There has been some questions about what are good RW weapons and armour. There are some really good resources out there that go into this subject in detail. I will give some links here.

• Rifles guide 
• General guide
• Crazy detailed guide
• Andyman guide

Some people don't like reading, so I will give a tldr here that is mostly my own opinion.

Armour

Dune is trash. Genuinely just don't bother with it.

Riot is great for missions. It is a good entry point for RW armour if you cannot afford anything else.

Assault is a big upgrade on riot for everything except missions. Especially for rank wars. At our rank, most people use guns, not melee. If you use assault then do NOT use the assault helmet. It is really, really bad and is not worth the set bonus. Use a riot helmet with the rest assault.

Delta is actually really good. The bonus is really strong for ranked wars, where most people use debuffing items that Delta counters. Mostly good on dex players or for players who attack a lot.

Marauder is a good armour. Life is the 5th battle stat of torn and cannot be debuffed. The helmet has full coverage unlike basically any other set. If you aren't heavily invested into one stat then Marauder is probably better value than Vanguard or Sentinel.

Vanguard is honestly pretty crap. It is far weaker than Sentinel and is mathematically outperformed by both Delta and Marauder's in the vast majority of use cases. Big numbers are sexy though …

Sentinel is an amazing set. Defence buffs are way more valuable than dex buffs due to torn math. If you are a def main and you can afford this then it is the best you can get unless ….

EOD ... if you can afford this then why the f* are you reading this, lol. It is brokenly overpowered. It is by far the best armour in the game and nothing else comes even remotely close.

Weapons

Rifles are by far the strongest weapons in the game. This is not even a contest. No secondary or melee weapon can compare to them, and neither can any of the other primaries. I would typically suggest picking up a decent rifle as the single best investment one can make. But which ones?

For the weapons themselves, four rifles are clearly superior to the others. ArmaLite M-15A4, Enfield SA-80, Tavor TAR-21 and SIG-552 (Quite significantly worse, in my opinion). In that order, with one caveat. If you do not have the maths education for improved ammo conservation, then the Enfield is actually slightly better than the ArmaLite M-15A4. Other rifles can be good if they have great bonuses, but as a general rule, these four will be the best.

As for the bonuses. You will generally get the most use out of the following bonuses: Powerful, Specialist or Penetrate.

• Powerful gives a flat damage bonus, which is always great in every circumstance.
• Specialist does the same, but limits you to one mag. I would only suggest it on an Enfield SA-80 due to its low rate of fire.
• Penetrate reduces the usefulness of the enemy's armour. This gets better as the enemy's armour gets better, so the stronger the person you are against, the more impactful it is. Especially against head armour.

But what if you already have a good rifle?

There are some good secondaries and melee's, lets look at them.

Secondary weapons

For the weapons themselves, secondaries have clear winners. Either the BT-MP9, QSZ or very specifically the Cobra Derringer but only with assassinate. Everything else is, unfortunately, trash.

For the bonuses, you are probably going to want to either get something that has a clear utility, like revitalize or use a secondary with a specific use-case. Revitalize is super expensive due to its use in the trick or treat event and its general use in chaining and warring. It is especially expensive on secondaries. Other than that, I would suggest getting something like Quicken for specifically helping with dex mains, assassinate for first turn damage (this is the first turn of the entire fight. You cannot temp first), motivation for a stat boost or execute to finish off fights (usually not worth it until orange quality).

Melee

For the weapons, there are a couple of clear winners in the Diamond Bladed Knife, Macana and Metal Nunchaku's but many of the Japanese blades are also very valid choices (Samurai Sword, Kodachi, Katana, Yasukuni Sword)

As for bonuses, the best options are Eviscerate, Bleed or Parry.

• Eviscerate is mostly used to give an even bigger damage buff to your rifle. Any hit, even if does 0 damage, increases all future damage, from any source, including other weapons and even other players. This means that all you care about for the eviscerate weapon is the bonus and the weapon accuracy (as it still needs to hit). Unless, of course, you want to actually use the weapon in fights. Then you would need a good weapon with good bonus and good accuracy, which is super expensive.
• For bleed, it is a really big damage increase and is especially annoying as it still applies to future fights even if the person defeats you. One good thing to know is if you have bleed on an enemy and you use a warlord, but the bleed does the last damage, the warlord will still apply if you used it. For bleed, the main consideration is damage and bonus %.
• Last, but not least, is parry. This bonus is incredible if you are facing someone who uses melee weapons and useless if you are facing someone who doesn't. It is extremely useful for missions where the majority of opponents have long since run out of ammunition and will only use their melee.