When should you use Dimension Door?

[Charles]

I've noticed that Dimension Door is a rather finicky spell. I tend to use it outside of combat to poke around and explore. Sometimes it seems like its intended to be used in such a way, for example in Areelu's Lab There is a door that is "broken" but you can use DD to go inside and there is a chest with some generic loot. You can also use it to bypass the abyssal barriers without the key which seems less intended. However, in the Dragon cave with the egg you can brick the quest by gaining entry too early.

This makes me not want to use it for fear of breaking quest lines that I don't wish to muck around with toybox to fix. I guess I am just wandering if there are any good clues as to when I should use it, and when it will break things.

As a side note it reminds me of a rather nice use of it in kingmaker where you could skip a looooooooooong boring fetch quest to get into a tomb that a dude has been trying to escape for a long time. Guess he should have gotten a scroll for DD!

[gmwaddington]

In act 4, there's some areas which are only reachable with Dimension Door (eg. on a building roof).

[Don Montega]

In battle the only use for it, as i am an Eldritch Knight/Wizard Summoner, is to teleport my party of melee combattants minus archer and caster directly into the fray.
Preferrably as a quick cast via rod, to maximize attack actions.
I run turn based mode, so given on the situation it is very powerful.

Apart from that it is an exploration tool indeed.

[hilburnashua]

I used to use it in Kingmaker in the House at the End of the World to get the melees into range of the summoners that were such a problem.

In Wrath? Pretty much just to get into areas that seem bugged, like the door to the Swarm guy. In one of my playthroughs it couldn't be opened and I had to bypass it and the next door with Ddoor. And getting on top of some of the buildings in Act IV. Unfortunately there isn't much opportunity to make use of terrain to block melee, which would be the only other use I could find for this spell.

[Charles]

Thanks for the suggestions guys! I would love to hear more uses for it. I really like the idea of DD, even if it requires asking yourself "am I breaking something by using it here?".

[Storm]

Enigma

[Battler]

You can use it for speedrunning game in 3 hours.

[gmwaddington]

I needed to use Dimension Door in Mutasafen's laboratory (Angel path), to teleport over a trap that otherwise couldn't be disarmed.