Why is there such an abundance of decent lowbie weapons except spears?

Quite a quite few spears that nearly compare to a jewelled broadsword. I consider that pretty good for a lowbie weapon.

Yeah... name three.

Two that are marginally better than a practice spear and that are obtainable at the 10th rank (possibly depending on alignment) are the long bone-handled javelin and another one that's a quest reward.

Two that are slightly worse than a jeweled broadsword and that are (arguably) obtainable at the 20th rank (possibly depending on alignment) are the gythka and short spear.

You're right in that they don't grow on trees- those are the only ones that came to mind. It is highly likely there are some I'm not thinking of (or that I don't know about to begin with).

a short spear

steel-bladed gythka

a long stone-tipped spear

We sell (barter permitted) a limited spear for a reasonable price in an easily accessed location.

While spears aren't the most common weapon by a long shot, the sheer number of objects in the game by now means that any common category is covered to some extent.

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