Don't use Sword of Skyfire passed L44, it starts procing the AoE at L45, which leads to bad things. BoF is the best L20+ weapon until epic, 30/40 for 100p can't be beat for paladins. Otherwise, Sword of skyfire + cracked darkwood shield until you can afford sword of morning + sarnak battle shield (clay guardian shield is poor man's sarnak battle shield). But I'd recommend BoF + cultural/DW armor.
While you are low level, I'd remake the half elf if you aren't already Tunare. Nature's Defender is one of the sexiest weapons in existence (decent/ok stats, but B-E-A-utiful):
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