Best Solo Class/Build
I had a fun time soloing even champions with a vrit/toughness traited greatsword/mace-shield Guardian.
thats Crit/toughness*
Well thieves are quite the loners too .And a D/D Condition build would make you invulnerable for most of the active battle and great amounts of damage.
Any other thoughts?
Ranger is good for soloing, particularly at tagging in DE’s and its survivability is decent as well. Between traps, barrage, and ricochet of axe, you should walk away from events with as much or more than any other profession.
Warrior, Guardian, Thief, Ranger, Mesmer, Necromancer, Engineer and Elemetalist are alll great solo and have great builds available to them (check each class forum).
I’d argue against Mesmer. They shine in groups and PVP but in PVE their capabilities are lacking. And this is coming from an 80 Mesmer; my favorite class, so I have no reason to hate, I only wish they could compete but the fact is at present they can’t.
All of them.
Mesmer gets noticable mention as the bottom of the pile, since it’s reliance on clones and disabling foes makes it the least resistant to swarms. But really, all of them can excel if you “get” how they work and are good at it.
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Condition damage pistol engineer with healing turret, supply crate, grenade kit, and two other skills of your choice.
Healing turret place/detonate/aura combo plus regular turret or crate plus offhand pistol gloop makes for a terrifyingly survivable PvE character. Cooldown reductions or heal-on-crit runes make it even better (although I prefer to take a small hit to survivability to up my damage when it comes to runes). Haven’t found an overworld anything that I couldn’t solo, including champions and group events.
(EDIT: Sorry, to be honest I can’t solo some group events in Straits of Devastation / Orr. But they weren’t designed to be soloed so I feel all right.)
Groups of veteran mobs with heavy ranged stun/slow or single champions with rapid-fire ranged condition damage sometimes give me problems and are more trouble than they’re worth.
I possibly might have trouble with soloing a world boss but I’ve never had the chance.
(edited by GregT.4702)
Full turret engineer is amazing at soloing. Even if you pull a group of 9-10 same level NPCs, just overcharge all your turrets and get ready for a fight. With the exception of some Orr champs/group quests I have yet to find anything I couldn’t go alone in that spec.