Not to flares. Fire Blast is MUCH better.
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Not to flares, there arent really many powers you can pick that are worse IMO.
To be slightly more forthcoming ... flares are t3h suxx0r ...
I was put off them on my fire/dev in the states nearly 2 years ago now... they leave you rooted for an ungodly amount of time compared to the rest of the set. I tried them recently on my fire/kin and they still sucked. YMMV.
I don't like them, if they work for you then good luck to you...
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Personally I don't rate flares very highly, the long animation time/rooting for a comparatively low damage attack make it probably the least desirable power in the set for me.
Interesting comments but I still feel it is a very useful power. I use Blast then Flares then Blaze and usually a white mob goes down if not then Flares is recharged so it finishes the job.
Alien Entity
My villain is fire corruptor and one of the 1st things i respeced out was Flares.. as ppl have said.. the damage on flares suxs.. but at least its better than rain of fire.. but that suxs to 
i totaly skipped flares on my fire/thermal corruptor because its pants 
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OK... Flares goes but Reign of Fire is a must. If I know I'm going to get agro from melee types then I use reign of fire and they run off it has saved my life many times.
I also skipped reign of fire because its pants to
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Wouldn't touch rain of fire in CoH on my blaster as it tends to mess up teams somewhat, however in CoV with the fact there are no tankers but a large amount of people, both corruptors and masterminds, with dark secondary, I find rain of fire and ice storm both quite useful.
Slightly off topic but from a TOTAL damage perspective, Rain of Fire > Firebreath > Fireball.
This is easy to test if you have a fire blaster. Just go and immobilise identical mobs and see how much of their health each attack removes. I did this myself on the test server with my fire/ice blaster. I only had to see this with my own eyes a handful of times before rain of fire got respecced into and 6 slotted for damage.
If you have some way of keeping the mobs inside the rain for 15 seconds then it's for the win.
Yeah, back in beta I used to team my fire blaster very regularly with an ice controller and I had RoF then, I found it fairly effective, particularly at lower level when it's generally taking a little longer to kill the mobs. However he didn't buy the game though so I never took it on the retail version - it wasn't appropriate for the team I was playing with and I've not had it since. In CoV all my corruptors are taking the rain powers though - I cant remember the last time I played in a team that didn't have at least one member with tar patch, usually two or three. Very good fun to use 
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Wouldn't touch rain of fire in CoH on my blaster as it tends to mess up teams somewhat, however in CoV with the fact there are no tankers but a large amount of people, both corruptors and masterminds, with dark secondary, I find rain of fire and ice storm both quite useful.
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Rain of Fire + Tar Patch (best if slotted with slows) = PvE carnage, especially if you can get them cycling at around the same speed.
@Synaesthetix
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...that is the question!
For those who do not know Flares are the first power available to Fire Corruptors.
I say yes, I have 3 Damage and 3 Acc SOs and it is a great power for dealing quick damage at low cost. The fast recharge and low endurance make it a must.
I know this is not the common thinking so discuss...
Alien Entity
L30 Fire/Thermal... why does everyone copy me????