Assassination Rogue DPS Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (11.0.5)

• Use Cloak of Shadows to remove the DoT from Venomous Lash if your healers are struggling to heal through the damage.
• You can also use Cloak of Shadows to clear the webs on the ground. Make sure to do so while no other raid member is close-by, or they still get webbed.

• Simply send your cooldowns on cooldown to maximize boss damage. Other classes are better at dealing with the adds, so do not hold cooldowns for these.

• Keep your Sprint to feed the boss with Chunky Viscera after each of the phases. Few classes have higher mobility than you do.

• There are no specific considerations to be made for Mythic Difficulty on this fight.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

• You can use Cloak of Shadows to remove Crimson Rain, or simply use Crimson Vial to help with healing.

• Use your DPS cooldowns on cooldown, and try to make sure you are positioned well to cleave the adds while hitting the Forgotten Harbinger in the Unseeming phase of the fight.

• If need be, you can use Cloak of Shadows or Shadowstep to get to the other side of the beam.

• There are no specific considerations to be made for Mythic Difficulty on this fight.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

• Use Cloak of Shadows to get rid of the debuff placed by Phase Blades.
• Use Feint every time Simulacrums are being broken.

• Use your DPS cooldowns on cooldown. Keep an eye out on the timer for the boss's Charge ability, so the boss is not out of melee-range during your cooldowns.

• You can stay in melee-range for Shattering Sweep if you time the usage of your Cloak of Shadows correctly. If you use it during the last second of the cast, you immune-cloak the hit. If you use it too early, you still get hit.

• There are no specific considerations to be made for Mythic Difficulty on this fight.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

• When the boss is casting Erosive Spray before leaving a position, use Cloak of Shadows.

• Use your DPS cooldowns on cooldown.

• Make sure to hold Sprint to move from one boss position to the next.

• There are no specific considerations to be made for Mythic Difficulty on this fight.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

• You can use Cloak of Shadows or Vanish to remove Web Eruption, but make sure you do not hit any other players before removing it yourself.

• Use your DPS cooldowns on the boss.

• Make sure to save Sprint in case you are targeted by Experimental Dosage so that you can break out the eggs that are furthest away from the raid, and closest to the growing void ground effect.

• Since you do not play Improved Garrote on this fight, you should be ready to break your own Web Eruption with Vanish wthout requiring a dispel.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

• You can pre-cloak the application of Queensbane when targeted with Twilight Massacre.
• Make sure to hold your Healthstone and Health Potion in case you are ever close to dropping to below 10% HP. Especially during the intermission.
• Feint does NOT work on any of the major abilities in this fight.

• Use your DPS cooldowns on cooldown. This means your 1-minute Kingsbane will line up with the second set of Twilight Massacres. Read below for how to deal with this.

• By pre-cloaking the Queensbane debuff, you will not have to run away from the boss. Make sure your arrow does not hit any other player.

• For maximum DPS, you will want to hold Cloak of Shadows for the second set of Twilight Massacres in order to be able to use all your CDs on cooldown. The enrage of the fight sits at 6 minutes and 30 seconds, and delaying CDs is not an option unless you know that you will make the DPS check.
• If DPS is not an issue, it is recommended to instead play out the second set of Twilight Massacres, use Feint to survive, and hold on to Cloak of Shadows for the last set of Regicides that hit all players during the intermission.
• It is highly recommended to play Elusiveness on this fight if you can, and switching to Bait and Switch. Use Evasion during the last 10 seconds of the intermission, and make sure to Feint every Regicide hit.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

• You can pre-cloak Venomous Rain to remove and avoid the DoT stack application.

• Use your DPS cooldowns on cooldown, but if a charge is imminent, save them to benefit from the DPS increase on Anubarash.
• If you have a powerful damaging on-use trinket, use it during one of the damage amplification phases.

• This boss is largely about executing well, and the boss will fall. Make sure to not use Cloak of Shadows when you have to spread the debuff to Takazj.

• You will likely be in the Red group on this fight. If your tanks end up having issues with threat on pull, talent into Tricks of the Trade to help them out a little.
• Make sure to pre-cloak the third Venomous Rain. This applies a second stack of the DoT to the entire raid, but you not only do not only avoid the debuff entirely this way, but also do not spawn an Orb that needs to be soaked.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

• Make sure to hold Cloak of Shadows in case you get more than 2 stacks in Phase 1.
• Do NOT use Cloak of Shadows in Phase 3 to not take the portal. While you will survive the initial hit, you will die shortly after to a massive DoT.

• Use everything on cooldown, unless your group struggles with damage to the absorb shield after Phase 1. Delay your CDs to 2:30 into the fight instead to blast the shield, and make sure to cast an extra Shiv in P1 to not overcap.

• After triggering the Knock-up, you can Shadowstep back to the boss if the Poison Nova is already past you.
• During the Intermission in P1, you can use Shadowstep to negate the pull-in from the boss. Make sure you have enough distance to actually react to the cast, else you will die.

• There are no specific considerations to be made for Mythic Difficulty on this fight (yet).

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!