Since Diablo 4 launched last year, though, there have been legions of fans asking Blizzard to make a class using a sword and shield. In other words, your archetypical 'Paladin' character.
They are typically seen wearing heavy armor and wielding a sword and shield, but they are ideal ... the course of nearly 50 years of identical Paladin tropes. It is also far too late for D&D ...