The "Current level" setting has always had some variability in it, where you could face enemies as low as -2 (green minions, blue LTs, white bosses) and as high as +1 (yellow minions, orange LTs, red bosses). Sounds like you were just fighting enemies at the high point of the range.
Don't think of it as setting the level of your enemies. Think of it as modifying your perceived level, just as the teammates option modifies your perceived team size.
It used to be that missions would either start lower and progress to higher levels, or the opposite. I remember quite a few "frontloaded" missions where I'd start out frustrated facing really tough enemies and by the end of the mission I'd be breezing through them barely stopping.
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You're essentially on Tenacious with no bosses or AVs. It should not be any harder for you than it was before, but if it is, it's likely due to random chance. (Because the levels vary through the mission as the previous poster said)
You might try -1 levels, and a team size of 3 or 4. That should make the foes weaker, but give you more of them to deal with at a time. Your problem doesn't seem to be level, because you were fine on Heroic, but that there was more of them on Tenacious. So reducing their level should give you back the challenge without overwhelming you.
Alternately, try +1 levels, and stay with a team size of 1. Tenacious was not always easier than Rugged, it depended on the AT. (Controllers and Doms especially do better against smaller spawns because you can only hold a fixed number of foes at a given time)
Since you're a scrapper, most likely you'd be better off with raising your level than the team size. Unless you're an AoE heavy Scrapper... but at 16 you wouldn't be AoE heavy anyways (for example, my Stalker takes +4/x0 no problem but had trouble when I raised the team size but not the level... my Plant Dominator just did a mission set to +0/x6 easy as hell and needs to go to x8... but probably wouldnt' do well against +4s).
Then again, since you're still a lowbie you don't wanna raise the level too much, as you probably don't have decent accuracy.
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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OK, as of I16 you can "customize" spawns you face in missions. So last night I changed my profile to fight enemies at current level, equivalent of 2 heroes, no bosses and no AV. I take my still wimpy lvl 16 scrapper to his first mission with these new settings. I see yellow minions and orange lieutenants. Is this right? I was excited about this change because in the old system (pre-I16), the heroic setting was getting comically easy but tenacious led to too many deaths for me. Help?