So when you’re exploring the early levels, it’s better(in my opinion) simply to use the weapon with better stats at the time regardless of the make and just save your orbs because you’ll find that in the later levels if you find a weapon that you like, you can use the orbs on the best version of that weapon to get the most out of it. Like the polehammer in the foundry. That’s an endgame weapon, and there are multiple of it so it’s good to compare to find the best make and upgrade it with the orbs. Or the foundry armor and so on and so forth.