Not sure about 60+, but shift pulverize bear is remarkably faster early on

Man I felt like a god as a Pulverize Bear after like level 30.

Only level 64 but this accurately describes the bear druid experience. With any luck you get the shockwave aspect early but I didn't until mid forties. Once you get it together though it kicks ass.

I am really digging blizzard and IMHO it's a good investment throughout the life of your character. It spams really well in D4 and there is no cool down. I pair it with an aspect that gives 4 mana for each crowd control and it will just keep going for ages. Damage seems to stack with each cast, so that is a good perk.

Builds will likely change in the July 18 balance patch, but during mid game (WT3 @ 50+) I recommend Firewall. It’s not as mana hungry as Ice Sharts and isn’t as stat dependent.

I use the Icy Veins build for Firewall and it works great.

Almost done! Finishing Kehjistan now and only have Scosglen left. Got good music on though which helps lol

You... Don't have a horse? You'll want to get a horse to make it less painful...

That's rough! Good luck, hope ya got a long playlist lol

If you make a new character to be a part of the season, yes all side quest will be reset as you are playing a different character. Only campaign completion, alters and map explore will carry over to a new character.

Nothing happens to your current character though, nothing is deleted and nothing is reset. You can continue on that character forever, you just will not be a part of the season.

They were originally going to have everything be a clean slate, as I would typically expect for a seasonal start. Reportedly, they changed due to "overwhelming community feedback" so that's why we have this awkward "keep the map visibility and altars" solution.

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.

Oh no, I'll see blue checkmark again. Literally unplayable.

In the beginning, I started like that. Discovering everything as I go, thinking that’s a good plan. But when the news broke, I checked my progress and I had like 17… out of 160 🤣 No way I would have managed to find all of them on time while free-roaming without the help of d4planner.io (where I could click and hide the „found” ones to uncluttter the map).

I did it with a map. Honestly some of them are ridiculously hard to find on your own so I wouldn't recommend spending the time. I was like you and wanted to find them naturally, but after using a map to find some of them, I just felt like I never would have discovered some of these.

I was like in red dead redemption 2 but d4s map is unnatural and confusing I can’t imagine doing anything without an external resource

Yeah, took me roughly an hour per major area. It's sort of a mindless slog but doable.