help with early 70lvl progression

[hlx]

hi there - yesterday I dinged my first seasonal character (monk) and I need help with what to do in which order now. I was never a serious D3 player but this time around I would like to get to T6 level and be able to clear stuff.

I need help with sorting out what to do now.

I leveled doing bounties and I'm sitting at around 30+ keys, I did couple of T1 bounties once I hit 70 and it wasn't a problem, did a rift on T1 and it went rather well (issues are rather with my playing and build understanding than with difficulty) so that's where I am.

Here is what I would like to figure out, in which order do this:
- farm for goblin portal and Greed gem (read I should do this on normal? I assume for speed?)
- farm Act1 for RoRG (I read somewhere it should be don on T2? can someone confirm this?)
- should I just run T1 rifts till I run out of keys? should I do this after I get the greed gem? after getting RoRG?
- at what point should I consider upping the difficulty?
- is there something missing on this list I should be doing?

[Coldkil]

First of all, craft some level 70 yellow gear, that will bump you significantly to T1 on farm status. Then, it's all abotu your preference. However:
- most if not all builds require a RoRG; you want definitely to farm one, but until you have at least 3 set pieces, it's not better than any other ring
- ideally farm normal rifts for better chances at gear and blood shards; though you may get annoyed by rifts only so mix them with bounties (act1 for the ring maybe ) so you have more diversity in playstyle and a steady flow of rift keys
- to up the difficulty, i usually check rifts times; once you get at the 7 minute mark, go up a difficulty, being over 10 minutes is bad because of efficiency.

Another good thing to do is getting a trial gem and run all grifts one by one: enter tral and leave immediately to get a lvl 1 key; go into GR and clear stuff until boss comes, port out and reenter when you have less than 5 minutes left; this way you can farm the gems easily and get everytime the GR+1 key.

[hlx]

if this helps - this is my current armory http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/R.../hero/56389461
so right now I take it I should just keep running rifts with hopping onto grifts to get my gems?

[daluur]

Unless you plan on doing a gold-build, I don't see the point of getting the greed gem

As Coldkill mentioned, slow-rolling (I think that's the term) GR's is what I'd recommend.
Start a trial, leave right away -> get rank 1 key
Start the rank 1 GR, clear to the boss, teleport to town, note how long you have left
Do bounties (act 1 for RroG), only use the map to teleport around, NEVER use 'town portal', as it removes your portal in the GR
When there is less then 4:30 left, go back in the GR, and kill the boss, upgrade key, now you have a rank 2 key
close the rift and open a new.

I did this shortly after reaching 70, on T1, I was able to do 2-3 bounties while waiting for the GR to time out, so I managed to complete act 1 in the time it took me to do 2 GR's, in one day (I played a lot) I got full legendary, and like 4 (usable) set pieces, I don't think I could've done anything that would have been faster.

[Geobram]

As Coldkill mentioned, slow-rolling (I think that's the term) GR's is what I'd recommend.
Start a trial, leave right away -> get rank 1 key
Start the rank 1 GR, clear to the boss, teleport to town, note how long you have left
Do bounties (act 1 for RroG), only use the map to teleport around, NEVER use 'town portal', as it removes your portal in the GR
When there is less then 4:30 left, go back in the GR, and kill the boss, upgrade key, now you have a rank 2 key
close the rift and open a new.

What is the advantage to leave the rift and do bounties instead of finishing the rift and do the bounties then?

[Ciacco75]

Maximizing your grift key, i.e. only going up one level in difficulty instead of up to 10 levels.

[daluur]

What is the advantage to leave the rift and do bounties instead of finishing the rift and do the bounties then?

If you finish the GRift, you would gain a lot of ranks, e.g. you could go from rank 1-11 in one GRift, if you wait till there is less than 4:30 minutes left, you will only get 1 rank. Which means you can do A LOT of Grifts, from the same key, you could do 15 ranks (shouldn't be too hard with a few legs) just gives a lot of gear from a single key, and lets you farm bounties meanwhile, instead of just farming regular rifts