Forgotten Ruins difficulty level raised?

[ilhanna]

Yesterday the mobs have yellow dot on their hp bar, after Friday update it's orange so supposedly they're three levels higher than me. They're harder to kill, I died more soloing, and all that rl swearing and wanting to hurl my device against the wall only resulted in a single magna. Is this intended? If it is, it just makes artifact farming that much more frustrating and far less appealing.

Also, Ruins doesn't have other perks other maps (which we can enter for free) have. Nature jewels? Really? The mushroom chests give junk. Can't the mobs or the chests at least drop magna or věctus to the rate of, say, planar essence?