Might take a while, but with your AoEs + Fulcrum Shift, you'll be defeating mobs at quiet a fast pace...you don't want that? 
Also, because it's an AoE, it'll help you defeat mobs quickly, especially when used with Fire Breath and Rain of Fire because of your Scourge effect.
I say get the fiery ball of doom.
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Let me get this straight... You took...flares...and are...happy...with it?
Sorry, I believe you're beyond help.
Agreed. Once you get your Kinetics powers up to speed, Flare's long activation time will likely become very annoying for you.
The only time I've been happy with taking Flares is on my /fire dominator and it fits in nicely in my attack chain, causing my Domination bar to fill up at quiet a fast past - but saying that, that's what I aim for: to build Domination asap.
But as a corruptor, your aim is to get rid of everything asap.
Fulcrum Shifted Flares, anyone? 
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hehe I was just experimenting to see how it goes
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Aggro is only a problem in teams without a tank or a troller.
Your job is buffs and dmg, pref AoE. What Im saying is, you should never have to worry about aggro, if you do you are in the wrong team.
Fireball is my all time favorit power. I love it on my corr, I love it on my troller. I dont really play blasters, mainly cause I suck in PvP with them.
soz, instead of tank/troller, put brute/dom or other aggro builds.
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OK Mr, you win -.- I was tired.
Even if it was optional at low levels, I still would have taken it for the reason I specified.
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is Fireball really that neccessory for a corruptor? since its an AoE magnet any how? 
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If you're not keen on AoEs, why roll a fire corruptor? I love it on my fire/dark, and use it alongside Rain of Fire and Fire Breath on top of a Tar Patch for full AoE madness .
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Let me get this straight... You took...flares...and are...happy...with it?
Sorry, I believe you're beyond help.
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Since my main has war mace, flares look ok in comparison.. At least in the early game.
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soz, instead of tank/troller, put brute/dom or other aggro builds.
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Brute != Tank.
Dom != Controller.
Sure, a brute will possibly take an alpha, do you expect him to be a taunt-bot for you?
And a dom uses their secondary too which, unlike controllers, doesn't normally help with the control/support.
Just sayin'.
But yeah, <3 Fireball.
Considering the massive buffing potential in villains it wouldnt be much of an issue....especially for a Brute backed by Corrs.
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After having it on my main hero, I never took it on LQT, and you saw how my combat style was around the 40s having leveled to that point back in December of last yet on Prue. So would recommend dropping flares, and Fireball, altho more end draining, is very useful, as people mentioned, once fulcrum shifted... Mmm, the explosions
I adore Fireball on my Fire/Rad. Solo I herd up a spawn with my debuffs, then drop Fireball and Fire Breath on them and just watch them melt. Fire Breath is better damage, but its a cone and slower animating, so Fireball is more user-friendly - and in a team you can save it until a few things are hurt, fire it off, and just watch all those lovely Scourge messages floating up.
I didn't take Flares - just Fire Blast and Blaze as single target - but I have EndRdx in my Fireball so if I have End to spare (e.g. when AM is up) and need a boss dead quickly then sometimes I'll chuck in Fireball as a single-target attack - wasteful perhaps, but sometimes I'm more worried about my HP than my End 
Get rid of flares, for the love of god (or satan) get rid of flares! and take fireball for sure. I useualy group mobs together - tar patch - fearsome stare then fireball! works wonders.
Get fireball? Absolutely.
Fireball is great, even before getting Fulcrum Shift. Stack Siphon Power a few times (twice plx!) then fire it off with Aim. Fire Breath after that will give you 10.0 from each judge in the beauty pageon in damage. Post-FS the signs just aren't enough.
If everyone stopped worrying about aggro and took AoE's, players could whip through spawns and levels at a blistering pace.
Take AoE, team with other AoE'ers and laugh.
If you join a team full of single target specialists, groan and leave. You do most of the work, you take most of the risk
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Without Fire ball, you really can not consider yourself a fire corruptor, it is one of our signiture moves.
Used properly with fulcrum shift it rapidly kills off mobs to the extent that the returning aggro is minimal as they are all dead.
For a few ideas on its use see my recently posted guide on Fire/kin Damage suppourt, I hope it helps
Fire/Kin Damage Suppourt Guide
Hey I was curious I decided to roll out a fire/kin corrupter and I decided to take up Flares and Fire Blast as my first 2 powers and so far its been going great fast attack and not much of an end hog either... so I'm curious is Fireball really that neccessory for a corruptor? since its an AoE magnet any how?