Soldier to 24

Is there a build or reference to a posting that I can see for leveling a Soldier to 24? Just want to see what is recommended for someone who is planning on soloing before deciding on Bane or Crab.

Thanks

1 - SINGLE SHOT
1 - WOLF ARMOR
2 - BURST
4 - COMBAT: DEFENSIVE (SLOT A LEVEL 10 KISMET UNIQUE AT 7, IF POSSIBLE)
6 - ASSAULT
8 - HEAVY BURST
10- TT: MANEUVERS
12- VENOM GRENADE
14- SWIFT/HURDLE
16- TT: ASSAULT
18- HEALTH
20- STAMINA
22- TT: LEADERSHIP
24- FORTIFICATION

Slot heavy on end reducers to make your life easy early on. The two assaults will be providing you (and your team) a significant amount of damage at these low levels. TT:M is a no-brainer. You will mainly be leading with Venom Grenade followed by Heavy Burst then Single Shot/Burst to pick off anything else. Getting to 24 with this build shouldn't give you many problems.

The 22 and 24 spot you can play around with. If you're doing alright in terms of hit rolls, then swap out TT:L for Mental Training. Eventually, you'll want to take TT:L though.

Dunno about builds (I'm not into that Mids stuff...) but I think I can offer some advice:

1) Tactical Training: Manuevers. Take it, use it, love it. If you don't pick it up at level 10, go turn yourself over to Mako. And call him "fish face". You'll get what you deserve.

2) Wide Area Web Grenade is an incredibly useful tool for soloing. It can get you in trouble on teams, if you pay attention you should know what opening with an AoE Immobilize is considered around here. However, solo you are getting all the aggro anyway, so you might as well lock them down before they can come at you. On a team you can always wait until the team has grabbed all the aggro first.

3) I've found that the melee attacks are risky to use, but if you take both of them they can be enough to finish off a foe quickly. The best strategy, of course, is WAWG, followed by Venom Grenade, followed by Heavy Burst. Then you can start mopping up what is still standing. Again, on a team you'll want to wait until someone else grabs aggro first, but then go to town.

4) Be ready to run, and use your mobility. You've got some melee attacks, but think like a Blapper. While that 10% Def will keep you alive a little bit more than a Blaster, it's still not much compared to Fortification or the Bane's cloak and armor.

5) Of course, on a team of 4 other SoAs, that's a whole different story. Assuming they all have Manuever too, of course. In such a case, just wade into melee and go to town. Just watch for the lucky hits that get through, since that's all Def and you don't have any DDR. (But at low level you shouldn't be likely to need it. Unless you're SKing up in Cimerora)

So my advice is WAWG at 6, TT:M at 10, Venom Grenade at 12, pick up whatever attacks you can when available, and maybe something like either CT or CT:O, depending on your concept. (It's really that or pick up all three of the starting attacks)

Ohhh, right, since you're doing pre-Crab/Bane then yeah, ignore the mention of Fortification. (really though, going Crab should be obvious but that's a whole 'nother can of worms we won't open right now).

Wide Area Web Grenade is pretty nice too as mentioned. The only bummer is that it only has a 10' radius which really isn't all that big. Many people love this power though so it would be worth trying it out because having an immob is nice.

The slow on WAWG is enough to save you a ton of damage against annoying enemies like Fortunata or most bosses. Even knocked down to Lt boss types still have all thier attacks.