Physical dmg buff meant for mobs?

Rip-Rip in onslaught last night after patch....got raped/insta gibbed with 17k armour in a pact of "allies deal substantial dmg"...never had previous problems..long story short...figured it was just bad luck jumping in a bad situation.

So this morning im re-rolling....and almost died to Hillock......didn't think much of it....then not far later got raped by grand daddy crab....wasn't even expecting to have a problem with him........

So whatev...but ina nutshell I am coming to the conclusion that the physical dmg buff was across the board-- characters/mobs....only thing to explain it really. So was this meant to be? Only asking cause I might need to re-think my "in yo face play/build styles"

dunno if its bug or its ment to be this way, but im currently in mercilles act2 and with 3k armor (6k with molten shell) + 4power charges ( yes i got them most of the time im making discharger ) im getting TOTALY destroyed by simple skeleton archers, where they 2-3hit my molten shoell and hit me for roughly 250-300dmg each shot.
I remember monster dmg being nerfed in few updates back, but i cant remember such unequivalent monster psyhical dmg ever. And its about psyhical dmg only not elemental.

Currently have two characters in onslaught, one grinding normal docks, the other merciless fellshrine and even though i might be imagining it: yeah, it kind of feels like (especially archer) damage went up a bit across the board after the patch. Just had a fairly close call involving 4-5 archers in fellshrine that managed to chew through 2k ES with roughly one volley (granted, they always were rather annoying for armor-less characters, but either they had a major crit-streak or somethibng changed) - when it comes to the one in normal... hard to say, but i don't think those phase runners and archers hit quite as hard yesterday?

well, also saw at least two folks in global chat mention similar issues, so unless those two were you i'd say something might have changed.

oh maybe that's why I just got destroyed a half dozen times in 2 areas

thought it was me
feel a little better now

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/438242
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/438333
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/438550

etc etc...

so yes ggg are trolling melee again

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lolozori wrote:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/438242
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/438333
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/438550

etc etc...

so yes ggg are trolling melee again

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imho unintentional physical dmg buff on mobs, prolly something to do with new flat dmg scaling.
Physical dmg output on monsters from higher difficulties is absurd. Sometimes they it for nothing, sometimes for 1/3 of life pool...