Danth gives good info. To elaborate a bit and add some things he didn't mention :
Greaves of Ro are good, you won't beat them before the gear from Fear at L46+ unless you're a cheatin' dorf with piles of platinum to buy the cultural or a truly stupid-rich twink able to buy DW Greaves.
Boots of Ro are ok too, they give 35hp vs. the higher AC on DW Boots.
Skull-shaped Barbute goes for 800+ these days, it's well worth it. Other than the clickie at L45+ the DW Helm doesn't really compete, it just doesn't give enough AC to make up for both 35hp and 10mr. You'll want both eventually even if you have to choose one at first (if you're strapped for pp just get banded or turtleshell or something else ultra cheap until you can afford a decent hat.).
Budget Paladin is often ugly looking because Treeweave has leather look but it has pretty much unbeatable price vs. performance for a budget chest piece. Just go ahead and embrace the ugly until you're rich or raiding Fear, other budget chest pieces are weak in comparison. (Again, banded or whatever if you're forced to cheap out some slots at first.)
BTW, besides needing it eventually for the epic, Ghoulbane procs starting at L20 and at that level up through your low 30's the proc damage makes for some fun fighting undead. Unrest is well stocked with appropriate level-range undead for your Ghoulbane proc'ing pleasure. Once you're out of Unrest I'd bag Ghoulbane in favor of the Sword of the Morning 100% of the time.
If you're Erudite, Shield of the Stalwart Seas is obvious. For other races Cracked Darkwood is cheap and the 9str can be handy as Paladins are often low-ish str. Clay Guardian Shield is well worth 500ish when you've got that to spend, and of course eventually you'll want one of those Sarnak Battle Shields that the scummy Chardok AEers have made so invitingly reasonable in price.
If you need to start out working only a single weapon forget the 1h+shield and just get Baton of Faith. As a budget Paladin, it'll be your best damaging weapon for a long time, and your relative damage output doesn't become obviously horrible to everybody living in the same zipcode until you level into your upper 40s (quiet in the peanut gallery, we're ignoring the 9000+ Freebringer Rogue twinks atm) so it will be useful in some groups for quite a while.
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