Not sure, but I do believe the SC & HC Sexy Drops Threads agree with you here.

Lotsa purty stuff in there lately!

I'm just sayin, if they remove death farming but just made drops as a whole better... Iuno I'd be happy with that!

The only thing I see dropping is people's desire to play

Definitely seeing a lot of good quality mods dropping and also a lot of EE items, no great drops yet but seems promising!

Most likely due to the event mod though like others have stated