Why is the Shield Bonus on Isle of Dread shields so Terrible?

[PainStealer]

So maybe I am the last player that cares about AC. However I would like to understand why IoD Heavy Shields only have a Shield AC bonus of +22. Legendary Ferrocrystal Shield Large shield has +27, The Legendary Crystalline Ward is +27, Artemist's Aegis (level 30) is +26. All of these are lower Minimum level than the IoD Large Shield and they all have much better AC. Now some may say it is only 5 AC difference. But after you figure in all the bonuses that a tank can get to a shield it makes quite a difference in effectiveness.

Should not the End Game shield with the highest Minimum level be the best AC?

[Firebreed]

Nothing's changed since the last time we had this discussion:

More than half of the game's shields have at least one category that's bugged/unintended/irrational (usually it's more than one though):

- damage dice
- expanded damage dice
- [W]
- crit profile
- AC
- DR

Maybe one day the devs will take a look at standardizing the random values they've put on shields. And when that's done maybe they'll look at Armors' AC/MDB values too.

Kind of depressing tbh.