As a DRK, what would I need to solo the Praetorium?

[Soldowner]

I'm just curious for the sake of going back and completing every ARR dungeon alone. Would I need the restored artifact gear to be capable of this?

[SpookyGhost]

Nah. Can do it pretty early on. I'd recommend duoing it, makes Nero a lot easier.

[Freyyy]

Yeah Nero is the most annoying thing ever solo. I personally did this back in the early 3.0 days with full i180 Law gear and Hive Claymore. Nero is really a pain in the ass.

[Giantbane]

I'm just curious for the sake of going back and completing every ARR dungeon alone. Would I need the restored artifact gear to be capable of this?

Just level up WAR. It's just so much better solo than the DRK or PLD are.

[Soldowner]

Just level up WAR. It's just so much better solo than the DRK or PLD are.

Yeeeeah, no. WAR is unappealing to me.

[saber_alter]

Yeeeeah, no. WAR is unappealing to me.

Unless you intend to solo titan EX, i'm sure you'll be fine.

[Reynhart]

Just level up WAR. It's just so much better solo than the DRK or PLD are.

Except... that it's not, especially in dungeons where you can pull entire packs for a Drain spam.

[SpookyGhost]

Except... that it's not, especially in dungeons where you can pull entire packs for a Drain spam.

I mean this is true, but in the same token WAR can OP spam w/ Berserk + IR + Bloodbath with Decimate weaved in and Equilibrium back TP. The main advantage DRK has solo against trash is Shadowskin and Shadow Wall, whereas WAR only has Vengeance for damage reduction since Thrill works as a self heal without a healer (you can RI + Awareness but 1. that's better against a boss and 2. you're not going to get everything out of RI). Living Dead will actually kill you, though, whereas Holmgang you can potentially survive with. It's not entirely worth discussing though, both can do fine soloing stuff (except some harder stuff that only WAR can manage due to self healing on top of necessary DPS required). PLD, on the other hand... not so great for trash.

[Reynhart]

I mean this is true, but in the same token WAR can OP spam w/ Berserk + IR + Bloodbath with Decimate weaved in and Equilibrium back TP.

Lots of CD that have far less uptime than Blood Price + Dark Arts + Abyssal Drain.
That's their most definitive advantage againt trash.

[SpookyGhost]

Lots of CD that have far less uptime than Blood Price + Dark Arts + Abyssal Drain.
That's their most definitive advantage againt trash.

Ok, but generally you're just pulling half the dungeon and AOEing everything down, and unless you are for some reason doing lvl 51-60 dungeons solo then everything will die when WAR's CDs run out. Unless your gear is trash, in which case DRK has a slight advantage but again, not entirely relevant, doesn't really matter, do it on either, etc.

Also WAR does higher damage on bosses due to the slashing debuff. But, again, irrelevant, blah blah blah.