Personally I like the shield gfx.
As to its stats, they are decent, though most people I am sure would prefer shields with better combat stats.
Thing is, when the Forest Shield was released, GK was totally different. Today every other player has a SoHD and flip with hotkeys between their PMoP and their Mithril.
Today, the event item pirate belt has worse stats than a craftable glok belt.
I think the Samurai boots are overkill, they were supposed to have negative wc to offset their other good stats, but the - wc actually improved the wc capacity to hit instead of hinder due to a bug with
every EA used. Instead of fixing it, the staff just lowered one of the other stats or something like that.
I personally think GK would be better if stats where not so high and the game itself was harder to play, instead of really easy with the only factor being how much time you spend at the keyboard mining xp.
Anyway, don't blame the Zormite shield for moderately decent stats.