Coming back and want to play an ENC almost 100% solo, any tips?

[DrKvothe]

Just find a partner who isn't dumb before lvl 12. You can pull/cc. Get hit once so your animation goes in, let your partner do the rest of the killing, and you focus on using lull/mez/fear to fight one mob at a time.

You're going to either lose half your exp to downtime or half your exp to your pet, so you might as well partner up and split the exp with a buddy instead.