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I can solo mine but it's definitely not among the easiest solo toons I have.
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I guess its what you class as "easy to solo". Does that mean fastest, safest, most damaging?
Solo has now been forced on me as all my past team mates have all spread out after hitting 50, and at lvl 30 there just aint the same amount of people online at the moment 9.00pm-12.00pm.
On my Fire/Rad I find it very possible to solo on vicious at lvl 30 but it is slow and perilous.
To give a comparison albeit on my MM, I could solo him on relentless and fly through mishions in about half the time.
I really hope that this corrupter will have a better 'feel good factor' at higher lvls or I might lose interest.
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I can solo mine but it's definitely not among the easiest solo toons I have.
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I guess its what you class as "easy to solo". Does that mean fastest, safest, most damaging?
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For me it's a balance between safety and damage. Able to do missions on highest or second highest difficulty setting comfortably, with reasonable pace and little to no faceplants. Does not need to stock up on inspirations for normal solo missions. Scrappers are a prime example of easy to solo.
Fire/Kin is IMO too much of a glass cannon for this. It can be extremely effective but requires some concentration and skill and if you're out of breakfrees and get mezzed you're pretty much screwed. I'm sure a fire/kin who has good luck and a skilled player behind keyboard can zip through a mission faster than a brute, however faster doesn't mean more easily.
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On my Fire/Rad I find it very possible to solo on vicious at lvl 30 but it is slow and perilous.
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You should try soloing a AR/Cold corruptor. Quite possibly the most difficult toon I have when it comes to soloing. Put him in a team and it's different story. I think it largely comes down to how soloable your secondary is. A lot of the corruptor secondaries are very team orientated, with the exception of /Rad and /Dark. If you look at the cold secondary set, some of the early powers (2 shields and frostwork) are useless outside of a team.
My Fire/Kin is my favourite toon to solo, he's my favourite toon over all in fact. I don't see why people seem to think Kin is such a purely team-based set. If you want to build a pure solo build with it, then its no challenge to just skip SB and Increase Density, and Fulcrum Shift works just as well on one person.
Yes, it is a challenge sometimes, a single hold can take me very close to death, but that just makes the play more exciting. My SS/Stone Brute is of course a lot safer to solo, even on the highest difficulty its rare to find a mob that poses much of a challenge, but I do such low damage that it becomes a boring grind to power through the mobs, no excitement at all. Fire/Kin is the complete opposite, to stand any chance of finishing a mission without faceplanting I have to be on my toes all the time, if I play well then I can wipe out the mobs quickly before they get to hit back, and I have to work to keep myself alive. But that's the whole FUN!
Ice/kin works well for me. Mez + good ST-dmg + a bit of aoe. And, of course, slows.