well once again we have only solo or heroic instances to finish sig quest line .i dont play with a group and cant play with the 2 family members who play ,why cant they have advanced solo so we both can do them together.so this may be the end of eq2 for me
I figure its they either don't care what you want, not even enough to answer you...or they figure that they went to school for game development so you don't really want what you're asking for. AND since they have ignored the folks that asked for what you are asking for this long, you are now in the minority and your opinion means nothing as the others have already moved on to other games.
2 players can still go in 'Solo' tagged zones - or at least they could in the past. Give it a try and let me know if that's changed.
I play with my brother and my mom myself, what we had to start doing once they added the Solo dungeons for progression is simply have the one who plays the tank go with both people at different times, which ofc requires some patience since I was maining a Swash at the time. What we ended up doing in-between was just killing mobs or harvesting. Luckily the reset timer on Solos is relatively short. Sadly there's no real work around.
Two characters can run the solos. This is either 1 player and 1 merc, or 2 players. If you have 3 players you have to do the heroic. You could try 3 players and 3 mercs to fill out the group, but mercs are not very effective in group content.
Does the zone even count a merc as a group member? from what I have seen the mercs are flattened as fast as you wearing no armor.