Best solo melee class?

[Keebz]

I've done SK, Monk and Ranger and am working on Paladin.

Ranger is great outdoors. Harmony is busted, having snare and root rules and you can now fear kite forever. Indoors it's a bit more tenuous, but you can animal lull at least. 40's you start to find it rough going toe to toe.

Monk you just lol facetank everything and FD / sneak make it easy enough to get around, if a little more involved. Definitely grab some invis rings and make sure to learn BW for when it matters 50+. Not being able to do anything about common stuff like casters and runners is annoying, but you can work around this. 50+ having to reset when something trivial goes wrong can be draining.

SK you are like monk with much worse dps, but you get CoS to get everywhere. Snare + FD makes spliting automatic, if more time consuming than lull. Fear kiting means you can go for hours nonstop. In some of the level ranges maxing your pet and torching it provide a significant dps boost. Throwing an exe axe on there can be nice as well. Being a large race (esp. one with regen) means your stats are near capped with EC gear. Your dps peters off 50+ but the pet, dots, life taps and good stats make it respectable. DS helps.

Paladin—I'm still working on this one—but lull, root and heals/buffs are clutch. With high CHA lulling is much more time efficient and straight forward than the FD split rigamarole. And when you get extras, instead of resetting, you can just root one at a time and work your way through. LoH helps when this happens. So far stun is OK at stopping spells. I think it will be much more impactful for stopping long but powerful spells like CH when I get there. Without a pet and with elf stats, your dps is trash. I wish I had access to DS, but cheesing pots isn't my goal with this character so I'll have to wait for ring 8. I suspect the DW BP is going to a game changer, but I'm taking my time on the leveling grind. All and all it reminds me of ranger indoors, but with good spells and better AC.

All of the above will work, but I enjoy the knights the most. My monk was mostly face rolling warrior mobs (which I've already done 2x on my warriors) while the spells of the hybrids add more variety. YMMV.