What Would You Most Like to See in a Good Arena?

Okay, I'm working on an arena. I don't want it to be your average lame bash/holy shield/mirror image cheapness. I want it to be enjoyable. What do you people, the esteemed forumers of WC3C, think makes an arena fun, encourage teamwork, and good replay value? Also, just like to say that this site is overall awsome, I have been using the DL secton for a long time but just started posting.

Balance above all. Secound, somethin to make it more interesting, eg mini games, something that breaks up[ the usual tedium. You could have minigames as thing like team or ffa events, with events like CTF, king of the hill, maze run, or just team vs team or player vs player combat with some form of twist. Great, original heroes also help.

Hey I might have an hard but great idea for you...
I have not played warcraft since long and I don't really want to restart creating map, but I had an complex idea that would really be great if done; a kinda Mortal Kombat fighting game!

Ok first, it needs some animators but the rest is kinda easy(I was able to make a good part of a beta version)

So how it would work: two fighter(player) with there unit that fight together. You would have to make the world become 2d(by changing the camera angle and such) and with the right and left arrow, you would be able to move your unit from right to left...(pretty simple to do)

Than with the two other arrow you would be able to make combo(i could explain you this better if you want). Example: you press up without realesing it, then right, then you would make a move. In truth it is a fairly simple idea that need lots of triggers and animation to be interesting.

If you want more detail tell me! lol
PhantasyDreamer

Sorry pal, just looking for some lite suggestions and what people have liked/disliked about arena's in the past, if you want to pimp your map please make a new thread.

He was actually just trying to give you a friendly suggestion...



... Not 'pimp' his map.

If I came off as harsh, I didn't mean to, I'm a nice guy :( . I just want feedback on arenas, not an entirley new game type.

Anywho, anyone else have some feedback?

That is the kind of maps I want to see! :D
Totally alternative things, doing stuff that the Wc3(x)-engine was never meant to do :P

But regarding Arenas, diversity and minigames are important, also other types of items.
(Not the regular tome of <attribute> +<number> and claws of attack +<number>, but something entirely different, preferrably not something ripped from Melee)