The state of mapping and loot is abysmally bad

This league due to another nerf to loot it feels absolutely terrible to do maps. First there was the changes to currency drops around 3.25 (which for me and my friends seemed to make divines way rarer from just killing monsters in maps). Then they split up quant and rarity altars effectively nerfing loot again. Then with the mercenaries loot was in a pretty good spot, farming felt rewarding enough to do. But now this league the mercenary is gone along with its 50% increase to loot and they decided to nerf explicit map mod effect into the ground without compensating somewhere else and since it scales exponentially due to quant and pack size being affected this is a big nerf. But that wasn't enough of a nerf apparently because they decided to nerf all the strong farming strategies as well on top of the things mentioned above. All of this results in mapping feeling god awful.
Also it doesn't even address what they set out to do which is close the gap between the best and worst players, but what they did didn't change anything it just makes the game more ass for everyone. Like be honest do you think this had any impact except for making the game less fun? Which casual is going to keep playing maps slaving away for 0.003 chaos orbs per map?


PS: the walls on the breach tower defense are annoying

I think they addressed to this matter here:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3874760

Btw, I returned to Standard and looting sucks there too :/

Mapping bad now, stink so bad.

inflation is very low though. You can also make near perfect rares with the tree as well. There is a trade off for having smaller amounts of ground loots. The only downside is t17s being a chaos sink sucks when there is not much chaos dropping