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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7219899" data-attributes="member: 996">Leveling a monster down a full Tier in the MB can leave a few nasty things in it.  For instance, Vulnerabilities & Resistance and ongoing damage tend to ballpark around 5/Tier, so if you take 13th level monster down to 8, you might want to knock down it's Resist 15 or it's ongoing/10 a bit.  Similarly, crits scale with Tier, and MB parentheticals showing crit damage are just text, they won't be modified when you level down the monster, so you'll want to re-calculate max damage on the crit, and reduce the number of additional dice by have for Paragon->Heroic.  Now, I'd also like to touch on something I like to do when leveling down monsters: shifting their secondary role to keep their total exp value the same.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  It helps me feel like it's "still the same monster."  Obviously, of course, it doesn't work for Solos.  But if you level a Standard down 4 or 5 levels, and change it to an Elite, you'll notice MB fills in the same (or about the same) exp value.  5 more, and make it a Solo, should still be about the same exp.  If you do like that idea, you should also add some powers and maybe a trait to make it more challenging when outnumbered.  A minor action attack or reaction for an Elite, an action-preservation trait or power on top of that for a Solo.  A high-damage or AE Encounter can also be a nice thing to add some punch to an Elite or Solo and send the message that it's a big threat.</blockquote>

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