Guild Wars 2

More so than how arenas are implemented I would like to know what type of combat people imagine they would like in strict 3v3 or 5v5 situations mostly focusing on the quality of combat over arbitrary balance concerns.

Such as what is an acceptable time range to kill another player/team. The role of support and its prevalence. What type of hit delay skills should have. Counterplay ideas, etc.

I’ll start it off by giving my own opinion in brief.
I think time to kill (ttk) should be set at a point where getting the jump gives a decent advantage but doesn’t totally eclipse the rest of the combat. It is why I am not a big fan of mobas where ttk can be 1-5s and the game is mostly about the map as opposed to character execution. Gw2 is much more my style though maybe the ranges are a bit too wide? At least when it comes to an individual build as opposed to the influence of outside support.

Considering specializations are supposed to be more support oriented I think there is opportunity for combat to evolve. To me support becomes rather important when ttk is meant to break well past the 5s mark. At the start of the fight there is positional organization and in 5s fights the cost to break your opponents organization and go for the high value targets has a large opportunity cost. However for longer ttk the opportunity cost is much less where the choice is always charge the high value targets. Defensive support roles end up reestablishing more structure which comes with strategic choice of pushing harder or keeping safe as seen in Gw1. I played a monk so might be biased.

Any other factors of good combat you find lacking overall? Yeah less passive engi stuff and well passive play for all classes would be nice. I don’t think enough skills have high enough opportunity cost to use. I might be able to put some of the feedback to use myself in a project I am working on as well.

King of the hill , some kinda hall of heros styles the new stronghlod could be good , but not for 5v5 , needs to be 8v8/10v10 with elite guild ladder in game gvg ftw