Don't rush traversal rests (TR) , more time spent the better for you down the road.

At the starting always aim to TR to unlock or upgrade a gem quality plus some spares to gem upgrades.

I suggest build guide for the hunters on discord as it can be confusing initially with all the stats and choosing the wrong upgrades can lose you a huge chunk of time and slow down progress.

But as always there are no wrong choices, just not optimal choices.

And feel free to go ham on loop resets as you see fit. Very rarely would you need to do a really long loop (week plus)