[Posi 1] Shadow Arachnos Soldier Spiders Level Wrong

[ThatGuyCDude]

In the last phase of the last mission of Positron 1, the team is forced to fight a Shadow Simulacrum party summoned by the Circle of Thorns.  These copies have access to every power in the player's pool.  Unfortunately, this means an Arachnos Soldier copy has access to "Call Reinforcements".

So what's the problem?  We were running a +2 version of the TF, and the Boss was level 17.  But his summoned minions were level 20, not level 16 like the power dictates they should be.

The Arachnos Soldier spider minions need a lower minimum level so that they can be an appropriate (read: not overleveled) threat in that fight.

[SeraphimKensai]

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Edited July 20 by SeraphimKensai
Edit drinking.

[ThatGuyCDude]

Let me put it another way.  That floating problem where New Council missions were spawning inappropriately overleveled enemies?  It happened because there were mobs with nonstandard minimum levels in the level ranges of those missions.  So the game tried to scale them to the player's level, they hit their minimum and stopped, and then proceeded to mop the floor with the player.

The pets summoned by the Arachnos Soldier's "Call Reinforcements" secondary power have a minimum level of 20.  Because of the level required to take this power, this may have seemed like a non-issue in the past.  However, because of the way the doppleganger mechanics work, any pet that a player can summon needs to have a minimum level of 1 to respect the difficulty settings of low-level content that features doubles.  At the moment that's just the Positron 1 taskforce, but since the problem has revealed itself it is better to future-proof it NOW rather than trip over it again later.