Balance issue? Or am I missing something?

My CR and equipment CR are both 103. In the Metropolis Battlezone a CR 96 Sinestro Corps Tormentor will knock me out before I can get him below 75% health every time. But if I go to the Historic District, the CR 111 Star Sapphires can’t even touch me. What's going on here?

The revamp gift that keeps on giving.

Interestingly, now that I’m CR 105 and doing the missions that involve that area, the Star Sapphires seem a lot tougher...

i had a guess maybe the higher cr we go the older contents will somehow match up to our current strength.

The lv96 npcs are alert enemies meant for 4 players, the lv111 npcs are meant for solo players.

Thank you for having common sense instead of being so quick to blame the revamp

Instance (alert) enemies in an open world zone?

In T4 and T5 most of the alerts have open world segments.

Yes, this is nothing new.

Working as intended But like people said its that one T4 alert that has open world enemies. Cause its really an op. Wayward souls.