My clan and I have noticed there is a sporadic and random change in difficulty with the level 40 dark zone raid.
Description:
My team and I have raid 4 clears at the level 40 raid. Our best time being 40minutes for a clear at level 40. On our fith attempt at beating the raid, starting after the emergency maintenance on March 10th, we noticed that NPC and boss difficulty increased.
It seems NPCs are taking twice as long to down as they were the day before. Most noticably is that the jammer pulse no longer kills drones at the razorback encounter; it will take down the health to 50% and then proceed to highlight the drones as if I used a scanner pulser. We have tested using a jammer pulse on a dedicated 6 tier skill build. Prior to this difficulty increase and update on March 10th, we were able to kill drones with our jammer pulse using just a regular 6 red weapon core crit build.
I have had other friends who run the level 40 raid and also describe seeing the exact same behavior. One player informed his group will reset the raid progression at the beach until the difficulty seems to scale back to "normal". Only after they get the right difficulty they are able to proceed with the raid.
Do not misunderstand me. The level 40 raid is difficult content. We understand that, but something change with difficulty scaling start around the maintenance on March 10th.
Has anyone else noticed this? I would appreciate it if Massive devs were notified and perhaps could take a look into this?
Thank you!