The only problem with making Shield Swipe always worth pressing or an off-gcd ability is that it becomes a lot like Bard's Bloodletter - you can just macro it onto every step of your combo and it'll just automagically fire off. Although in that situation you'd only use it in place of Fast Blade or Savage Blade, I guess. I'd really like it if paladin got some form of actual decision making in how it uses WSes and abilities.

At this point I'd take whatever, though. The pacification is cool but so few things are actually affected by it. It also occurs to me that maybe the reason Shield Swipe isn't an amazing skill is because if gladiator was balanced around using it then they'd possibly be weak against caster mobs.