I know a Ranger that soloed and self found his way from 1 to 60. Has a Lupine Dagger and stuff. Clicks off every buff anyone puts on him. Probably a psychopath tbf.

No me!

also the most powerful soloable mob by pure numbers is Strong Horn, then Tantor, then whatever widdle baby mobs listed on https://wiki.project1999.com/Solo_Artist_Challenge

Pretty much that ^^

Bottom line is that if you did something that was challenging to you and you are proud of the fact that you did it then that has to be good enough for you. If I've learned anything from doing that challenge is that basically no one thinks anything you do is impressive and will almost always poke holes in how you did it so that its less of an accomplishment.

The first time i solo'd emporer chottal, i used 2 wort clicks so i could survive pyrocuror and not die to the dot. I was so excited but made the mistake of mentioning that i used some wort clicks and suddenly "oh well anyone could do it if you give em a wort pot, pffffftttt"

If you see that challenge and fill out that sheet, youre doing something right and just like Tecmos said, the people who knock anything about that are probably the ones who are mad/bad/sad.

I’m convinced the answer to this is Ixiblat Fer and the character to use is a well geared 60 Shaman with Puppet Strings, Reaper of the Dead, and a SoulFire. Prove me wrong.

I'm doing similar on my Ranger. Self-made so far soloing HGs for plat to buy gear. Have Lupine as well as Swarmcaller. Toughest solo so far at 50 has probably been seafuries rofl. Or Rapticor.
It's all relative!

lodizal, in classic vanilla its the dino in OOT

At that point, you might as well just play a cleric and give your charmed pet a tash stick and truncheon. Given enough cheese leeway, practically anything pre-velious is possible. Especially with 20 years of wiki knowledge. It just becomes a matter of how much you want to spend on consumables simply for bragging rights?

Lol, yeah, exactly this.

Those people even try to discredit by assocation too. "Oh you [did any random thing genuinely solo without help or clickies or anything] huh? Yeah well, but I read about how someone else in the SAC a year before you even made your character, who isn't even the same class or fighting the same mob, used puppet strings and soulfire one time... so clearly you're just a bad circlejerking because you SAC people have expensive unclassic broken OP clickies to carry you to automatic greatness just like I could if I had those clickies but I'm too cool to bother spending the time and effort on it"

what's the most impressive solo that ever happened, not including any aid of any kind from other characters (but including clickies etc.)