Talk:Rift Surge/@comment-46.242.9.144-20181228050629/@comment-2600:1702:281:1870:A577:4548:7502:4D45-20181228191528

Rift Surge is definitely a confusing ability to work with, at first, but once you fiddle around with it, you'll realize all the potential plays you can pull off with it.

One good use of rift surge is popping it before your cataclysm ends so enemies will stay in the rift and you can either refresh Cataclysm over those enemies or recast it to another location. In essense, rift surge acts as a pseudo-Cataclysm without having to worry about the effective area shrinking.

Another use is, like you said, banishing more people back into the rift. Normally, you would do something like "exit rift > banish > reenter" or "go in rift > cataclysm" if you want to force enemies to the rift every time, but with rift surge, it goes like "exit rift > banish > reenter > rift surge > banish > repeat last two steps" or "enter rift > cataclysm > rift surge > repeat last step" and you can pull enemies into the rift without endangering yourself (assuming you're keeping stasis up, which you should be doing).

Rift Surge has the potential to be an amazing ability but is really wonky to use if you don't know how to use it. Just practice with it, take note of the interactions and soon you'll learn how it works and it'll grow on you.