Kick vs. Boxing?

I'm trying to decide between the two for my DM/FA.

The general consensus has always been Kick sucks, presumably because of the activation time.


Is there any upside? DM is all punches, and I think it'd be cool to mix it up and boot someone in the gut.

Well I assume you're mainly taking the fighting pool for tough, correct? If that's the case, I really don't think it matters too much because DM has a pretty solid attack chain on its own, and neither kick nor boxing are going to add that much to it. But if you want to slot it up, I'd recommend boxing. Quicker activation than kick I think, and a slight chance to disorient.

Edit: If you want to take one of the powers for looks, then you'd be alright to take kick. It would add a little variety to DM like you mentioned.

You're right. I'm mainly going for Tough, and now that I look at it, Boxing isn't even slotted.

Might as well take Kick just for the flair.


Thanks for the quick response.

If it's not slotted, then obviously it doesn't matter.

IF you're using it as a mule... boxing has access to the stun sets which gives you another purple option and it has a few nicer positional defense options, also.

Kick has access to the knockback sets, which I've never found myself wanting.

They both, of course, have access to the melee sets which have good stuff.

I find in most of my builds boxing gets mako's bite, kinetic combat, razzle dazzle, or absolute amazement. All of those can be in boxing... 2 of those can be in kick.

For DPS boxing vs Kick, boxing is superior.

Very informative.


I always knew "Boxing is better", but I guess was never smart enough to figure why.


Thanks.

Counterpoint: It's always funny to me to defeat an enemy with kick.

Me: I told you to stop shooting at me, didn't I?
*puntinthenethers*
Badguy: "hLuuurggg"
-- badguy falls over.

I always choose kick for the FF +rech proc. I figure why not.

On the 3 of the 8 scrappers I have or had the fighting pool. I got a "kick" out of kicking snipers off the rooftops in Founders and PI. Other then that, short of fighting someone that has put my recharge in the crapper, that power dosent see the light of activation. And the fact that I'm anti set mules, it doesn't matter what power is going to sit and not get used. So, with that being said, I take kick over boxing for the "kicks".

I took kick on my DM/SR
for a couple reasons, first the variety, throw a kick in their for flavor, it also gives DM something it lacks... Knockback, I put a +Neg NRG proc on it so sometimes it does my damage type, but a +20% kb from Kinetic combat would almost make it viable as a consistent KB... I did say almost.