EverQuest II senior producer Scott Hartsman has written up
a new letter to the community on the game's official community website. Here's a bit of what he had to say:
As a result of the existing combat system, we've essentially had to make every creature red to be a challenge to a group. In addition to being too limiting in terms of what is available for any group to do in the game, it also leaves the /consider ("color con") system less than entirely meaningful. For a sufficiently advanced group, there's really just "red…and everything else."
Most of the combat system changes themselves target "you vs. a yellow or harder." You should be hearing a good many classes saying that they're noticing little difference when soloing the things they've soloed in the past, since the majority of people weren't soloing things far past their level.
EverQuest II Producer’s Letter 
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