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Originally Posted by Noselacri [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Monks are alright soloers with good gear. You can solo to 35ish with ease in just a set of Wu's, hp rings, jade mace type weapons and FBSS. If you add some more heavy-duty twinking like a high-end haste item and expensive staff, you could go to 40+ with no trouble. A fungi would let you solo to 60, though it'd probably start to suck after the early 50s.

Shadowknights can fear-kite all the way, and that's guaranteed to be a decent route. Can't match the actual solo classes, but it's a fully viable way to go. Doesn't require that much gear, either; a good weapon and an FBSS will do, you aren't going to be tanking very much. Add solid twinking and it's a strong soloer. Only serious concern is mana since you can't med while fighting and fear is kinda expensive, but this gets better when you can use Blood Ember clickies for your snare and fear, you only have to spend mana on tapping back the little damage you take while re-casting fears. I've soloed a shadowknight to 40 with less than 40k in gear (no regen item) and it didn't feel particularly slow.

Paladins can just barely solo. Their DPS is terrible and they don't have much solo-applicable utility, so it'll be okayish against undead and marginally doable against anything else. Deepwater helm helps some, but that's 46+ so you'll be without it for most of the journey. What they gain from buffs and healing, they lose by doing so little DPS that the fights are too long to be efficient.

Rangers are actually okay soloers. Their heals are small but have almost the same mana efficiency as paladin, druid and shaman heals. That whole line of 'X Healing' spells don't change much except for the size - it only costs 30 more mana to heal the same amount with Healing as you do with Greater Healing. They have a good ratio of DPS to tankability, they have amazing solo utility (snare, root, harmony, tracking, thorns) and have the option of bow/DoT-kiting if they want. Add the 50% slow from Swarmcaller and it starts to look reasonable. It obviously doesn't compare to caster soloing, but I'd call it better than paladin and comparable to a monk without fungi.

Warriors and rogues shouldn't bother without fungi. Maybe you'd get to 30 with an ikky bp, but that's it.

It would be hard for me to add much to your post Noselacri. Good job on the breakdown..