Nerub’ar Palace
Nerub’ar Palace is a new eight boss raid. Blizzard is back to releasing Normal and Heroic difficulty raids first on September 10th (NA). The following week will mark the opening of Mythic difficulty, on September 17th.
The following guides are designed around Heroic, with brief snippets at the bottom on Mythic mechanics. The strategies within will work on normal mode as well with reduced mechanics – it’s always good to practice good habits!
As always, these guides are subject to change as they are based on beta testing, and will be updated ASAP upon hitting live servers. The final boss wasn’t available to test on the beta and the guide for it will release a little later.
Useful information
- There is a new instance buff called Severed Strands that increases your damage and healing done by 3% per stack. You gain this buff by exchanging a currency (Nerub-ar Finery) that is looted from raid bosses over time. This serves as a soft nerf of the raid as the season progresses.
- The raid is linear. There are 4 tiers of item level within the raid, increasing in IL for every 2 bosses you kill.
- Ulgrax and The Bloodbound Horror
- Sikran and Rasha’nan
- Broodtwister Ovi’nax and Nexus-Princess Ky’veza
- The Silken Court and Queen Ansurek
- Very rare items are back and drop at the highest item level available for that track of gear.
Key consumables
More details coming soon.
- Flasks – Flasks are back, with Phials now being profession-buffs only.
- Potions
- Food
- Augment Runes
- Enchants and Gems
- Vantus Runes for the progression boss that week
QE Live will be updated for The War Within the day the patch goes live, for all of your healer gearing needs including Top Gear, trinket graphs and more.