don't bother with creating TU's that early . use runewords and rares for the first levels + the TU's found in the griswold box (some of them are usualy usefull ). they are enough for any build to run trough the game up until LC1 . compared to other median versions , you can find decent runes on your way ,sometimes even higher than your character lvl .
if you can't find the specific TU you want after killing Andariel or Mephisto a few times , gamble for the highest item tier (no matter the quality , it can be rare/magic or whateve .if it happens to be unique , lucky you , if not , it's fine anyway ) you can buy (t3 or t4 should not be hard to gamble) and create a higher TU tier directly , do not upgrade it from T1 onwards unless you happened to find the T1 , get the t3-t4 instead . that way you save a lot of arcane Crystals and time wasted doing re-runs
the honorifics are only accesible after killing Shenk the overseer in act 5 . if your build is not so TU orientated and would better make use of honorifics , you can just rush to act 5 - it should not take more than a few hours on /players 1 .
do not underestimate the rw-s in early game , they are decent most of the time.