There are basically four stages of honing a razor.
Bevel-set, sharpening, polishing and finishing.

Now, for maintaining just one user, you do not need a whole slew of stones available.
If you take care of it, and address any loss of keenness as soon as it starts to develop, a simple barber hone or a 4/8 combo hone should last you a lifetime.

Those two mentioned hones, and a whole bunch of other similar ones will take care of your sharpening and polishing.
Finishing can be done on a pasted strop of some kind as an example.

If you get a ding in it or it gets completely dull, a 1K bevel setter would be the ticket.
Although a 4/8 will do the job too, for the patient honer