I'm pushing through these as well, although I at least have classes that can advantage from levelling up through it. My Gladiator is currently at level 38, so I'll be taking him to the L30 camps till I get to L40, working my way up, then swapping down to Lancer at L29 to cover up any remaining L30 camps and then my L8 Marauder to clear out the baby camps.
The real pain will indeed be the behests. I've taken to the habit of setting the behest location as my home point. Once I've done the 20 leves interspersed with behests, I'll do either crafting or stuff around town, making sure I've returned to the camp in time for the next behest.
Also, going my what Sasu (the German rep) said, it looks like we have till November, not October.
