Axe

Attack Type: Chop, Pierce for picks and stalactites
Fast for: Ranger	Viable for: Paladin, Shapeshifter
Uniques: None

Pros: Common, usually lightweight, chop is good due to few armors protecting against it.
Cons: No uniques, limited high end choices
High End Choices: Choppingweapon and Stalactite are both good hard hitters, but stalactite is pretty heavy (8) so you will have to expect more misses with it. Butterfly wing axe hits pretty good as well.
Two Weapon Choices: Butterfly wing axe gets bonus hits and hooked axe makes it easier to get offhands hits so they work well together. Wield the hooked axe in your main hand and when you fight things that have weapons or shields you'll see "You hook your opponent's weapon/shield with your axe, pull it aside and land a blow with your off-hand!" Dwarven mining picks just dual well in general, but nothing special.

Suggested skill progression:

Also you can use the list below to find an appropriate weapon for your skill range.

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
0-5	A small, worthless pick	1	1	Scythe Camp	Elven Slave	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
0-5	A shovel	1		Monastery		Average	Very Poor	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
5-10	A meat cleaver	2	1	Haunted Manor	Meat Cleaver	Average	Poor	One Handed
5-10	A pickaxe	2	1	Tantallon Park	Nemaset the Dwarf	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	A hoe	1	1	Arcadia	Zack, the farmer's son	Average	Poor	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
10-15	A small pickaxe	2	1	Dwarven Mines	Small Dwarven Guard	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	A square	1	1	Quarry	A mason	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	A tiny axe	1	1	Sydryth	Assorted tree sprites	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	A wood axe	3	1	Hobbitat	Hobbits	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	A wooden pick	1	1	Dwarven Mines	Small Dwarf	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	An achetus	2	1	Quarry	A quarry journeyman	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	A shovel	2	1	Blors Cavern	Found by searching	Average	Poor	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
15-20	A bigbladed axe	3	3	Ravel	Goblin Warrior	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	A hand axe	2	2	Various	orcs, goblins, ogres	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	A sharp cleaver	2	2	Fairy Ring	Fairy Cook	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	An old hatchet	2	3	Dalair	Bugbear	Average	Very Poor	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
20-30	A bloody meat Axe	2	4	Nepeth	Village Butcher	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	A bronze hatchet	2	4	Morin Farm	Twist, an aged tinker	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	A green painted shovel	2	4	Ravel	Zeb	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	A hurlbat (T)	2	5	Dalair	Weapon Seller	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	A large stalactite	8	5	Star Caverns	Star Caverns	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	A mining pick	2	4	Iceforge Clan Forge	A lean miner	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	A pick	2	4	Rodentid Temple	Bradbury	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	A rusty pickaxe	2		Zombie Miners	A bloated dwarven zombie	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	A short-hafted Axe	3	5	Zhamarr	Grumpy Dwarf	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	A simple axe	2	5	Dymwood Gnomes	Bolabi-Gnebur	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	A steel axe	4	4	Shieldhand Clan	A group of five soldiers	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	An antique battleaxe	3		Neville	Oterim the Sage	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	An elven axe	3	4	Elven Nature Preserve	Valendil, the preserve warden	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	An ivory pick	2	4	North orcs caves	Minyon, the impuissant orc	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	An old pick	2	4	Anakim	Found by searching	Average	Poor	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
30-35	A sharp axe	4	6	Underground Forest	Tall Guardian	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	A stanaxe	2	6	Quarry	Borro	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	A trolloc axe	3	7	Greenhaven	Trolloc Watcher	Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	A hooked axe	2	7	Shieldhand Clan	Farur, advisor to Torran	Greater than Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	A meat cleaver	2	7	Orc Mountain	A huge orc cook	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
30-35	A pickaxe	2	7	Underground Forest	Zombie Miner	Average	Poor	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
35-45	A hunter's axe	3	8	Gralains Tomb	Gralain's Tomb	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
35-45	An orcish handaxe	2	9	Dalair	Orc Chieftan	Average	Poor	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
45-55	A double-sided battleaxe(one hand)	4	<12	Nepeth	Hanness the Smith	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One or Two
45-55	A killer axe	3	11	Neville	Bonebreaker, Old Smith	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
45-55	A tomahawk (T)	3	11	Anasazi	Indian Guard	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
45-55	A butterfly wing axe	2	10<12	Shieldhand Clan	Old Ulgar	Average	Serviceable	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
55-65	A choppingweapon	3	13	Blors Cavern	Dwarven Guard	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
55-65	A mithril mining pick	2	12	Iceforge Clan Forge	Vadsa the foreman	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
55-65	An iron bearded axe	3	12	Felgands training camp	Khal, the pathfinder	Average	Adequate	One Handed

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
65-85	A dwarven mining pick	2	14	Dwarven Mines	Dwarven Miner	Average	Serviceable	One Handed