"Upon reaching level 70 and killing kitava, there is alot of stuff to work on, I have carefully analysed the options and believe below is the optimal path:
Focus on filling your forbidden library with mythical tomes until you unlock level 5.
Try to get at least a steam-powered fishing boat with 3 fishermen, for the daily bonus breakpoint (see attached calculations).
Get your delve depth to at least 300-400 depending on your build.
Start farming for flour and rhoa meat, repeat this until you become a 3-star chef focusing on rhoa pies, this unlocks most of the enchants you will need until very late game.
Defeat insanity kitava (you may need to respec into one of the meta builds for this), this will unlock the shadow laboratory, shadow delve, shadow menagarie and shadow memories, all of these are not worth spending time on other than shadow delve, and maybe shadow lab if you are playing a high movement speed build. Make sure to keep both your normal and shadow delve levels high as they are both beneficial.
Get your fortress upgraded to at least stone, if not iron walls, you want to trigger tier 4 or higher raids on it at each daily reset, you can stop them cheaply by hiring a garrison of bane archers (up to tier 4 they have no chaos resistance and the aoe is great).
Get your trade network setup, if you spend around 200-300 chaos you can get 4 wagons with a basic infantry guard which should ensure the trade runs are successful about 80% of the time, (i.e unless it runs into a high tier attack like a vampire/werewolf one), the easiest route for early profit is Act 1 merevils lair to Act5 cathedral rooftop, which gives a good chance of a tabula rasa dropping.
You want to get your reputation to exalted with at least 2 major factions, then spam cross faction rep missions on those 2 factions and pick the currency rewards rather than rep, only do the missions when you have the daily bonus, or nothing else to do, though as they are not that high priority otherwise.
Get three level 30 mercenaries and spec them with one of the meta specs for the arena, there are a number of cheap builds that have a good chance of beating other players mercs and at that point its basically free currency every week.
You should try and get all the above done in the first month after beating kitava, I have an advanced guide that covers month 2 and month 3, and you can find them linked below."
