In short: i completely and utterly disagree with the recent changes
The gold hunters were making were not in the obsene amounts, in the very rare cases that they did get a Foror's Compendium, maybe even 2 in a short span of time. something that can happen with any class farming any mob that has a tiny chance of droping a very valueble item.
That aside. a good hunter made about 80-120g after 4 runs(1h).
Now if this is the problem, shall we then remove the ability of mages to farm 50-150g in an hour using blizzard on weak mobs? remove the ability of rogues and warriors to kill elementals quickly to earn the same amount?
Maybe we should remove the ability of all hunters of all lvls to kite any mob, so that they cannot boost anybody or solo anything... remove pets so they cant get past mob packs?
Let us also remove invisibility potions, they make things too easy
On another note. as many people are saying it has become very hard or impossible to even do the encounter will a full group now. This is not blizzlike, this is improvising, catering to the loud minority.
I'll end this with saying this: as a hunter, i could begin farming elementals. or specific mobs that give valueble items to earn basicaly the same. but i dont want to. because soloing tribute was fun pretty much from the start til now. Grinding elementals over and over is not, it requires no focus, no tactics.
Thank you for reading this rant(ish) post