Bro, what is your goal and what kind of a player are you?
You ask whether the only way to make money is hunting or not, but then you complain about picking stones? Nvm trading is always an option. You can also fill the Battle Pass and when you sell bags of scalps & card essence you could get around 1k gold, depends on the market.
What is your understanding of PvP? Going on enemy continent and 1 hit 90% of players from your level or just make the valor of your level? If you just want to make valor, simply attend Storm in Plataeu, that should do it.
Maybe the basics are still the same, I mean there are still naked hunters.
I have real life so can't grind 4h/day, usually it's not more than 2 hours farming and probably picking stones in background. I wasn't complaining about picking stones, but maybe about situation when there is no demand of stones on the market. Maybe it just seems like that, but I have a feeling that even being high level the best option is grinding basic stones for 3lvl, that feels sad. So I was asking about other possible ways to make money, but I still pick stones
Thinking about pvp I consider chaotics, klan battles, maybe plataeu, totally not going to an enemy continent.
And does battle pass make sense only if you complete it to the end or is there some point where you can get back your investment? I spent 1g and 10d on this Storm battle pass and it felt okayish, but don't know about spending 50g on it.