While rocket barrage is shit, i value the Rocket jump and the increased haste racial over it. Gift of the Naaru can be quite good too, i have a spacegoat mage with high crit and the heal ticks crit majority of the time, leading to a decent heal. I've never found panda racial's useful though.
"This is no swaggering askari, no Idi Amin Dada, heavyweight boxing champion of the King's African Rifles, nor some wide shouldered, medal-strewn Nigerian general. This is an altogether more dangerous dictator - an intellectual, a spitefull African Robespierre who has outlasted them all." - The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the martyrdom of Zimbabwe, Peter Godwin.