Level 40's in Manticore TF

We ran into a group of 5 level 40 Paragon Protector Elite's in the 3rd mission of Manticore's TF. After a tactical retreat... to the hospital... we managed to separate and conquer. Thank goodness I decided to shift the star to the level 41 before we started. We weren't 7 levels below them, only 5.

Anyway, heads up that bug is still around. I was under the impression it had been fixed.

Yeah, there were a couple other threads about it after the last patch as well. Even if today's patch was supposed to fix it.. remember.. we were reverted back this afternoon, so there hasn't actually been any recent changes.

On a side note, I like the lvl 40 PPEs.. it at least makes for SOME challenge with all the -1 TFs we have to run. rofl.

I was wondering why there were level 34 (blue-con) minions all over the place. I thought the -1 bug only happened on level 50 TF's. So they keep us from using the challenge setting and locked us all in at -1? That's too funny and a bit sad. I was disappointed when we walked in the first mission and saw a sea of blues.

Our little group of 33rd and 32nd levels SSK'd to 35 could take out the PPE's one at a time but 5 at once was overwhelming. We did manage to take down 2 of them before we wiped and we lost mainly because the empath froze... you could tell he was map served from his repeating animation. Everyone lost hit points rapidly after that and by the time he apparently freed-up he was dead and we all quickly followed. But it was quite a sense of accomplishment when we went back and defeated the final 3.

This bug has been broken and fixed and broken again at least 3 times. It appears to be SOP for these knuckleheads.

Also running into level 40 PPEs in level 34-35 Crey missions OTHER than the Manti TF today. One of these was Doctor's Ally. We bugged it, would be interested in hearing if it's happening to others.

SIDENOTE:

Checking the foes currently available in AE, it appears that the Elite PP's are only available as lvl 46-54 and 40-54, which is why we are seeing them as lvl 40. They can't spawn any lower than that.

So either: PPE are not supposed to be in that TF at all, or their minimum level was raised.