use it against large raid damage burst events,
especially if they are mixed with high single-target damage that would likely kill
whoever is hit;
Ascendance — is either 3-minute and extra powerful
with 
Preeminence or 2-minute with 
First Ascendant, and allows you
to replicate your healing to nearby allies and thus do much more raid healing with
your regular rotation than you usually can. Rotate it, and Healing Tide Totem
against large bursts of raid damage over time;
Ancestral Guidance — copies 10% of your healing to three targets
in the raid every second for 10 seconds. Due to producing many small targeted healing
events, Guidance is great at focusing the extra healing of Ascendance
on the targets that need in your group and is thus usually used alongside Ascendance.
Take into account that 
Water Totem Mastery will randomly reduce the
cooldown of your totems, leading to them having a lower cooldown than the typical
3-minute baseline. 
Totemic Surge also contributes towards cooldown totems
having a lower cooldown than their tooltip indicates. 
Healing Tide Totem
can then also benefit from Current Control reducing its cooldown even further,
making it usable much more often than its 3-minute baseline cooldown would suggest!
In addition to the general rotation, you want to keep in mind that your goal is to use your cooldowns as often as possible during an encounter. With that in mind, your secondary goal is to use them at the correct time. You will also want to manage your Mana accordingly in order to finish the fight close to zero Mana, but also not run out too fast, as that will prevent you from doing high healing when needed as you wait for regen in between casts.
Changelog
- 09 Sep. 2024: Guide added.
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This guide has been written by Seksi, member of Arctic Avengers and healing aficionado. You can find him answering questions and discussing Restoration Shaman gameplay on the Ancestral Guidance and Earthshrine Discords.
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