Guardian Druid Tank Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (11.0.5)

• You generally want to cycle a cooldown for each time the boss casts Brutal Crush on you. This is also the taunt swap mechanic on this fight.

• It is not generally worth using CDs on the Add Phase unless you are struggling to get aggro on the adds. Simply use cooldowns on pull and then again when the boss returns.

• You can remove Stalker's Netting by shapeshifting. On Mythic, it is no longer a root and will stun you instead.
• You can utilize Ursol's Vortex to help control adds if required.
• You can use Remove Corruption to dispel Digestive Acid on your raid members, if they are in the right position, to reduce their damage taken.

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• Consider using a defensive if you are at low HP when you are about to go down via Gruesome Disgorge.

• Use offensive cooldowns on cooldown.

• Use Ursol's Vortex to help slow the adds in The Shadow Realm.
• Utilize Stampeding Roar to quickly move away from the beams that rotate around the room or when the boss casts Goresplatter.

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• As a tank, you will take 2 hits of Expose (the second hits 200% harder), so make sure you have a good CD or two for each of these hits. Your co-tank should taunt for the 3rd hit, which is Phase Lunge. You then reverse the order on the next combo with you taunting for the Phase Lunge.

• Use offensive cooldowns on cooldown.

• Utilize Stampeding Roar when the boss casts Shattering Sweep to help your raid quickly run out and back in after the cast finishes.

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• Savage Assault is the main tank hit in this encounter and leaves a Savage Wound on you for a large percentage of the unmitigated damage. This means using multiple defensive cooldowns such as Barkskin and Rage of the Sleeper on the main hit will save you a lot of damage taken from the DoT afterward.

• On cooldown, but keep an eye on his next positioning time on your boss mods, as the boss will fly to a new position frequently.

• Savage Assault is the tank swap mechanic on this encounter. Taunt after each cast.
• Ensure that the active tank is in melee range, otherwise, the boss will start casting Tacky Burst.
• Stampeding Roar can be very useful when the boss flies away to his new position.

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• Because Volatile Concoction deals increased damage the more HP you are missing, I strongly recommend using a defensive and Frenzied Regeneration before it expires to be as healthy as possible.

• Use offensive cooldowns on cooldown.
• If the adds are not dying fast enough, then try to have your offensive cooldowns available for when the adds spawn. The large spiders in particular can deal massive tank damage and will almost certainly require you to cycle a cooldown.

• Volatile Concoction is the tank swap mechanic on this fight. You will always want to be as close to full HP as possible when it is expiring.
• Ursol's Vortex and Typhoon are both great tools when trying to keep the Blood Parasites under control.

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• Void Shredders deals a mixture of Physical and Shadow damage and leaves behind a DoT effect. This is also the best place to rotate defensive cooldowns as a tank for each cast.

• On cooldown.

• Void Shredders is the tank swap mechanic on this fight. Swap after each cast.
• If you are in danger of falling below 10% health, be sure to use Frenzied Regeneration or health pot/stone to get yourself back up, otherwise the boss will execute you.
• Stampeding Roar can be useful when the boss casts Nexus Daggers or Assassination to help your raid members quickly run out and drop their portal phantoms. You can also use this when the rifts spawn out of position in an attempt to fight the stronger more dangerous pull effect.

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• Piercing Strike is the tank hit. Rotate defensive cooldowns for each of these hits. This stacks up a 100% physical damage taken debuff each time. It may be viable to take multiple of these on heroic and below, but make sure you use very large cooldowns for anything past 1 stack. On Mythic you MUST taunt swap on 1 stack otherwise you will very likely get killed by the 2nd as it hits much harder.

• On cooldown.

• Poison Bolt can be dispelled with Remove Corruption to reduce damage taken. This is generally not worth the GCD on heroic and below as the boss will spam the ability repeatedly. However, on Mythic this ability stacks up and can deal huge damage very quickly, the ability to dispel this makes Guardian a fantastic tank at solo tanking Skeinspinner Takazj during phase 1.
• Stampeding Roar can be utilized when the boss casts Web Vortex to assist your raid in running out and re-positioning quickly.

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• Make sure to always have a defensive up if you are taking Feast, Liquefy, Infest or Gorge.

• On-cooldown.

• If you are the designated Feast tank then I recommend the Elune's Chosen build. This will enable you to have Lunar Beam availabe for each cast of Feast and allow you to easily heal the healing absorb off quickly without the need for help from healers with a few Frenzied Regeneration's.
• Stampeding Roar can be used when the boss is casting Wrest to assist your raid in running out and repositioning quickly. It is also useful when running up the web bridges in phase 2.
• Typhoon and Ursol's Vortex can be very handy tools when trying to stop the Caustic Skitterer adds from meleeing you too often in P2. These can also be used on the p3 Gloom Hatchling adds to stop them from reaching the boss.

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