We are a four player group and we do have difficulties to beat TDT. Easy mode is still not an option, but we struggle to reach stage 2 or 3. Depending on the draws of the encounter deck, we struggle with to many locations, or the nasty and very frequent tracheries, or healing in general, or in monster flooding.

We do use a Outlands deck, which might be silly to use (because you loose all but one ally in stage 2) but until then it definitely helps questing a lot, a Noldor discard deck (healing, questing and usually no cards in hand which helps to circumvent some nasty enemy effects), a Beorn and Eowyn centered deck (defences and optional cards to discard), as well as an Aragorn/Hobbit deck to recursively kill enemies. Sounds good for me, but not luck at all.

Any suggestions how to beat this quest?!