I agree with most of these, other than Flawless Synth. Maybe it's just me, but I felt Careful Synth II has helped me infinitely more in the long run. I started with WVR to CRP and getting those two made the other crafts incredibly simple to level so far (with only two left to go).

Other tip I'd give is to unlock ALL the beastman tribes at least to Neutral. Sometimes the vendor prices for ingots, lumber, etc is much cheaper from the vendors compared to the market board (For example, cloth for high level weaver is half the price of market values on my server. Which also provided a nice stream of income being "that guy just selling items bought from vendors").