The only issue with Hunts at this point, is that the reward is so good that it overshadows everything else. The servers are being strained, Queue times for dungeons are horrific, and during peak hours even organized and dedicated groups have a hard time getting full credit on a Hunt.
Fairly easy problem to fix though.
Just limit people to buying 1 Sand and 1 Oil per week, and take out the Soldiery reward, so people run dungeons again.
To compensate for any loss in interest, I'd do the following to hunts.
1: Make the reward for doing Dailies much better.
2: Randomize the weekly for each player, or at least each GC.
3: Make A's and S's drop Alexandrite, or if completed in the right area with a Zenith weapon, an Atma.
Presto, done. This stops hunts from being a complete free for all, maintains a good set of rewards for the players, and gets people back into dungeons. Players that just want to solo will be able to do the Dailies and get Sands every week or two, and you can loosen up the restriction once they add Sands to CT2.
Or they could just add Sands to CT2 right now, that in addition to taking out the Soldiery reward would have largely the same affect.
