For about the 10th time now.. yes, DLSH gets all the same skills and all the same augments as DCRA. It's EXACTLY the same with 3 exceptions:
Spellcrafting, Scalecrafting and transmutation. I believe there's another one but I can't recall what it is, but it's not used in DLSH.
WHich is why I brought this up to begin with.
You can level up to 100 DLSH without touching DCRA beyond the initial 150 gemworking requirement (presuming you don't want to ascend at some point which is what takes out the whole idea that this is a prestige class since you have to get at least 28 crafting to ascend anyway.....) since all the skills go up the same amount for each level in both crafting classes.
The problem is, gathering becomes defunct at one point or another (for both classes) since we don't get the proper amount of skill points for gathering that bipeds get... having those quests keeps you a bit (not up to par with bipeds) more in-step and at least makes it so you can gather more than 1 per hit when you hit 100 and are trying to mine T5.
DLSH doesn't have that luxury.