Quote Originally Posted by krud View Post
Have you ever actually tried this? With a 1min duration it's a pain in the arse having to constantly refresh it. Relying on short term clickies and scrolls for buffs makes these melee worse than paladins as far as number of clicks and gear swaps required before jumping into combat. I'll take innate or long duration abilities over gear swapping and short term buffs any day.
I don't have UMD on my 12 Fighter/6 Monk/2 Ranger, so I have to cycle through 14 Shield goggle clickies when I'm tanking.

You can get Shield Wands that last for 10+ minutes.