Check your arcs, the 6/8 patch broke Critter Downleveling

As of the 6/8 patch, Elite Bosses and Archvillains are suddenly not spawning below their "native" level range, despite the editor claiming that they will. I found this out tonight when showing some people my level 20-25 arc, "All Consuming", only to find that the EB at the end, Adamastor, was suddenly spawning at his native level 40 instead of level 25 like he has been for the past 2 issues and made the arc unwinnable.

I figured that this may be related to an issue I heard about with people using downleveled EBs for farming purposes, but the patch notes don't say a damn thing about that or any changes to the way critters are downscaled!

If this is a stealth-fix for an exploit, it's really obnoxious for the Devs not to tell the authors who were making legitimate use of the feature.

So everybody check your arcs before you start getting any angry comments and poor ratings over something that is not your fault.

EDIT: I ran some tests and narrowed the issue down to just EBs and AVs. This must have something to do with that exploit.

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Dr. Aeon has posted an explantion here.

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Death Shamans at least are summoning zombies at level 20 regardless of what level they spawned at now. Every summoning enemy is likely doing the same.

Well, I guess I have to figure out whether Avalanche or Storm shamans are less annoying for a level 1-10 to fight... *rubs temples*

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And will downlevelled Council and 5th turn into higher level wolves?

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