Well, that was weird, re: oddly OP enemy. (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 22:58 (3516 days ago) @ ShadowOfTheVoid

I hopped on earlier today to work on some bounties. I had one left over from yesterday where I had to kill 10 Fallen ultras or majors, but I only needed to kill one more. Since there was a public event about to happen at the Cosmodrome's Forgotten Shore area, I hurried up there. While waiting for the event, I remembered that there's an yellow-bar Vandal accompanied by a Shank that spawns in a cave near the outlet leading to the Grottoes. He's only a level 8, and usually goes down really easily even for a yellow-bar, but for some reason he took a level in badass today. He took about three or four magazines from my Suros Regime, a couple of grenades, a knife to the face, and a dozen blasts from my 220+ attack power fusion rifle before he finally bit the dust. His little plasma blaster thingy was also dealing some serious pain, knocking me down into the red after only like three hits. It's like I was fighting a level 28 yellow-bar instead of a level 8 one. I backed off to check my gear and make sure everything on my end was square, so it had to be him. Fortunately I killed him in time to participate in the public event. I wonder if it was a glitch or some other error that happened when he spawned.

So, has anyone else encountered an enemy far more resilient and powerful than his rank suggested?

Funnily enough, I ran into this same exact guy today and thought the same thing, except it didn't feel like his weapon had any undue power, I was able to take a good 15-20 hits without dying, I think; I have been increasing my defense like crazy lately though.