Quote Originally Posted by Madnex View Post
Planning to clear this up with a couple of tests, there shouldn't be anything scaling to a higher difficulty when you use elixirs versus not using them.

Actually no, the buff has changed Nekro's scales to Undead from the simple Dragon type. Also Scorch as a mythic pet should have way less pet damage and HP hence providing quite a smaller damage reduction (this isn't justifying the lack of usefulness here, the gap shouldn't be this huge). Here's the appropriate quote from Cara:
Ahhh I see, so they changed the name of Nekro's shield.

Thanks Madnex