Exotic

Attack Type: Differs. Elemental orbs good with everything.
Fast for: No One	Viable for: Ranger or Paladin
Uniques: None

Pros: Not much, though the top exotics are very good
Cons: Very rare, very slow for most classes
High End Choices: Elemental orbs were the only choice for a long time, they do fire or frost damage depending on which you have, and so work very well on armored things. Now there are the thraxi mandibles that are two handed and do good damage, but are heavy. Shears are decent and good dualled
Two Weapon Choices: They all dual pretty well due to low weight... but only ones worth it are the orbs and shears, shears being more difficult, but actually have specials for offhand.

Suggested Skill Progression:

0-20 Weeding hook from Nepeth, carpenters saw from tantallon sea rescue, padded grapple from rogues or tant. sea rescue
10-30 a rusty pair of blade shears from ray the sheep farmer "search table" in his cabin.
30-50 Throwing star from Grorkag in nepeth.
45-100 Elemental orbs, a pair of steel blade shears from rays.
50-100 Some well preserved thraxi mandibles

Also you can use the list below to find an appropriate weapon for your skill range.

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
0-5	A red wild rose (T)	1		Castle Virgis, SE isle	Maya, the Virgision Princess	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
0-5	A rune stone (T)	1	1	Rune	The Keeper of the Silver Circle	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
0-5	A wooden folding chair	2		Tantallon	Donator toy	Average	Useless	Two Handed
0-5	Knight Tail			Scythe Camp	Scythe Games Area	Average	Useless	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
5-10	A paper fan	1	1	Drakhiya	Drakhiya Orc Mistress	Average	Adequate	One Handed
5-10	A tambourine	1	1	Drakhiya	Drakhiya Dancing Girl	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Shuriken (T)	1	<8	Dalair	Weapon Seller	Average	Useless	One Handed
5-10	Weeding Hook	1		Nepeth	Nepeth	Average	?	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
10-15	A carpenters saw	2	1	Tantallon Sea Rescue	On ground	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	A padded grapple	2	1	Rogues	On ground	Average	Useless	Two Handed
10-15	A padded grapple	2	1	Tantallon Sea Rescue	On ground	Average	Useless	Two Handed
10-15	Bible	1		Convent	Convent	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	An oak boomerang (T)	1	1	Tantallon Park	Sanal	Average	Serviceable	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
15-20	A black shuriken	2	2	Nepeth	A suspicious-looking man	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	A pair of threshing sticks	1		Infidian near Gemynd	A farmer	Average	Adequate	One Handed
15-20	A rusty pair of blade shears	2		Rays Sheep Farm	"Search" table, in cabin	Average	Very Poor	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
20-30	a golden feather (T)	2		Virgision Village	Sjorya, The Keeper of Hate	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	a white feather (T)	2		Virgision Village	Elentine, the Winged Warrior	Average	Adequate	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
30-35	A throwing star (T)	2	6	Nepeth	Grorkag, head of Nepeth operations	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
30-35	Moose antlers	1		Fort Mt. Wolf	Prize for winning the game	Average	Splendid	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
35-45	A pair of steel blade shears	3		Rays Sheep Farm	Ray the sheep farmer	Average	Serviceable	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
45-55	Elemental orb	3	10	Flaws House	Faden Magus	Average	?	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
55-65	A jeweled sceptre	2		Silent Grove	Mini Quest	Average	Fine	One Handed
55-65	A three-legged barstool	5		Rylmis Forsaken Manor	Kitchen	Average	Very Good	Two Handed
55-65	Some well preserved thraxi mandibles	6	8<10	Thraxi Hyf	Queens?	Greater than Average	Adequate	Two Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed

If you feel so inclined, weapons listed below (if any) need an eval

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed