Someone mentioned, I believe in my experiment thread, that saving essentials for last in a clear can mitigate some of the scaling issues - that completing the essentials will cause scaling to increase in the non-essentials.
Just now, I was working through my third clear of Oscorp sub 2, and I noticed something related to that. I had noticed previously that, yes, scaling on the non-essential nodes increases after completing the essentials. Not all of my nodes had fully refreshed, though, so I was looking at the ones still on a timer to see how many points I might have left in the sub before my final grind.
Just looking at the essentials caused my Overwatch scaling to go from 189x3 to 201x3. I know, because I had clicked on Overwatch to complete it, seen that the timer wasn’t done yet, and then went to look at the essentials.
So, I guess, in addition to the above (useful) advice not to do essentials until you’ve completed your clear of non-essentials, don’t even look at essentials until you’re ready to tackle them?
Edit to thread name to differentiate between the other scaling threads