Shield Charge got changed to reflect the scrapper melee modifier. It now does over 50% more damage than it used to. Muhaha.
I would love to hear your thoughts on MA/Shield. Or see your build even. I made a MA/Shield a couple months ago as an homage to a Certain Patriotic Hero 
And I love it, he is my main now and I've spent the most him than any other toon (that's not saying much).
Well, I was a bit of a pioneer -- I'm at least kinda sure I was the first MA/Shield to level 50 on Victory, certainly one of, and of forum-using players, I was one of the first overall. I was working on his softcap build on pencil and paper before Mids' was updated 
I don't think I still have his build in a file, so I'll have to recreate it in Mids' to link it.
What I remember most about him is the excellent burst AOE combo of BU+AAO+SC+DT. It was actually more effective to just wade in and do it all in melee, rather than using SC to enter combat (putting the AAO after). If the modifier has changed, I'm sure it'll be even more fantastic. So far I haven't done much with him. I'm literally having to relearn how to play, I changed my playstyle and use of keyboard and all completely for... that other game.
By far the favorite character I've played in any MMO, you can't go wrong. And RallyPoint, too, is a loose homage to Cap, I just wrote his own little mythology to make him fresh.
Can't neglect my other three Scrapper 50s, either, but Rally is definitely the favorite.
So, does that arc still exist with all the player characters?
So I've spent several months in another world, where the tanks are scrappers, the scrappers are blasters, and the blasters fall over if you blow on 'em. Where the defenders never buff or debuff and a controller's best move might make someone stop to tie their shoe. I've spent months learning to cringe at the word pug not because of whacky fun like FF defenders hitting PFF and saying "ready!" but more because they mean constant beratement and hostility from total strangers (which I've never found in CoH, and didn't know to appreciate it before). Months scheduling the kind of content that I would just ask for in a forum channel and set up on 20 minutes notice.
Bah, fleh, and meh. I'm back.
I've got tons to do -- gotta go back to editing my Coyote Task Force which has gotten pleasing reviews but is also bugged as crap in my absence apparently. But I wanted to announce myself again, ask if MA/Shield still kicks butt (I may post my build later and check if it's been altered by patches), and find out if the scrapper challenge is still out there with all our Scrappers in it.