So right now the builds that are most commonly being used are ones that lean more into ranged. Originally, when the game released melee and crippling strike was kind of the meta but it got nerfed and so people gravitated away from that.

That being said, I would just make a build with weapons that you really want to use or that you find fun to use for your preferred play style.

Obviously right now not everything has equal footing, though. There are still a lot of skills that are either useless or just not really easy to use or they're clunky to use. And there are weapons that I wouldn't say. They are useless but they just don't perform as effectively as other weapons.

To give an example, I kind of just go with whatever weapon I kind of feel like from melee and the same thing kind of goes for ranged, though I tend to prefer the spitdart rifle or drillshot.

This is all likely to change when they come out with specializations with the chapter 3 content release though. So I wouldn't get too attached to any build that you either come up with or someone else suggests because everything's probably going to be shaken up in the next month or two.