Your agro is generated mainly by your spells so you needn't worry as far as that goes.
There's also some nice 1h options available such as the 19/24 ebon mace.
Supposedly if the AC soft caps are in place as I understand them then the AC in your shield slot is much more valuable than AC in your other slots. Given that, and bash, using a shield is certainly a sensible thing...particularly if you're poorly geared when people are used to having twinked tanks take a beating for them.
In the end of course it just depends on what you have available to equip yourself with. Even if you don't use a 1h weapon ALL the time, I think bash/slam is a tool every tank should have available at least in their backpack if applicable.
When an SK joins my low/midleveled group and is average geared I prefer seeing them holding a shield. High level, well that just depends on their budget.
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