yes we can solo and well, but it takes a very different character build to solo well than a pure raid/group wis spammer.
i see many healers who have sky high wis but not much else. these people cannot solo.
soloing, requires many of the principles of raiding.
1) planning, you must plan your character, your zone, the mobs you want, etc
2) change of gear. i carry 3 sets, of most slot items. interchanging depending on the mob and type of area. it helps me balance my stats, and be able to kill quickly and efficiently
3)skills. adept 1 wont cut it as a soloer, well not if you want any speed. adept 3 is what you should aim for, itll give you more bang for your buck, and your on a budget.
as an inquis we have a few thing in our favour for soloing.
1) plate, especially vanguard plate, gives us very very good mit for a non tank class. also plate generally comes with sta boosts amongst other things, combined with our class buffs, gives us a decent health pool.
2) reactives. combined with plate = very good healing.
3) our debuffs. our debuffs allow you to:
a) lower the mitigation of the mob
b) weaken the mobs damage (str+int)
c) lower the melee skills used by the mob to hurt you
d) do damage when ever the mob attacks you
e) damage the mob when they use a beneficial skill
ok so pretty much nerf the mob big time. i picked up adept 1 of a skill at 64 which decreases the str and int (forgot name doh) it reduces it by 61. 61 thats alot, and a big difference. and thats only adept one.
4) our "nukes" ok its not fusion, however priest heroic opertunities are pretty powerfull. combined with DoTs and out nukes we have some decent damage potential, more than enough to solo with any how.
soloing just requires a totally different mindset to grouping. you try and balance your stats rather than spam wis in a group. and remember you will run out of power at some point, have at least a fair Str if you plan to solo, loosing a war of attrition to that final green looks bad.
to practise, join a group with 2 healers. negociate to be back up healer and then switch gear to max out your int/str. try and parse as high as possible, while maintaining a reactive on the tank. then when you find a pattern you can go out and try it your self.
last night i grouped in SoS with a very good group. SK(or pally) zerker dirge necro inquis mystic. we were there for ages just slaying everything in our path, we went down then up all over. due to lag and a LD we had 2 deaths big deal. but was a highly rewarding group. the mystics wards were keeping the crusader up and i only needed to step in when things got mental. so i switched out to xegonite van plate my royal great flail str dolls etc etc, got a high str and went hitting. i turned what would have been a nearly useless back up healer into a damage contributor and felt usefull rather than sitting back and getting bord.
experimentation is all thats needed