I would suggest bard if you can stand the constant switching of songs (you need small macros for it). Bards don't need to swarm kite at all, the bard ability kit is so versatile that you have many options to solo.
What follows assumes no swarm kiting.
At low levels you are basically just another melee character that happens to have some kind of SOW and some kind of heal, pretty usefull. Those 2 basic abilities are there at level 6. You can keep leveling like that until the late 20ties when your golden levels arrive. At 23 you get a snare/slow combination song, at 26 you get a fear (those together enable fear kiting) and at 27 you get your first charm. Bard charm is really great, because you can charm most mobs (like a chanter) but unlike a chanter you will have a snare and a heal... and you are wearing plate armor! So charm soloing with a bard is a lot safer. And if things do get bad you usually can just run away.
At 28 you will get single target mez. With that you basically have the full bard toolkit. Later on you will get fantastic dots, opening up another way to solo (dot fear kiting).
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