A solo warrior? Well, either you need a full suit of raid gear and AC augs and another thousand AA, or you need to forget setting foot into any content past SOD without boxing. Sure, you could handle *a* mob from the newer shit. If its standing there alone and doesn't run.
When I was messing around during underfoot the group gear was exactly good enough to kill about 3/4ths of the named and finish the progression missions only as long as I was never fighting more than one mob at a time. war/monk/sham. In SOD I had a wizard instead of the monk but in UF it became impossible to do anything if I couldn't pull singles. At the time a solo mage could do better than my 3 box. Mobs that proc dds or even AOE for 40k - what fucking crackhead was designing that shit? Hi, I quad and flurry for 10k and if you ever drop below 80% of your HP, my proc will one shot you. Sounds legit.
Underfoot was essentially one giant FUCK YOU to the players from the designers who were sick of all that bullshit about how ez-mode EQ was and how it was this impossible meatgrinder of death during classic where everything could kill you in two rounds. Which of course is a complete load of horseshit but it was the players who were insisting on it. Its the players who insisted that every individual mob should take over two minutes to die and do so much damage that you can barely survive tanking one. Its this whole anti-WoW and classic-eq-was-impossible-mode mindset that gave you such a string of shit expansions that hardly anyone actually played through when it was current.
I guess the curve flattened out post UF but the damage was done, holy shit, HP fucking tripled from SOD to UF and mobs went from topping out at 7k in SOD to 12k in an expansion that didn't even give you more levels. They'd have had to really flatten things out to recover from that nonsense.
I know, sorry. I was just totally baffled by the stupidity that was UF. Even if I was able to get through it, I'd call it the most assheaded direction EQ ever took. "Fighting the AOW was fun, lets make EVERY mob like that!"
Meanwhile, on progression, tanking 20 mobs at a time...