Fire is slightly higher damage, rad is more accurate and has DEF debuffs. Rad also has a very nice single target stun/hi-damage power. Both are AoE-biased. Choose whichever you want, they don't differ too much.
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Rad also has a very nice single target stun/hi-damage power.
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And Fire has a very nice very high damage power, with no stun.
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Both are AoE-biased. Choose whichever you want, they don't differ too much.
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If you're going for AoEs, Fire > Rad every time. Rad is much less endurance intensive though.
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Hi Phantom,
First of all, i would suggest to go to the forums guides (US and EU forums) and check about the sinergy of both sets (fire/kin and rad/kin)...
As far as I have heard, the idea of this sets are:
* fire/kin = AoE DOOM. Not much defense, much dmg. U will have problms to control enemies, but what better control than death...
* rad/kin = Nice sinergy. All ur rad powers do -def = u hit more = easier to hit ur kins powers. Also some utilities powers.
IMHO, i have an ice/kin toon (lvl28 rite now) and im loving it as far as i can, easy to teaming, nice to soloing (including EBs). For the way i feel so powerfull, i think u dont need the higher dmg set as for primary, u should need 1 set that provides u some defense, so i would go for rad/kin...
Well, hope ive helped u a bit... BTW, both sets are cool, so u cant fail...
Peace.
thanks for ur help, but in the end i prefer fire (i dont know y, perhaps im gonna be a pyromaniac lol) but yeah i think it will be cool:-)
Ooooouuh, yes, fire/kin definitely is the toy for pyromaniacs. I often team with a friend who plays a fire/kin when I am on my sonic/kin. It´s pure destruction, like Whoooooo!-Whaaaa!-Vroooom! => Deaf enemies´ BBQ. 
But seriously, you will slaughter your opponents, you will be constantly out of endu (until level 35, then it´s the enemies who are) and you will have fun... fast. 
If it has eyes, you can blind it, if it has blood, you can make it bleed, if it has a mouth, you can make it scream.
Forgot to mention (in your new players post) that it is possible to not have a travel power with Kinetics. You can get by with syphon speed (works like a temporary super speed but with no stealth) once you get to lvl 28 (i think) you can get inertial reduction, which works like super jump.
as stated in the new players bored i am new to the game and i was just wondering which is better
Fire/Kenetics
Radiation/kenetics
i ask as i have platyed with both (for like 4 lvls each ish) and i sorta want to settle on one toon to get up to 50 so what would ur advice for a first time player be? :-)
Cheers
Happy Gaming