Doesnt matter if your a boxer or not the only time geared never mattered was on my shs rogue.. From blue pve gear(with the S1 wepons) to fully s1 gear the change was 300 resillience and 4k more hp. I could survive for ages just on evasion,clos,cheat death0 and vanish, actually the survivability was insane compared to playing my blue geared resto druid.