the quests we got with 8,0 and the ones we have with 8.2 are slightly different idk if you noticed but we didn't kill 15 balaur on site 10 and 12 every other day or kill the monkey mobs by site 4, 7 and 8...
I assume the reason got harder to farm apsa is due to the fact NCsoft doesn't want people to get insanely geared too fast... but then again put almost no limitations during paragon events which has thrown the unbalances issues out of proportion
And ill be honest with you the first week of 8.2 I noticed it was harder to flip sites and get the renown increased I only worried about getting at least 2 turn ins per week and that's it :v