Solo Leveling a Huntress

I was playing in a 3-man group last night: Squire, Huntress, and Monk. We set up the same defenses on all 3 entrance points to the map. Squire walls with Huntress proximity/inferno traps in front, and whatever auras the Monk felt like using (not important to this example).

When the waves came, each of us defended one section. The Squire and Huntress spent most of their time repairing defenses (especially the Huntress's traps, which replenishes the quantity), and the Monk spent all his time fighting the enemies. The end result was that the Monk had the most kills, but let all his defenses die and leaked enemies through to the crystal.

The Huntress and Squire, by comparison, had no trouble holding off all the enemies, and the Squire even held off the Ogre. The Monk was not a team player, and leaked because he didn't repair the Huntress traps. The Squire kept the Huntress traps replenished and didn't even break a sweat.

tl;dr: The key to playing Huntress effectively is to have your teammates repair your traps. I'm pretty sure that's the crux of it.

The quality of the loot dropped in a map is dependent on these things:

• The map in question
• The difficulty you chose for the map
• What wave it was when the loot dropped

Loot quality does not vary based on players. However, more loot drops during co-op because you are fighting and killing more mobs. Because of the fact that you are killing more mobs and seeing more loot, it will seem as though there is more variety. In actuality, you're seeing the same variety (percentage chance of drop for each quality), but you're seeing more of it.