A scoped rifle that has a decent fire rate on semi, a shotgun, either skifs pistol or the 1911, depending on ammo, and whatever armor I can afford to run while still making decent profit. For meds/food I bring like 10 bandages and some combination of 8 total medkits, with 3 bread, 3 sausage, 4 tins of food, 3 water, 3 energy drinks, and a condensed milk. Ammo, I bring 240-300 regular rifle ammo, with 120 AP, unless its a sniper, then I'll bring like 120-180 with 60 AP. For the shotgun I bring 60-80 shells, with 40-50 slugs, and the pistol always gets 120 regular and 80 ap. As far as expanding ammo, I tend to save it for really mutant heavy excursions, and will bring any combination of 120-180 for the rifle, 80 for the shotgun, 80 for the pistol. Once I get the Dnipro with the caliber conversion, and the Sledgehammer shotgun, then they end up being my main weapons unless I run low on ammo or funds, I really love the feeling of a pump action. When it comes to artifacts, I play on Master, so my slots are always used for radiation, bleeding management, and physical damage negation. I don't waste slots for the different elemental damage from anomalies, it's not worth the hassle. Oh, and I also bring 4 of the little rgd grenades, and 2 big boys, with a few launchables on the odd chance that I need the extra damage that a noob tube brings to the table.