Quote Originally Posted by Hasrat View Post
If you're going to make that claim, try making a new character and fishing for this without completing the quests. You might just find that the difficulty does not change nearly as much as you're believing.
You're right it's not 5x, the math is pretty complex if you want to get technical. But my point is, it feels a lot worse seeing that !! pop up so often when you know it could be gone had you just not done the quest. And that feeling of permanent anti-progression should not be present in this game, and I still don't believe was intentional.