There are other items you can hold in your hands like icons, and stick-like objects that will give a raise to energy and skills, but if your going sword, i would go shield because soem shields will really give you some good skill boosts. I didn't …
The game isn't an mmorpg, but it is... if that makes sense, people call it a corpg(competitive online role-playing game). Its not the same as other mmorpgs. I think its 100 times better though.