That this shield is neither Druid nor Wizard usable is important. To an erudite who can't teleport or couldn't afford the price for a port, it used to take forever to travel to Qeynos on the boat back in the days before PoP porting existed. Money and uber items were also a lot harder to come by when this zone was created, so for the erudites, being more or less cut off from the rest of the world like they are, something like this was like a gift from God. Now admittedly it's just a magic kite shield with a couple of very minor bonuses, but a lot of people probably carried these things for a long time until they could afford something better.
Edited, Tue Sep 9 22:33:02 2003