Monk or Ranger. Monk inside, Ranger outside. Monk has higher mitigation and DPS, Ranger has utility.
Monks don't need gear except HP, which will take some time to acquire. As far as any AC a lot of monk's mitigation is natural but AC comes from pretty much any and all items. Wu's at this point is super cheap. Iksar monks have AC bonus and a few extra quests that are bonuses. As far as weapons, ANY weapon of which many are cheap, are great for decent DPS as a monk.
Both classes can go from 1 to 60 soloing. Downtime for the monk is probably shorter than the ranger.
Rangers can create pretty much their entire gearset SOLO using handcrafted bullshit bought from merchants or from farming hides. There are a large number of weapon and armor quests as well. I bowkited or small-grouped many of the Ivy Etched pieces during P99 classic in the 20s-30s range, even when facing higher level mobs. Hell, if you pick Ranger I'll even help you quest that stuff and some weapons just for the nostalgia, even though they might be crap in comparison nowadays.
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