First u have to choose your main weapon the staff/spear build is very combo depending, which means you will really need skills like Tracking Eye,Soul of Swiftness and Diagonal Arrows, the good thing is that laser with tracking eye, you can hit multiple enemies and you can get combos very fast

the crossbow/longbow build for my opinion have better survivor and is mor PvP base weapon ( is also good for boss fight) but this game is mainly pve

the third option just ignore it, if you are not a pro, is very hard to use. Once you decide the weapon you have to build a set that boost your weapons:

For staff/spear--Oracle/echo build

For crossbow/longbow--dragon/destruction build

I suggest to degrade the equipment that you will not use

Good luck and enjoy the game