Swunting is a combination of sweating and hunting. This method is most of the time used on low maturity creatures (Cambibo, Daikiba, Exarosaur, Berycled).
What is needed for this to work?
1. weapon (if it is ranged weapon - don't forget ammo)
2. Sweating tool (you get this item, when you create your avatar and log in first time)
3. Armor (optional - if you do it in armor bigger decay costs will apply, but you will not die so fast)
4. Patience
In my opinion this does not take longer then sweating as usually if you sweat creature dry you need to "drag" it to turret before you can proceed to another sweating target. Using this method you do the killing and have a chance to get some loot along with the sweat. I would say that this method is even faster.
How to preceed?
You will need to choose what creatures you will swunt. If you are just starting, I would suggest Puny maturity creatures around Port Atlantis - they don't hit that hard and are great for sweating and beginner hunting with they'r low health. On the other hand they give less loot after killing.
Now that we have creature in sight we equip our sweating tool and begin to sweat it until message in chat is displayed stating that you can't gather anymore sweat from this creature. Now we shall equip our weapon and kill this poor creature and after that proceed to the next one.
If you feel confident about your skills you can go for stronger creatures, but i would suggest not to go for creatures with maturity - young (can go for mature but keep in mind that they will hit for more damage).
Benifit's of swunting:
1. you get sweat
2. you get some loot
3. you get defensive skills (evade for example)
4. it is not as boring as sweating