Guild Wars 2

With all the discussions where people complaining they got killed in 1s, and people praising the fast pace game, I want to ask a different question.

What is the target time to kill (TTK) that the balance team should aim for?

This can help the devs a lot by giving better signals on how to balance/tweaks

Please answer the 3 questions, assuming all skills are equal.

1. what do you think is a good expected TTK for 1v1, min, and max
2. how about 1v2?
3. how about 1v3?

My thoughts:

1. TTK for 1v1 should be around 15-30s. Min 5s (fights shouldn’t last too short, reduce insta burts). Max 60s (fights shouldn’t last too long)
2. TTK for 1v2 should be around 10-15s. Min 3s (2 people should win faster). Max 30s (people should die faster in 1v2)
3. TTK for 1v3 should be around 10s. Min 3s (3 people don’t necessarily kill faster than 2 because of block/aegis/invul). Max 20s (basically people should die as soon as there defensive cooldown are out)

What do you think should be the target TTK?

This doesn’t even make sense, it’s going to be different for every single matchup and there are a huge number of factors to take into account. Even then, I’m never going to be able to run into a 1vX and know how long it’s going to take.
I killed a top ele the other day (who had no cds) in under 20 seconds, I ran into that fight expecting an endless stalemate.

My thoughts:
1. TTK for 1v1 should be around ~infinite*.
2. TTK for 1v2 should be role dependant. Too many thing that can have influence here (e.g. Moa)…

*If players are equally skilled they should be able to be engaged until one of them doesn’t get +1 by team mate or other doesn’t do crucial mistake.