I don’t see a point to it. You can’t use it to go over anything but land. No “jumping” over areas to get from one side to the other. Is this a useless ability? What am I missing? It’s slow so I don’t see it used in combat.
It’s to juke out a player in PvP. Works especially well when combined with mage blinks.
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In warsong gultch and that other capture the flag BG if you get the flag you can go onto the upper ledge and if the enemy team storms you cast spatial rift racing the wall then leap down and hopefully they follow then port back up there Idk
Basically what Epheria said, juking ppl in PvP ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There have been people on the forums to have a whole list long of uses in PvP and even some in PvE but I can’t think of it at the moment, I can only think about troll master race
Blink, Blink, Rift, Blink back, Rift forward.
Juked.
It’s basically a very specialized racial for arenas and maybe a few battlegrounds. In an arena, it can provide a way to have options between being behind a pillar and out in the open, which can be highly useful. For most players, it’s basically useless.
It’s an incredibly powerful arena racial.
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Honestly I never added it to my VE monk rotation. Does seem useful with mages or warlocks.
It can be used to pre-emptively dodge raid mechanics too when your familiar with the fight.
Shoot it out, get a cast or two out, then port to it.
It has some nice, niche uses, but they can be less obvious than other racials in application.
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Easy to get out of raid mechanics or get back into a boss easily.
It has niche use in pvp and… that’s about it. In pve gameplay it has very little practical use. I wish it worked like the upcoming Venthyr teleport, even or even just a plain old Mage Blink, but as it is, outside of pvp, it isn’t really useful at all. I’d much rather it be a ground targeted teleport.
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I’d agree with this if the little shadow that slides across the ground wasn’t abysmally slow and the timer to re-click wasn’t excruciatingly short. I mean, you can outrun the little shadow thing before it actually gets there. That’s how slow it is.
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Cast spacial rift, continue moving and dpsing, cast spacial rift again in a few seconds! Woah you teleported while dpsing.
I find Spatial Rift incredibly useful, truth be told.
True, it’s not a reactive / immediate ability like many others but it IS a phenomenal tactical spell. The only trick is that you have to plan on how you want to use it. Which can be unique at first but once you start getting more comfortable with it, the more uses you can get out of it.
Some examples:
- Juking in PvP is a great one
- Believe it or not, the same thing applies to PvE mobs; every time you move locations, most mobs need to “think” about it for a moment, so that along with the extra distance you get provides more attack opportunities
- Use it to aggro some mobs near a WQ item / goal, then zip over to it so you can grab it while mobs are away / distracted / rooted
- Can avoid a LOT of mechanics when times well
- Great for pulling pranks on friends and immediately disappearing around corners!
So yeah, I personally love the ability. 
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We had a guy solo one of the orbs on G’huun, using Rift was one of the integral parts of him being able to solo.