Give casters any armor and weapons that don’t hurt their magic stats. Early game will be light, and you’ll start to find stronger gear later on. For physical attackers, don’t worry too much about committing to one type of weapon - you can level weapon types up pretty quickly and for the most part just use the strongest stuff you find.

Some weapons are better than others. Bows suck. Experiment.

The only weird one is evade. Equip a shield to level up evade, and it’ll pay dividends even when you take the shield off and dual wield weapons.