why tho, what is it you think a shield brings to the table?
Without a lot of shield focus, overguard+absolution+shield maiden etc etc, to massively bump up block chance, block recovery and amount blocked, shields don’t add much defence, and serve mostly as stat sticks. Then without phys res or such it’s not even as much a defensive stat stick on top.
Shields don’t even work on most/a lot of attack types to begin with, but on top of that the ones they do work on are rng layered with a cooldown, so you don’t even have a safety that it’s then applying to the attacks you actually want it on.
There are so many weapon attackers and specially casters demonstrating reliable safety without a shield, - while then not mandating you make extra sacrifices just to get shieldmaiden/obelisk/block numbers decently up on left side devos/extra items.