It took me forever to get shockwave. Now I just run around everywhere slappin stuff.
You can ignore them if you want, or grab them while you do the story in the season if you want. I’ve leveled a couple of alts to the nightmare dungeon stage, and with some of them, I haven’t touched a single side quest. I do world events and dungeons to level. On other alts, I’ll do side quests if I happen to see one, or I’ll pick it up from the quest giver and if I happen to be near the objective, I’ll do it.
Seasona reset everything every time they start (except this first one where they’re keeping some of the world stuff). You can do the reset stuff, or not. It’s up to you. But I wouldn’t quit over it because it’s not really required.
If you want to be a bear, it’s gonna suck for a really long time. The trample bear is better for the first 40 levels or so. Around level 50 or 60, my pulverize bear started to kick ass, and now, at 85 or so, it feels pretty good. It’s not as fast as my buddy’s rogue, but it’s pretty awesome just walking and slapping everything from across the room.
It’s slow as hell as a bear druid, until it isn’t.
About 2 hours for me if I’m not plugged in.
And then you learn about Fextra’s embedded twitch player that artificially inflates their twitch view count and pushes out smaller content creators who are actually trying to engage with a game’s audience.