Does level scaling necessarily mean removing threats?

[redwood36]

Scale up when needed, never scale down.

its not complicated to see.

Otherwise however open world balancing is extremely difficult. It's not fair to compare to witcher 1 or 2.

 

[GreyReaver]

Witcher 2 seems fairly close. It wasn't exactly open world, but was definitely open enough that some parallels can be drawn.