What are some good tips and practices for applying textures and node setups.

Its one aspect of blender I still have trouble with. Typically I’ll use crazy bump to make a Color/Diffuse, Occ, Spec and normal maps. More often then not , it doesn’t look right to me sometimes. Here is an example of one of my new set ups.

What node set ups do you use?
What advice do you have, to make realistic quality textures?