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First goal in adventure should probably be Kanai's Cube. You'll find it in a new area at the top right of Act 3's map. It lets you do many things, but the most important is the ability to break down legendary items and store their effect, then you can equip 3 of those effects without the item (1 weapon/offhand, 1 armour and 1 ring/amulet).

Getting the difficulty up to at least torment 1 is a good idea, the extra exp and legendary drop rate will help you get stronger stuff quicker.

If you've not been using the gems/mystic, they'll be a good way to give your stats a bit of a boost.

Bigger gems = stronger effect so combining them is good. It's usually best to socket an emerald in your weapon, and whatever boosts your main stat in your armour. If you're using a lot of skills with cooldowns, put the biggest diamond you can make in your headgear.

The mystic lets you change properties on yellow or legendary items, very useful if you get something with +fire damage when you're using ice skills, or get didn't get a socket on your weapon. One thing to remember, there are 2 sets of properties, one with things like sockets, damage and stats, the other has things like stun chance and pickup range. You can only change properties to something in the same group, there's a way to check ehat they can change to if you're unsure.

The Blood shards you've been finding are spent at one of the new npcs in towns, there should be a blood shard symbol on your map. I'd recommend saving them until you're level 70, unless you can't pick any more up.

Completing rifts or doing the bounties for Tyrael are good ways to get exp and loot quickly.