Is it just me, or does Red High seem to employ Rubberband difficulty?

I'll take more sample runs then and check. At the moment though, having crappier gear doesn't seem to cripple me that much from completing runs. Maybe having a stronger range gives the enemies slightly more HP, maybe it doesn't. I'll try and find out though since I'm pretty much using this event to cap my Brawler, so it's Red Leaf High everytime I log on.

Easiest way though is if I were to borrow STR gear from a guildie/alliance member in Bellocan, given having 0 +STR% gear and having at least +100% STR should make things noticeable enough to blatantly declare if Red Leaf High does a soft rubber-band difficulty scaling or not.