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I see a lot of assumptions and guesswork, but can anyone confirm (with a source) the differences between HP/Shield/Barrier pools, and the damage output modifiers applied in each separate challenge? BioWare is very vague when it comes to concrete numbers of damage, health, exact modifier values or anything for that matter.
Mathematics preferred for theorycrafting. Thanks!
BRONZE Stats(Category="GethPrime", CategoryData=((StatName="MaxHealth",StatRange=(X=5000.0f,Y=7500.0f)),(StatName="MaxShields",StatRange=(X=3500.0f,Y=5250.0f)),(StatName="ShieldDrone_MaxHealth",StatRange=(X=300.0f,Y=375.0f)),(StatName="Turret_MaxHealth",StatRange=(X=250.0f,Y=325.0f))
GOLD Stats(Category="GethPrime", CategoryData=((StatName="MaxHealth",StatRange=(X=11250.0f,Y=16875.0f)),(StatName="MaxShields",StatRange=(X=7875.0f,Y=11812.0f)),(StatName="ShieldDrone_MaxHealth",StatRange=(X=300.0f,Y=375.0f)),(StatName="Turret_MaxHealth",StatRange=(X=250.0f,Y=325.0f))
Every other stat is the same, for how much the shield drone heals and how often, how often drone and turret spawn, etc...
I am unsure for the difference between X stats and Y stats, my best guess is the Y stats is when it is "target" in the select missions to kill the 4 targets, because they are always harder to kill.
If want more information or on a specific monster leave a comment and I can update for that specific monster, but those numbers should be true for every monster. Which is about a 50% increase in health/shields per difficulty level.
Each multiplayer difficulty level increases enemies' health and defenses by 50%. You can see that reflected by numbers NoNameNeeded provided: say, Prime's maxshields "Y" is 11812 on gold, which is 1.5*1.5=2.25 times lower than on bronze (and indeed, 5250*2.25=11812.5). Assuming that .5 is rounded down, it is a precise match. Other numbers follow the pattern as well. Perhaps there are some exceptions to this, but i don't think there are many, if any at all.
However, HP/Shield/Barrier is not all there is to enemies' survivalability; it would be a mistake to think that enemies are exactly 50% more "fat" per each difficulty increase in multiplayer. Because, apart from increased health and defenses, higher difficulty enemies also get other parameters improved: shield/barrier regeneration times, shield/barrier damage gate, armor's potency (mentioned here on the Bioware forums among some other features also related to this question).
As one can easily see, all these "other" boosts are not based on +50%-extra-per-difficulty pattern: some are raising slower than that, while armor's potency increases faster than that.
I can't find any source, but i remember reading something about enemies having less "reaction time" in higher difficulties, too. Please don't quote me on that though...
I don't have any source nor any precise number on this one. However, I am pretty sure that (at least majority of) enemies get higher damage in higher difficulties. Comparing how my krogan battlemasters are able to run silver games without major problems while not using any +shield equipment, but get fried on gold trying to do very same things if I am not using at least level 2 cyclonic modulator (which provides +60% to his barrier), I'd say that damage of (at least majority of) enemies is boosted by about 50% per difficulty as well. Additional (more than extra 50%) damage is received per second (average) in practice, of course, due to higher number of enemies in average gold-match combat situation.
