I just logged into blackburrow on a level 10 with
https://wiki.project1999.com/Balanced_Sheer_Blade and a store bought round shield and some store bought leather. I killed a few dark blue gnolls and snakes, got about 2 gnoll fangs, and 1 yellow of experience. It's busy there and I do need to get up otherwise I would have stuck around.
That's pretty elite though. I don't remember classic weapons being as good as 6/31, which is like really a 12/31 or even better a 24 dmg every 6.1 seconds or tops out at 3.9 damage per second. Which is really sweet vs blue mobs and greens. Not factoring in bashes which pushes my DPS to over 4/sec