Toons I run at +8 or more:
Fire/Rad Controller
SS/FA Brute
SS/SD Brute
SD/SS Tank
Fire/Dark Corruptor
Fire/kin Corruptor
Fire/Kin Controller
Yeah most of them actually.
I can do it with my stalker at +2/x8 or +3/x5 so. My widow could do it.
I have several toons i use when i need to kill large mobs fast. I run mostly +4/8 unless i just want some tickets, then i use +1 or +2/8.
I use: Ice/Fire tank, Elec/Shield scrapper, Spines/Invuln scrapper, Elec/Fire brute, Fire/fire blaster and Fire/Mental blaster.
I build for softcapped defense and that lets me stay in the middle of the mob even with the blasters. There are some good builds posted in the respective AT forums that you can use as a guideline and most do not require purple sets.
I have a few MMs but they are not anywhere near being ready to solo large spawns (I have too many alts 
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My latest toon is an Elec/Nin stalker that seems to have great AoE and teaming possibilites.
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I run +1/8 on my ice/fire tank and my WM/WP brute with little or no problems. It's easier on my tank since you can AFK for as long as you want.
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Originally Posted by Fusion_7
If someone is running a +8 not using a MM, I'd be curious to know what Alt they have and how they do it.
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Every scrapper and brute I have past 35 or so, a few defenders, my only corruptor... the list goes on. I do it by judicious slotting of IO sets and knowing my powers, my limits and what enemy groups will be too much to handle. My bots/traps MM is actually one of my slower x8 soloers, especially with bosses on.
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Originally Posted by Fusion_7
If someone is running a +8 not using a MM, I'd be curious to know what Alt they have and how they do it.
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If you use just SOs or low priced IOs, MM is the easiest way to solo x8.
However, if you have the INF a Scrapper or Brute can do it faster. Dominators are next, and if you can handle the mez, Controllers, Blasters, and Corrs can definitely do it at least as fast.
Every other AT can enhance their offense and defense with bonuses, while MMs get little but defensive use of recharge, and set defense helps less too.
A game is not supposed to be some kind of... place where people enjoy themselves!
My Dual Blades/Electric Armor brute regularly solos at +0/x8. Pretty sure my Crab Spider could do it too if I just spent time on her and IOing her out. But those are my only 2 level 50s.
As others have stated, many AT/powerset combinations have the capability. Also, not all MM sets are created equal. Bot/traps is well known as the most powerful combination, being able to softcap both pets and the MM. Most combinations do not allow this.
Yeah, when soloing I typically go +0/+8 as well as that's the most optimal for the best drops.
My 50 thugs/traps MM can do so easily enough (some mobs rediculously easy), but my 50 SS/WP Brute can do everything easier and faster. My 50 MA/SR Scrapper is nearly as good, but I don't have as much layered defense so I die a bit more often. My 50 SS/Inv can do it very safely against everything except Psiers, but it's slow going. Finally, my level 50 Peacebringer can...*spits drink*...sorry, joking on that last one
Honest question for Socorro: why would your SS/Inv brute be slower than your SS/WP brute?
My Dark/Dark/Soul Brute (since getting the Fighting Pool and his Cardiac Radial) runs at +3/x8.
My guides:Dark Melee/Dark Armor/Soul Mastery, Illusion Control/Kinetics/Primal Forces Mastery, Electric Armor
"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
Tips are a bit different than the pick a mission to redo over and over, or the AE farms with custom/hand picked mobs. All of my IOed toons can do 0/8 on these easy hand picked types of missions, only my most powerfull can do tips at 0/8 at a speed I like.
Of all my IOed 50s my bots/traps can do NON filtered tips at 0/8 the quickest. This means I am able to handle longbow, arachnos, DE, Malta, knives and even the shard guys that rip through def like its not there. A mob size of 8x is no different to him than a mob size of 1x, except the bosses take a little bit more time to melt.
My crab and my ill/rad are tied, the crab has killing speed but my perma PA on my rad makes him a bit safer. I turned these 2 down to 0/6 to increase tip mission completion speed.
My 50 elect/nin stalker and fortuna also does 0/6 but will have to steath past some groups that have tohit powers. Stalker has more damage, but the fort is a little more sturdy with the control powers. Both are above the soft cap, but they both lack the HPs or resists required when you have 0/8 longbow throwing -res and -def at you, and a EM warden about to 2 shot ya.
Pain in the butt toons for tips = My warshade and my fire/storm troller. These 2 rock on any team, but the lack of mez protection makes soloing tips very much like a roller coaster ride. On AE farms these 2 can easily handle 8x, but mez just makes things painful.
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+0/x8? Any alt. How? Using inspirations as they drop.
Well, I finally got my level 50 Bots/Traps MM with her Alpha Slot. I took the Cardiac Boost being that she goes though end like a drunken sailor on leave. Currently working on getting the Uncommon Boost with 33%/20% End/Dam Resist. I normally run more solo mish'es than group or TF's, thus it is a bit harder to accrue more Shard Drops on a normal toon unless you can somehow crank up the group diff level. So, using the same philosophy when trying to get purple drops, I went with the 0+/8+ settings. Running just your basic Tips mish'es, RWZ (Borea) mish'es, etc,..the Shard drop rate is much greater. I say this because I don't think there is any other Alt that can run a +8 "solo" better than a MM which can plow through foes like butter at +0/+8. My level 50 Blaster with nice AoE's has tried but death comes at a much greater rate. I wouldn't even think of running my Scrappers at this level. If someone is running a +8 not using a MM, I'd be curious to know what Alt they have and how they do it. For my Blaster, I'd phase shift into the middle of a large group, turn off phase and then activate my Nova. Boom! But then right after, I need to run and hide or pop some more blues otherwise I'm screwed.