solo monk or ranger with no funds?

[Cecily]

In my (not so) humble opinion, opening with bow kiting is humongous waste of time. Here's how I leveled up solo*:

1. Check if you need harmony.
2. Open with an arrow shot to pull for a 2x + crit maybe. If fighting self buffing casters, do nullify x2 instead.
3. Engage mob with melee. Slow mob ASAP.
4. Once slow procs, switch to DPS weapon.
5. If your HP is about to drop critically low, root the mob.
6. Once HP is critical, back off. Drop clicky DoT. Med and fire bow in between ticks. Reroot as needed.
7. When hp recovers to 50% or so, repeat 3-6.

To fight like this you need a fungi tunic, swarmcaller / woodsman (or epics). Sky cloak is probably mandatory for mid 50s+ solo.
Decent bow, Tolan's arms, Tolan's bracer HIGHLY recommended.

Buffs = Str, Skin, Coat, DS, etc. Optional DS potions. The DS (Coat + Thorns + potion) accounts for a huge chunk of your damage.
Being able to cast chloro along with a fungi is insanely helpful for this also. Regen + DS is what makes this work.

*This obviously won't work for everyone, but I simply can't imagine doing the 50+ grind without epic / fungi / sky cloak. If you have access to this type of gear and more than a little bit of misanthropy, this method will take you to 60 solo.