It's funny that people are comparing Unweathered gear to High Allagan gear, when in actuality, BiS is a combination of both. Stop acting as if all the work in Coil is suddenly squandered by people not needing coil. Furthermore, Hunts allowed people to get more than one sand/oil a week because even though there wasn't a loot lockout in coil, there was an entry lockout once you completed it. Therefore, even for people that could raid, if they were low on the totem poll in terms of receiving drops from coil, Hunts were the only way for them to get sand/oil at a decent pace.

Even though there is no longer an entry limit to 2COB, people still need 7 other competant players. Furthermore, with the loot lockout removed from ST, people are more prone to lootwhoring just because. Lowering the Allied Seal requirement for Logs and i100 gear would allow people to reasonably catch up even if they didn't do dungeons/raid.