This event is on Beta now and I encourage everyone to go check it out. We feel our x2 content is lacking and we wish we could do substantially more. We do not feel that an x2 format is silly. The bottom line was we wanted to give as many people access to it at that level without making it seem silly. The challenge x2 is not really stupendously harder, or at least that isn’t the intention, but it will lend some better rewards to those who have done the work and geared up to this level of damage. So we made a relatively easy x2 and a challenge x2. Sure, we could have made it a 6 man, but that seemed less epic for the content. Limiting this to x4 raiders seemed unfair.

It is the Ages End prophecy and the end of the most important story line in EverQuest II to date. We opted to make this an x2 because we want to give a lot broader amount of people access to it.

EQ2 Lead Designer Kyle “ Kander” Vallee took to the forums to give the thinking behind why Age’s End: The Final Chapter is a x2 (12 person) raid and to encourage players to playtest the content: Others are incredulous that it will not be a difficult 24-person raid. Some players are upset at the announcement that the Age’s End prophecy, which has dominated EverQuest II’s storyline for almost a decade, will not be directly experienced by solo players. When nobody is happy, that means you’ve reached a successful compromise, right?

Eq2 the means to an end