If you can learn how to aoe kite on the bard you will have no trouble soloing, even naked. At higher levels bards bring a lot to the table such as kiting, pulling, mana regen for caster/cleric groups, stacking resists for specific encounters, and have little to no down time. If you are considering playing up a hybrid I'd suggest bard.
Any caster/priest you play is going to have down time. Chanters probably have the least downtime once you learn charm solo, and shamans/necros after that.
IMO the biggest deciding factor when chosing a class is: What do you want your end game to be? what are your goals, and what is your play style?
Groups? Raids? Solo farm? Once you figure that out take a serious look at what your list of classes does in those situations and decide if that is what you really want to do.
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