Best Solo Class?

Hard to say, but currently High Wizard pretty much dominates everything in this game. They can deal millions damage at ease, while not having a 2s equip at all, at the same time using a resist set. It's only High Wizard. Throughout Parul and Slebinia, High Wizard alone is the meta one.

Other classes are still powerful, but High Wizard simply has too much of a gap between them. Please mind that this is pretty biased from myself, so correct me if anything is wrong:

Paladin is... average. If you're not focusing on total defence then you're just a tryhard trying to scale yourself with other dps classes, only to fail.

Gladiator is great to be honest. Valkyrie build is decent and autoatk build is still goated.

Beast Knight is.. idk. A little inferior compared to Gladiator. But bleed damage is buffed, so i guess they're better now.

Assassin is great. You can still distribute your offence into defence and you're still good to go.

Sniper is one of the closest ones to reach High Wizards' overpowered level. Crazy autoatk & skill spam, also the scarecrows are just handy. With immortal set you're.. well.. immortal.

Summoner is great, only if you know how to use it. Since its arguably more complex to master. Not many excels in this class, but if you know what to do, its pretty damn op.

High Wizard is High Wizard.

Enchanter is arguably still on its nerfed phase. So don't expect much from this class.

Necromancer is tricky to play, but even if its not one of the strongest ones its still pretty fun to play.

Bishop is, and has always been, great. Any nerf towards this class so far doesn't hinder the gameplay too much.

Monk is also one of the closest ones to reach High Wizard's strength. You can just Geo until its done or break your screen with Shell Breaks.

Servant is.. who the hell uses it? Just kidding, they're pretty useful for parties and especially PTAs. Just don't be a solo player.

Ninja is just decent, thats it. Nothing special. I main Ninja and they're just above average compared to other classes.

Samurai is.. honestly idk about Samurai like almost at all. But i think they're comparable to Beast Knights or even Gladiators.

Minstrel is not great for solo, yes you can but it won't do well compared to other classes. So find parties and don't be alone.

Alchemist is very important in party plays. Sure you can solo with your resist set, but you'll find yourself more fun to play with party as your ailments are totally goated.

From a purely solo perspective, out of your choices; Monk has the best solo capabilities (if you are an auto-attacking version). Based on your sets of equipment (like Dragon's Claw III, Dragon Mail, Huge Cherry Blossom and Soul Sucker Fang etc.), Monks have a chance to trigger ‘autoskills’ that can heal them on attack or defence. Hence Monks have very good self-sustaining healing potential which gives them their solo capabilities. While your survivability is very high, your damage output is lower compared to Gladiators and especially Assassins so while you may solo a lot of stuff, your time to kill bosses and mobs is slow which leads to less efficient farming. Hence auto-attacking Monks are not invited into boss farming since they don’t offer anything to the table apart from stable subpar DPS.

I should probably mention I'm not opposed to other classes if they would fit my criteria,you seem pretty knowledgeable so I appreciate any advice you can give me.

If your goal is to solo farm all of your items, then perhaps High Wizard or Assassins will suit you then as they have the quickest time to kill bosses.

High wizards, while usually found in end-game boss farming, can still comfortably ‘one-shot’ a lot of bosses (even from Episode 6) even if they don’t have the best of equipment. By one-shot, I mean performing a combo that ends in killing the boss in one final blow, thus skipping certain boss stages. Unlike assassins, this combo can be kinda complicated and time-consuming to pull off and you need to be level 360 in order to obtain the skills responsible for High Wizards massive damage output.

In contrast, Assassins can usually kill the earlier bosses in a couple of backstabs or do a higher damaging but more time consuming combos for the higher level bosses. The main advantage Assassins have over High Wizards is that you unlock your signature skill straight away at level 140. However, due to Assassin’s lack of Area of Effect skills, they are less suited to mob farming and in general they are very hard to level up with and make spina initially so you may face a wall in progression from early to mid-game assassin gear (but to be honest the same applies to high wizards too).

In summary, Assassins in general have faster (and safer) time to kills (for earlier game bosses) than any other classes and is highly suitable for solo and less suitable for party play. But High Wizards are better for the real endgame bosses (like Sauro or the series of level 450 bosses), while also having the option to farm mobs (therefore more flexible than assassin). They are also suitable for solo but more optimal for party play.

P.S - as newer endgame level 450 bosses get released, more pieces of equipment are becoming X-trade. They are usually hit or miss equipment, but some have become staples for endgame players. Thus, further down your career, you can’t really avoid party play if you really want to collect ‘any’ piece of equipment

Evasion is a very overrated feature especially after episode 6. Sure it helps early game, but you will have a low consistency of evading a boss enough to kill it unscathed for endgame bosses. When you do take a hit, it will hurt a lot especially for assassins and more than likely leading to you being one-shotted. Also High Wizards completely max out their VIT whereas Assassins only add a bit of VIT thus there is a clear survivability difference.

But regardless of Assassins survivability, you ‘should’ still be able to complete MQ completely solo. However, I have heard that if you don’t care about over-capping (completing MQ only after you already reached the max level cap), one easy way for you to complete your MQ straight away (especially if you don’t have any equipment) is to become an apprentice Summoner. They have the ability to summon Baby Wolves which can easily be used to complete MQ. Again, I have only heard about this so I don’t know how practical it is. Also just make sure you don’t irreversibly convert into a full summoner; STAY AS AN APPRENTICE.

For what you want to achieve, Assassins achieving faster time to kills on earlier bosses is still better than monks slowly killing any boss in the game. Therefore you will get equipments faster than monks. Also, since these one-shotting classes can skip boss stages, you can worry less about being stunned, having ailments dealt to you or having your HP and your MP depleted since you just one-shotted the boss and it’s already dead so you are almost never in a vulnerable position to be killed. Whereas Monks and other classes have to endure all of that during each boss fight.

Assassins have a significant damage drop off after their combo is done or after their boss stun ends. High wizards just deal such overwhelming damage that still out-DPS’s assassins despite having longer combos. Hence Assassins struggle to keep up their DPS even against other classes in the same scenario.

At lower lvl bosses I wouldn't say monk is slow but they use auto attack with gear with life steal hp so their survival is a lot better can look up cat and bear on youtube. For sin they can stun enemies for 10 seconds which just means you trying to deal as much damage before those 10 seconds are up.

My only concern is how does assassin do against late game bosses where evasion doesn't work and you can't one shot in those 10 seconds? Is there a point in the long run where monk is gonna become more consistent?