In my game the fighter has a short sword +3 and a short sword +1 shapechanger bane. He only knows the second is +1 and is trying to figure out why it sometimes flares up in combats. It is a bit ironic that in the last adventure he and another PC were infected by lycanthropes.
My Dm was a penny pincher- all's I gots was a +1 greatsword.
the party didnt get anything of value until i DMed for a couple sessions and handed out obscene amounts of money. And them rejoined the game as cleric with craft weapons and wondrous items. Now the orgue has a +4 frost bow and the fighter has a +5 whip and the cleric (yours truly) has a +5 spell storing mace.
Needless to say, I am two one and a half lvls behind the others (rogue is almost 20, and i am dangling on 18)