It sounds like I have been overruled!
I just got so annoyed with tanks who would use 2-hander against hard hitting stuff and wonder why they died. Herpderp Shield AC is awesome cause it goes over softcaps. Plus it is like having another slot of gear for HP/Stats/AC generally speaking. (And mostly this was after the Shield Block AA was added, which was enormous mitigation)
For soloing, I can see 2-Handers being good. When I soloed my paladin up through classic levels I just used a Ghoulbane for most of it until 50ish. I think my rationale back then (probably 2000-2001~) was that I spent a large amount of time camping Ghoulbane and the proc was so fancy. And I also figured Ghoulbane out DPSed any 2hander I had access to at the time. With Baton of Faith being as cheap as it is, no harm in grabbing one and testing it out though! Probably out DPSes Ghoulbane with bad Dex.
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