Recruit's Shortsword

Our MoP Classic item table (the Blizzard item records our Auction House scanner has collected) has 5 other main hand sword items between item level 1 and 6; 0 of them carry fixed stats.

• Its 0.5 damage per second ranks 5th of 6 main hand sword items in this group; Keen Machete (item level 6) has the most, 1.7.
• Attack speeds among the 6 main hand sword items in this group run from 1.80 seconds (Keen Machete) to 2.50 seconds (Deadman Blade); it swings every 1.90 seconds.
• Cheapest listed main hand sword items at a similar or higher item level: Keen Machete at 4,999 gold98 silver (item level 6), Pitted Defias Shortsword at 9,999 gold99 silver (item level 4).
• Other weapon types for the main hand slot within 2 item levels of 1: one-handed mace (5): Large Bear Bone, Worn Mace, Neophyte's Mace; one-handed axe (2): Worn Axe, Deadman Cleaver; miscellaneous (1): Blacksmith Hammer.

Item	Item level	Requires	DPS	Fixed stats	Lowest listed
Recruit's Shortsword	1	-	0.5 (1.90s)	none	-
Worn Shortsword	1	-	0.5 (1.90s)	none	-
Deadman Blade	3	-	0.8 (2.50s)	none	-
Dull Blade	3	-	1.1 (1.90s)	none	-
Pitted Defias Shortsword	4	-	1.0 (2.00s)	none	9,999 gold99 silver
Keen Machete	6	-	1.7 (1.80s)	none	4,999 gold98 silver