If you have adventure mode unlocked, don't bother with the story. If you don't you'll have to beat the story one time before you can get to the farming part of the game. You do not have to beat the Act V story each time a new season starts if you have beaten it already. I saw some of my friends and clan mates make this mistake in season 1. The tips I give will assume you have access to adventure mode.
To lvl up run nothing but bounties. Act 1 bounties specifically. They're the easiest and most predictable. If you want the fastest lvl up time, don't do any bounties that involve killing bosses or the fields of misery map. They take too long compared to the others due to the size and random nature of the maps. Skeleton King might be ok since he's always in the same place, but killing him still takes a chunk of time unless you're completely wrecking your difficulty level. (in which case you're better off just raising the difficulty) Doing this means you will almost never fully complete a set of bounties, but you don't need to open any caches until level 70 anyway. The loot you get from them will be mostly meaningless pre-lvl 70. Play on whatever difficulty lets you kill white mobs in 2-3 three hits. Speed is key because you're mainly just looking for racking up those individual mission rewards as fast as possible for xp.
By the time you're 70 you'll have a ton of rift fragments. Run rifts with these. There is a 100% drop rate bonus to legendaries in them, so farming outside of rifts is largely pointless. You'll want to get to at least torment 1 as quickly as possible so torment-only legendaries drop, but don't run torment if you can't clear the rifts safely and in a decent amount of time. Speed is key to finding the rarest items. The faster you kill elites and get blood shards, the more legendaries you get. The more legendaries you get, the more likely you are to get that ultra rare item. If you can't do it fast, don't do it. Once you get to this rifting phase at lvl 70, only do bounties when you need to get more fragments to get into the rifts except for one exception that I will mention in a bit.
Occasionally you'll get greater rift trial keys. If you want to do greater rifts before you're geared, fail the trials to get a level one key and work your way up to the double digits. Unless you're pretty well geared and on torment difficulty you probably won't be able to go to high into the ranks though. While you're gearing, the main benefit of greater rifts is that the extremely low level rifts provide easy and quick runs with chances for a couple legendaries at the end of each run. That's why if you do this for farming right away, you'll want to start at level 1 and stay low. Once you're geared and can take it better, go higher for rankings and whatnot.
That's basically all there is to the game right now. The game is fairly simple as far as farming goes. Gamble at Kadala for all your specific legendary and set needs. She's ridiculous in terms of getting what you want. If you have to play the story mode because you haven't beaten it yet, it just means you'll level a lot slower and won't have fragments built up when you hit 70, so you'll have to do bounties immediately. Oh, once you can play t6, farm act 1 bounties on torment 6 for a royal ring of grandeur. They drop from the act 1 bounty cache's and are critical in a majority of the builds in the game. Farming for it on torment 6 guarantees a legendary from the cache meaning a guaranteed chance at the ring each time. You may find it before you get to t6 if you're lucky in your bounties. If not, you'll get it when you can play t6.
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