Is there a point to anything but fire?

The "point" to anything other than fire goes beyond just effectiveness and is surely the reason we play games in the first place; for fun and entertainment. I have a number of blasters and corruptors with a range of different primaries that have nothing to do with their raw performance and everything to do with how much fun they are to play.

For example, I have a sonic / electric blaster called Megafone. He's at level 44, and I haven't played him in a while because he does tend to be a bit squishy solo. Maybe thats because of the way I play, maybe the build is less than optimum. Maybe it's even because Sonic performs less well with Elec than other sets or combos might. I don't care - defeating your enemies by shouting at them never gets old.

AR and Archery T9 are nice. Better than most nukes considering the recharge and end drain.
This still have average/bad DPA, Firaball alone is just crazy good. Like I said the best AoE would be imo AR/TA but considering the powerset alone Fire is supperior due to higher DPA.

Even with Rain of Fire being bugged. It's still an extremely long DoT. Yeah, it's potential damage is quite impressive....

...too bad it's rare that it actually gets to do it's full damage. I again point out that this is the exact reason moves like Ball Lightning are simply 'meh' to most min/maxers or people who scream 'moar damage'

Meh, I guess it's just personal taste. Fire's AoE is Average simply due to Fireball to me if not less than stellar unless you have tons of +recharge (then we're splitting hairs).

Fire is over rated. It's extra damage is still in DoT form and thus it's usefulness is is questionable. If you like it, you like it but don't try and say that it is the de-facto bestest set evar you sound ignorant when you do.

Fire's really good. If you feel like DOTs are bad, though, it's not the set for you.

I24 Water: Damage, Controls, Heal, Ranged Nuke.

It douses fire.

ICE may also freeze out fire.

Honestly fire has a great appeal to it, many of the great Flavor of the Month's have had Fire Blsat... Fire/Mental Blasters, Fire/Cold Corruptors, Fire/Dark Corruptors, and many, many more I'm missing. I guess the answer to your question is yes, there is a point to non-fire blasting toons. Secondary affects pretty much covers it all.

If you go Electric you get some solid End Drain and a pet. It's cool to play an Elec/Dark as a corruptor and have up to 3 pets with your Mastery, and up to 5 if you pick up Lore.

Sonic obviously offers great control and resistance debuffs making each attack do more damage.

Ice blast's Blizzard is probably the best nuke available to Corruptors because it benefits most from scourge, and as targets die the new ones that walk into the patch they're damaged by it's affects while most other nukes just drop the intial targets. It pairs really well with the Ice Storm in Ice Blast and other rain type powers. (Sleet or Freezing Rain)

Rad Blast is a very powerful set as well, often underestimated. Has 2 really solid AOE attacks, you can perma stun a boss, and every attack lowers your enemies defense significantly (often helpful for kins who need accuracy for their powers)

Dark Blast's -ToHit, self heal, and control makes it very powerful many people are even able to tank with Dark/Dark Corruptors as Dark/Dark Defenders do.

Obviously there are many more options but these are just a few reasons to pick powersets other than fire.

Well, with the snipe change, AR now gets great ST damage to go with its great AOE damage. It will give fire a run for its money and maybe even surpass it, assuming you can keep your +tohit high enough. I liked AR even before, can't wait.

Well with the patch notes for I24 it looks like the pseudopets are being corrected, which will take Ice out of the picture.

I made my Fire/Cold Corruptor instead of a Defender because of the unfair Blaster values in Rain of Fire for Corruptors, even though it meant giving up the self heal proc in the Defender set and waiting till 35 to get my double rain with Sleet.

But, I still think its good that these adjustments are being made. I didn't like making that decision at that time. And I doubt I'll really notice the slightly lower damage from one power to be honest. Sleet-Rain of Fire will still rock.