Queen Ansurek Guide - Nerub-ar Palace - Heroic/Normal - The War Within Raid 11.0

Summary

In this video, Jimfro discusses the final boss of Nerub-ar Palace, Queen Ansurek, providing an educated guess on her mechanics due to the lack of actual footage. The fight is speculated to have three phases with an intermission, requiring strategic use of abilities like bloodlust and careful management of adds and environmental hazards. Key mechanics include dealing with Reactive Toxin, avoiding deadly rings, and coordinating raid movements. The video also highlights the importance of the new WoWHead Cheatsheets for quick boss strategy access and thanks supporters on Patreon for exclusive content.

Takeaways

• 🎮 The boss fight against Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace is speculated based on dungeon journal information as there's no actual footage available.
• 🔄 The encounter consists of three phases with an intermission after the first phase, requiring strategic movement and coordination among players.
• 💣 In phase one, players must manage Reactive Toxin by moving to the platform's edge and using bombs to jump over expanding rings, avoiding damage.
• 🌀 During the intermission, the boss gains an absorb shield, and players must avoid being pulled and manage stacks of slow debuff while dodging ground waves.
• 🐜 Phase two involves splitting the raid to ascend platforms, dealing with various adds like Ascended Voidspeakers and Chamber Guardians, each with unique mechanics.
• 🚫 Devoted Worshippers, a type of add, must be prioritized for quick elimination as they can wipe the raid with a long cast if not interrupted.
• 🔮 In phase three, players must use portals to teleport through collapsing rings, similar to a mechanic in Sepulcher against Artificer Xy’mox.
• 🕷️ The boss employs marks and Royal Shackles on heroic difficulty, which require players to manage additional mechanics like avoiding connected shackles.
• 🤺 Tank mechanics include Infest and Gorge, which demand taunt swaps and careful management of debuffs and adds spawned during the fight.
• ⏱️ The boss fight has a hard enrage condition after the fourth collapsing ring, emphasizing the need for timely damage output and strategy execution.

Q & A

Who is the last boss of Nerub-ar Palace?

The last boss of Nerub-ar Palace is Queen Ansurek.

What is the significance of the dungeon journal in relation to Queen Ansurek?

The dungeon journal provides the best educated guess for the boss fight strategies since there's no actual footage of Queen Ansurek being tested.

How many phases are there in the fight against Queen Ansurek?

There are three phases in the fight against Queen Ansurek, with an intermission after the first phase.

What is the recommended action when players receive the Reactive Toxin debuff?

Players with the Reactive Toxin debuff should move to the same edge of the platform, spread out a little, and wait for the debuff to drop a bomb on the ground when it expires.

How should players handle the expanding ring mechanic during the fight?

Players should split up between each bomb and wait in its circle until the ring gets close, then have a player touch each bomb to detonate it and launch everyone over the ring.

What is the strategy for dealing with the boss's root cast in phase one?

Players should group together without being in each other's circles too much and aoe down the web adds that spawn after the cast to free everyone from their roots.

What is the role of the tanks during the Liquefy and Feast casts by the boss?

Tanks need to taunt swap right after the Liquefy cast to avoid heavy damage and increased physical damage taken. They also need to keep tanking during Feast while healers blast through the heal absorb.

What happens during the intermission phase with Queen Ansurek?

During the intermission, the boss gets a massive absorb shield, applies a long dot to the whole raid, and occasionally pulls everyone toward her, one-shotting anyone too close.

What is the main goal of phase two in the fight against Queen Ansurek?

The main goal of phase two is to split the raid in half and work up the side platforms around the outside of the room, killing all the adds to eventually get to the boss and end the phase.

How should players deal with the Devoted Worshippers add in phase two?

Devoted Worshippers have a huge absorb shield and a super long cast that wipes the raid if they finish it, so they need to be nuked down super quick.

What is the key mechanic in phase three of the fight against Queen Ansurek?

The key mechanic in phase three is similar to Artificer Xy’mox, where a short debuff goes on a couple players, dropping a portal on the ground when it expires, which players use to teleport through a collapsing ring that the boss spawns.