Awrath's pretty much got it right. I didn't find knight hard to grind at all, actually. Slower to kill stuff than a barbarian, but with the right armor plus knocks I was able to grind nearly nonstop, with no resting.
About the level 1 skills, the main reason they were used a long time ago is because level 1 skills used to cost no power points, if you had the tree leveled up to that skill. They do more than your normal hits (although not by much) and more importantly, you can't "phantom swing" on them. I'm not sure phantom swings are as huge of a problem now as they used to be, and you no longer get the first level of powers free... so if you're going to use charge or forceful blow or whatever, you may as well level it as high as you can.
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