Cannot equip 1hand and shield while disarmed

Hey I just wondered if this is working as inteded, and Im asking you players of warmane not the GMs. This is not a bug report.

I have never seen it being this way for as long as I played here.
Today I see that if I get disarmed by a WARRIOR or a SHADOWPRIEST (psychic horror), as a warrior myself, I cannot change to a shield by using a 1hand and shield macro.

The way it have always worked on warmane is that if you are disarmed and then you equip a one handed weapon then that weapon is disarmed aswell for the duration but atleast then you have a shield equipped and can use Reflection or Shieldwall for example.
While being disarmed by a rogue its a diffrent story since it clearly says in the rogue ability "dismantle" that:
Disarm the enemy, removing all weapons, SHIELD or other equipment carried for 10 sec.

Im trying to google something like: "cannot change weapon while disarmed" to find posts about this from around 2010 or so. I cannot find anyhing.

Have anyone of you played retail in wotlk and know about how this is supposed to work?


EDIT:
I have found a way to use SuperDuperMacro to circumvent this problem somewhat, if any other warrior is in need of this.

/run if IsEquippedItemType ("Two-Handed Axes") then PickupInventoryItem(16)PutItemInBackpack() end
/equip Wrathful Gladiator's Handaxe
/equip Wrathful Gladiator's Shield Wall

If I spam this I go into shield while im still disarmed, but once the disarm is over I still havent equipped my one hand yet, so it requires you to press the macro one more time after you are no longer disarmed.
This will basically do the same thing as the old but simple /equip macro but now also let you use your shield while being disarmed.

If you are using 2hand sword or mace then you can have "Two-Handed Maces" or Two-Handed Swords" after the isEquippedItemType line, inside the parenthesis.