I basically used your guide all the way to 80 on my Mesmer.
I think the only small differences I had were that I tended to use Carrion gear as I leveled because I liked the added condition damage when I’d shatter for confusion with the added bonus of stronger performance underwater. I also didn’t use blink in lieu of having both clone generators simply because being able to do a 3 pt shatter with F1 and another one within less than 3 secs with a full 3 clone F2 was big time damage on groups. That or being able to use distortion quickly.
But I loved leveling this way and made it much easier for me to stay alive once I switched gear to full zerker exploder mode.