I'm level 15 and get 2 shot by the skeletons as I try to run past them.

I use decent gear and by that I don't mean the most expensive, including dev dragon. If this event was set up to be profitable for only those equipped with dev dragon, or at least those op 'pure stat' weapons, then it's really unfair and disadvantageous for the new players. As for myself, I created a fresh character to farm this event for my first time after getting back to PL. It's no fun when I'm barely making 10k gold from bronze tier when I dedicated time to reach 19k pts on a low level character.

I figured the mob difficulty would scale down, depending on the character's level. I guess it has, but only if the character uses dev dragon.