I dunno if I'm just unlucky or haven't been exploring in the right places, but I'm up to ALnor/ PondoCrofanedand I have two straight swords ._. I really want to change my broadsword... hopefully before the item that upgrades it to +7 starts appearing.apital
You should have a pretty good wealth of weapons by this point. Have you transposed any boss souls yet? Also, some of the rare-placed harder enemies drop good weapons, so definitely don't run away from them.