Best cheap Dagon starter build?

I've been using Arbalests on my Dagon, and while 6 of them together do a fair amount of damage, I feel that they're severely held back by the recharge speed. What other weapons (aside from punishers) would perform well on the Dagon? And I'm talking weapons that can be bought with gold/silver, none of the component based ones, because I need weapons that are cheap and available but do decent damage in numbers.