Much more information needed: where you are; what you are going to do; what size and shape are your feet?
I have relatively short for my height, narrow, high instep, bony feet and blister easily. Anything I recommend will be useless for most folk, as would someone's recos if they have wide and flat feet, aside from some of the general points already made about going to a good shop or 5 and trying many things on. I have found this way that the likes of Zamberlan and AltBerg have a decent narrow fitting which works for me (next boot purchase, if needed, will be AltBerg Malham).
With regard to waterproof membranes: they will ALL fail at some point (I had a pair fail disastrously in rain while up a hill in NW Sutherland), so being able to re-proof the outside is a consideration. I've gone back to all leather uppers with as few seams as possible, so I can Nikwax or whatever the buggery out of them.
I've come to regard replaceable/repairable soles as a better idea than integrated soles, especially if one can maintain the uppers well, so Vibram or similar, depending on location, seem sensible.
These days my boot armoury is a pair of Zamberlans as the main, big boy boots (leather uppers with a membrane, replaceable Vibram soles), with a couple of pairs of cheaper, albeit still mostly leather upper, Teva and Rockport ones for messing around on beaches.