How many stars of difficulty are you rolling with on your L10 leves?

Admittedly my own experience probably isn't very helpful to you as I've basically never actually soloed in this game, I currently have a PGL27 and THM22 I've gotten solely in parties (I've barely done DoM/DoW leves at all on this character, actually.)

From what I've heard and read, though, you -should- be able to survive single-star Drybone leves. Try 3- or 4-starring level 1 leves, see if those are any easier or give you decent XP?