The shield skills are based on the weight of the SHIELD. Raising the damage mods will make it decent, adding it to be effected by weapon cards would make it semi on par with LK classes. LKs can be made into a full reflect defensive class. And at times, the reflect LK can be better than a reflect pally. Terminus' reflect builda long time ago proved it.
@conor/
Swarmed by pallies? PvP is already swarmed by LKs, Champs, Sinxs, some devos pallies, creators, some ws, snipers, Gunslingers, clowns AND Gypsy. Making a pally a little offensive wont screw anything up, just adding variety to its class.
I'm sure people are just afraid that their precious DPS high output damage would finally have a challenge.