Overwhelmed with Gear

Hello! I’m a returning player that typically comes back with the launch of each expansion to play through the story and then I usually drop out after.

This time I’m back a little bit early to try out Onslaught and unlock some of the new and returning weapons.

That being said, I’m utterly overwhelmed with the amount of weapons and overall gear that I have to choose from. I have all of the subclasses unlocked for Titan and Warlock, as well as most aspects and fragments. I’ve looked up builds on YouTube to get the subclass itself working decently well (currently stasis warlock).

My issue is more so with the weapon and armor loadout. First off, the only masterworks I have are my class item and ghost shell. I’m trying my best to get 100 resilience but beyond that my overall rolls aren’t great for armor. I also don’t want to waste resources to masterwork gear that I won’t keep due to poor rolls. I also grabbed the gift of the thunderlord or whatever which got me to 1810.

For weapons, I’m just not sure what is good. A few exotics I really like (Sunshot, Graviton Lance, and DMT to name a few) but I can’t settle on legendaries. I typically like hand cannons, scout rifles, auto rifles, and rocket launchers best if that helps.

I’m also not sure what rolls to be looking for, I’ve looked at light.gg but as has been said here before those rolls are primarily based on popularity and not what’s actually best.

So what I’m asking is: what weapons should I be looking for (how do you know what’s good at the time) and how should I be farming weapons and armor? Additionally, I know there was some kind of weapon crafting system involving patterns but idk anything about that, whether that’s how people get good rolls or just as drops.

Any advice is appreciated, thanks in advance!