my feedback about end game mapping

Big fan of POE, played poe1 since alpha.

With that said mapping feels so horrible in POE 2. VERY unrewarding.

I am really happy that crafting is starting to feel good. in this league I made hundreds of divines crafting it was super easy.

With that said... I didnt bother to craft a single top end item. I just spammed out middle of the road slop. Why you might ask? because maps drop absolute crap so why bother making actual good stuff when I can spam out a 1 div ring craft that sells every time for 3-22 div a pop.

even in past leagues most of my wealth came from flipping on the currency exchange.

This league I was making 40 exalts every 5 minutes flipping on the currency exchange.

As for my mapping experience. I cant say for sure but I felt like mapping was losing me currency per hour when i started juicing maps.

Towards the end I just stopped picking up rares. It is pointless to pick up rares because maybe 1 in every 100 rares is worth 20 ex to sell.

The real money is in magic and normal items

id say 10-15 in every 100 magic items you pick up are worth 20 ex and tbh the number might be even higher. This is because they are good crafting bases.

with a proper filter you can get 5-10 normal items per map that are each worth 5 ex due to them being good crafting bases.

I finally got bored of this league super early because I realized how stupid mapping is when im more excited to see white and magic items then rare items.

Is it just me? Mapping feels so horrible