While I agree that makes sense normally, this is a case of a player whose highest class is 18 and who can't do any appreciable damage to a level 50 mob (I probably only got him with the Bio, which can't miss anyway, and maybe the Energy Drain I used) getting full marks for an elite mob, so I dunno if you could really call it "helping" a party to down an elite mob. Still, if it's working as intended then I shall -quite- happily regard the rewards I got as a reward for discovering it first.