Yeah for my next melee character, I plan on using Kinetic Melee which really needs looking at, but to make it 'work', I plan on proc'ing the ever living hell out of the attacks, but in order to do that I need an armor set that doesn't need IO set bonuses from the melee set in order to do what it was designed for. That pretty much means SR for the most part.
I am pretty much giving up a lot of set bonuses and the idea of using a different armor set in order to make KM 'work'.