It's the notion of constantly reapplying short duration buffs with short cooldown. Take world of warcraft for example, it used to have a lot of 2 minute, 5 minute and 10 minute buffs that it cost nothing but a button click to refresh, so it was just busywork, and blizzard eventually moved most of them into hour long, or permanently active buffs.Cortex wrote: As for the fun factor, this is an interesting topic to touch on. Why do you think it isn't fun? What about it is different from other buff oriented builds/classes? Worth to keep in mind Heroic Shield and Oath of Wrath are both free actions. And I don't expect you'll use each of the abilities every encounter.
There obviously is some cooldown on these abilities for the knight, but it's pretty short, especially for your focused path, those you could probably keep up every fight depending on how quickly your party clears through things, so it just seems like unecessary busywork to have to reapply the buff every fight, even bards can get a feat that let's them keep their bard song on for a significantly longer period of time without constant reapplication.