Is that truly just Personal Scaling?
Could be. I know my essential nodes dropped by 10 levels each after I lost a fight in one of them.
I haven’t seen wild swings, though.
my theory is that each note has a range based on your roster and where it sits in that range is based on how you performed on it in the past. ace it and it will climb in the range, maybe to the top. wipe and it will drop. just wish some of this would be explained definitively so we understand.