I had no problem boxing everything up to Phara Dar, but I was also geared through a guild for most of that. And my tank (Rude, SK) had the donor shield which is super awesome for the DT'ing golems. Phara Dar, however, took me FOREVER to kill. I must've wiped over 25 times on her before I got her down. That's AFTER figuring out the exact nature of clicking her statues. Such a brutal fight, at least for me. Congrats!
Have fun in DSK, my friend

Vaion was a sadistic bastard when engineering some of those fights

Redfang is a bottleneck for everyone. And Xeru is HECTIC.