If you're twinking on the cheap I'd buy a Jade Mace and fill the other slots with anything free (handouts, bronze, ringmail, leather off orcs, etc). Fighting in The Warrens for example you will likely loot random armor to fill your slots.
Once you hit lvl 20 and the dmg cap gets increased you can sell the Jade Mace and get a Mace of the Shadowed Soul for about the same cash. If you will likely use a Noc Blade you can do the same thing with a Lammy (except the Noc is more expensive). It's the fastest grind to lvl 30 for sure.
Make sure you can buy a nerfed Circlet of Shadows for about 200p since it works at level 20...10 levels before you get gather shadows.
If you plan to do some group work get a cheap 2h or 2hb. Aggro matters more than your dps and with disease cloud that is easy, so keep your 2h skills up when grouping. Post 30 when the damage cap lifts, the dps from a Jade Green Halberd or Deathbringer Rod are going to be hard to beat for the money they cost. Having a 1h and shield will come in handy in certain situations but if cash is scarce id dump them to fund the ideal 2h.
If you want to level much slower you can get like a Jade Green Broadsword, shield and get some banded armor and hp rings. You will look cool but it all depends if that matters. Until you get Engulfing Darkness solo work is mostly a tank-n-spank so killing a npc slowly is a rough way to go...
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