Power ON

When you zone into the raid, take the right hand path to the first boss. On a platform off to the right of the main walkway just before the boss room is a Depleted Automa laying down.

You must displace this Automa into the boss room before pulling. We used Death Grip from our Blood DK, and did not test other displacement abilities such as Typhoon or Thunderstorm, but these should work in theory.

Once it's in the boss room you can pull the boss, and kill two of the Pre-Fabricated Sentries, which will power it up fully. Once powered up it puts a large zone around it that makes other adds take reduced damage. You must then kill the add before the Exposed Core starts otherwise you'll die to the AoE. When the Depleted Automa dies, the energy it has will move to the nearest Defense Matrix Automa and power it up to be used for Exposed Core as normal.

Once it's dead you can proceed with the fight as normal.

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Vigilant Guardian - Power ON
- Power up and kill the [npc=184759] before defeating the boss.
- Before pull, use a Death Knight to grip the inactive add into the boss arena. Add location.
- Pull the boss and kill adds near the [npc=184759] to activate it.
- Once active, kill it and then defeat the boss.

Soloable as probably all classes. If you kill mobs close enough to the edge of the arena near the Depleted Automa it can gain power even though it's still on the platform it started on. The tricky part is then killing it without the fight resetting but it is possible.

With how fast we kill mobs we can have the entire arena clear of the deactivated adds on the ground before the second exposed core cast. This gives us plenty of time during the cast to leave the arena (exposed core deals negligible damage), kill the Automa, and come back before anything spawns and tries to path to us resetting the fight.

Depending on your spec there are 2 things you will need to be concerned about:
1. Exiting and re-entering the arena
2. Killing the Automa (Either from range or by jumping to his platform and then getting back)

For problem 1, all classes should be able to do a semi-precise jump around the gate. The faster you can move the better and obviously things like double jump or disengage trivialize it. You can practice it at the start of the fight as well if desired. You also might be able to use soulshape to blink through the gate but I did not test this. (I did try door of shadows but I could not find a way for it to help.)

For problem 2, any melee-only class without some form of decent ranged damage or other shenanigans that I can think of (aka warrior and rogue) should be able to grab an on-use trinket that deals damage from range. I used grieftorch on a feral because it's currently season 4 of dragonflight but come The War Within you should have at least a couple easy to obtain options. The Automa has 1.7 million health, and reminder that shadowlands covenant abilities, conduits, soulbinds, and legendaries are all still active inside shadowlands raids so those could give you something to work with too.

Also probably goes without saying but if you have a death knight or a second player (have one player start the fight inside the arena and the other outside) this is trivial to obtain in current gear.