I'd look at the Pace ADS200. The station itself costs about the same, and is built like a tank, but Pace tips are far cheaper. While I do appreciate JBC's insanely huge assortment of tips, they're so expensive that it becomes prohibitive. (We use JBC at work, and with their tip prices, we can't justify having a whole selection of tips at each workbench. Each bench has a basic chisel and bevel, and then we have a selection of the more "exotic" tips that students can borrow for a task.)
IMHO, a 1.6mm chisel is an optimal "everyday" tip that works well for most THT and SMD components. A large bevel tip is great for using desoldering wick. I'm a big fan of the special drag soldering tips (the ones that are basically a bevel whose face is concave, to hold onto a drop of solder. JBC calls these "spoon" tips, others call them "mini wave" and similar). I love the C245067 spoon. (Bear in mind that I find spoon tips useful beyond their official purpose of drag soldering SMD ICs with legs: their ability to pull away excess solder is useful for many other types of components, too.) Note that a regular bevel tip also works well for drag soldering SMD ICs, just not quite as luxuriously as the spoon tip.
For many things, I also like PLCC knife tips. They're great not only for PLCCs (which is mostly only LEDs these days), but also for QFN ICs that have no legs at all. The C245789, their smallest T245 knife, has worked out great for us for clearing bridges from QFNs, as it's sharp enough to really get into the corner of the joint.