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I know this thread is years old, but I am looking up stuff to help with building my two shield fighter. I'm really surprised no one remarked about how silly this thread is, how is a magically enchanted off-hand weapon that does 2d6 dmg OP? 1d6 of that comes from a magical enchantment which can't be put on unless you've already paid for a +1 bonus, so you're looking at a +2 bonus cost item (which, granted, is cheaper to put on a shield than it is to put on a sword.) Still, you're talking about how you can make a 1d6 weapon deal 2d6 after putting a costly magical enchantment on it... you can do that with any weapon... make deal +1d6 of any elemental damage you want. Shields only have the 5% crit range, unless you get the exotic serrated shield, which would cost you another feat.
I second the opinions of a lot of commenters before me:
With the right feats shields can do ok damage and give great AC bonuses.. this seems fitting, that's the point of having a shield. But with the right feats (and with fewer needed in comparison, meaning you can get to higher dmg at lower levels) you can do great damage, and have the possibility for massive damage with the higher crit threat, with two weapons and even get some AC out of it.

First of all, Rangers don't have an Aragorn weapon style.. Aragorn uses a single sword, or his bow.. except in the case of Weathertop but in that situation it was worth the penalties to dual-wield with an improvised weapon.
Second, who only looks at the core rules when rolling a character? just go on the d20pfsrd.com, they gots the ranger variations you are looking for... or work with your gm and make your own.