I did the gith patrol fight prior to patch #4 a few times and it was tough but doable.

After patch #4 my team got literally wiped before my first action, several times. It's the combination of raw damage, surge and sleep. My team is lvl4 druid, Lae'Zel, Shadowheart and Wyll.

Please spare me the "it was laughably easy for me" lines. I can imagine that with a lot of luck or using some exploit it's somehow doable. But if the team is dead before you can do your first move, there are really limited options.

They put a lady to warn the player on the bridge. Also, the quest used to be really buggy at that point. Could it be that they made the fight harder as some sort of dead-end until they opened up the content past this area?