An Invitation to Dinner R1 soloing question

[Grinkle_65]

Is it feasible for me to solo An Invitation to Dinner at R1?

L13 THF Paladin, best piece of gear I have is the Barovian GS (no really great gear, in other words).

5th Life Paladin, 3 Wiz, 1 Cleric, 1 Warlock. +8 stat tome.

I only solo, this is the first life I am trying Reapers. So far, I am finding that I often need to attempt a dungeon 4 or 5 time to complete it. When I die its usually by rushing too fast into a fight and I need to somehow split mobs or park a healer out of aggro and run back for heals once in a while or for really long fights that I can't split the mobs I just plan to die, get a hireling rez and finish the fight. Rarely I will die just from bad luck with reaper spawns but so far I've found its mostly avoidable if I change up my tactics. Been very fun compared to easy walk-throughs on normal or hard at-level.

So in this quest, I've been fully face-rolled twice in the opening fight by the shades of terror or whatever they are called that curse you with reduced max hp's. Drinking RC pots didn't save me, the two shades pile up the curses faster than I can drink them off. My healing hirelings are killed very quickly, the shades roam the room and there is no spot to park them. TP'ing in a hireling rez after dying and quickly using unyielding Sov just results in one more face-roll. I have pretty good heal amp, 120 or so, I don't think increasing that will help me, even if I can find a way to increase it.

If I can get past this room I think I can finish the dungeon, the rest of the iffy fights have safe spots to park a hireling if I recall correctly. Anyway, is this beating my head against a wall? Does anyone have any Paly tactics to suggest that might work? I don't mind using multiple GS hirelings if that would help and there is a reasonable (50 / 50 is reasonable) chance of success. I haven't even spawned a reaper in this fight and I am getting totally squashed. I do not have the perspective that I am 'entitled' to be able to solo this quest, maybe its just not in the cards. Before I conclude that I thought I'd ask.

[Hobgoblin]

Is it feasible for me to solo An Invitation to Dinner at R1?

L13 THF Paladin, best piece of gear I have is the Barovian GS (no really great gear, in other words).

5th Life Paladin, 3 Wiz, 1 Cleric, 1 Warlock. +8 stat tome.

I only solo, this is the first life I am trying Reapers. So far, I am finding that I often need to attempt a dungeon 4 or 5 time to complete it. When I die its usually by rushing too fast into a fight and I need to somehow split mobs or park a healer out of aggro and run back for heals once in a while or for really long fights that I can't split the mobs I just plan to die, get a hireling rez and finish the fight. Rarely I will die just from bad luck with reaper spawns but so far I've found its mostly avoidable if I change up my tactics. Been very fun compared to easy walk-throughs on normal or hard at-level.

So in this quest, I've been fully face-rolled twice in the opening fight by the shades of terror or whatever they are called that curse you with reduced max hp's. Drinking RC pots didn't save me, the two shades pile up the curses faster than I can drink them off. My healing hirelings are killed very quickly, the shades roam the room and there is no spot to park them. TP'ing in a hireling rez after dying and quickly using unyielding Sov just results in one more face-roll. I have pretty good heal amp, 120 or so, I don't think increasing that will help me, even if I can find a way to increase it.

If I can get past this room I think I can finish the dungeon, the rest of the iffy fights have safe spots to park a hireling if I recall correctly. Anyway, is this beating my head against a wall? Does anyone have any Paly tactics to suggest that might work? I don't mind using multiple GS hirelings if that would help and there is a reasonable (50 / 50 is reasonable) chance of success. I haven't even spawned a reaper in this fight and I am getting totally squashed. I do not have the perspective that I am 'entitled' to be able to solo this quest, maybe its just not in the cards. Before I conclude that I thought I'd ask.

just some tips - for that fight - if you do it - you want cc. they look undead and are not. they can be stunned istakilled etc. second, ramp up your dps. burst dps is key. iirc you should have your holy killie thinggee and might get lucky and kill them instantly. barring that i would try killing all the trash first so your hires dont keep dying.

[cru121]

There's a ML11 Fighter hireling with dimension door that can help you bypass the first fight.
Start with Mikael, get ddoor up, chat with Strahd and leave asap.
Kick Mikael and get a medic instead for the rest of the quest.
That said, soloing is not an ideal way to start accruing reaper points.

[Grinkle_65]

Thanks for the tips. I do have the instakill, but it would take really good luck to get both of the terrors with it. The DD sounds like a solid approach. Its cheesy, but it will get me past that room.

Regarding soloing, I've been playing MMORPG's for many years and in all of the other ones I have played, soloing is very different than grouping in terms of what makes for good tactics. I'm just a bit embarrassed to inflict myself on others, if I'm honest. I don't even know how the chat windows work, and I'm on my 5th life.