the day before yesterday, I played for a good while, killing my routine stuff in ferrot, and harvesting, making a nice buck. Then that anual update comes like it does every morning here I suppose and suddeenly a grp of lv 30's beat my lv 40 wizard sensless. the grp didnt have any arrows down nor any up. Now I know im a wizard and we are not supposed to tank, but i still developed my own stratage at tanking and even went the extra mile to get myself 100 strength, even though i have to upgrade my armour to 40 its all legendary. My question is is anyone noticing this? i used to take hits for around 69 to the casual 102. Now 10 lvs below are hitting for 150 200. One of those single 1 arrow up actually nailed me for 500!!!
I havn't been in an encounter since LU14 so I can't confirm. However, I have developed tactics for groups of 3 mobs 7-10 lvls below me, so I am very interested in any confirmations on this.
