This may differ for other people but
during my time with the game I was
changing gear around every 30 - minutes or so,
giving it a nice pace — not too much and not too little.
Ubisoft also added to counter getting instantly killed when going against more than one enemy is the revenge feature where if you continuously block more and more attacks or take so much damage you can activate revenge which hits enemies to the ground and
gives you a much better advantage over taking out more than one enemy but this only lasts for around 20 seconds, Feats are also play a part in combat mainly
during the 4v4 matches where you can buff team mates, heal yourself or
give yourself a damage boost and even make a catapult hurl a bomb and obliterate your enemies these can be
changed so you can have more specific roles just as the
gear can also specify certain things that your hero can do.