Man, I am trying to complete all of the quest in order. I have now moved into the Khazad Dum expansion set. And let me say this, Into the Pit is kicking my a@@. I think I am up to about 10 plays now with no victories.

I either get threated out or I lose heroes due to treacheries. I am at a loss now as to how to beat this quest. I watched the video from the progression series of COTR.

How would some of y'all tackle this quest in my position? I have 2 core sets and all of the sets from Core to Khazad Dum.

I seriously need some help and ideas. I can't make any headway in this quest.

I beat Into the Pit on my second try (2p) with a Lore/Spirit and a Leadership/Tactics deck. Keys for the victories were:

a) Heroes: Thalin, Gloin, Dain // Glorfindel, Eowyn, Denethor

Glorfindel + Eowyn are really an awesome combo when you need to score quickly some high willpower, and Dain boosting all other dwarves helpes a lot more. Additionally, Faramir allowed some extra Willpower to be easily scored

b) I had two Northern Tracker in the deck: their power, combined with the ability of the torch to put 3 progress markers on any one "Dark" location helped a lot in avoiding stacking of locations in the staging area. In this way you avoid triggering all the nastieness related to travelling to some locations in Moria

The last stage of the quest is pretty easy once you have time and patience to field some allies during the earlier rounds.

Check my channel there is a lot of quest in solo mode. You can get some idea there