Are there meant to be this many mobs for this event? There were about 5 ppl doing the event so it cant be a scale up. They were mostly veterans and a champion or two.
It’s been that way since the September feature patch or thereabouts. Ignore the event – it’s apparently what ANET does as well. The event for re-taking the town is at a more more sensible difficulty level, IIRC.
The March 16th patch notes claimed that this was addressed. However, as can be seen in this screenshot from the 16th, this is not the case. With ~6 players, we got around 3 champions and innumerable vets/elites. The catapults don’t do enough damage to kill even vets in less than 4 direct hits or so. I put several shots into the stampede to result in no kills. I like difficult defense events, but this is silly.
