Heavens Tears TW Overview: Triad vs Enrage

Just like I promised.

I'm going to go ahead and write it straight on this forum cus I'm too lazy to open another window. You know how it is.

Anyways before I describe the match, a few forewords; disclaimers, if you will. This analysis only represents my own views and my perspective during the TW. Since I cannot be on every single team nor judge the individual performance of any player, it is extremely difficult to pinpoint the finer specifics in this vast epic battle. Most quantified factoids in this small overview is roughly estimated. However I'm going to do my very best to deliver the most insightful and detailed overview for you. Not you... the other guy.

11:12pm. Match begins. Hisui is on the catapult team this time. I thought it was going to be a rather new experience but it turned out it was quite a disadvantage to me and my team. Reason? Lag. I am not sure about the performance of other players PC, but the entire match I was playing at roughly... 3fps. So yea that means many times I felt I was one-shotted but realistically I was dealt damage by several different players. My computer's performance was never stellar but this time on the catapult team, I had nobody else to grab some assists from. It was difficult but I did my best.

First five minutes was rather smooth for my team. We went over and the A side gate towers rather quickly, but was also pushed back by Triad's strong venomancers. The first thing I noticed about these Triad venomancers are that their pheonixs could not be damaged (edit: upon consultation with my guild, it could have been my lag?). More like, the attack would not register as if the nix was hiding in its own safe zone. This little trick deserves to be looked into as it gave these extremely strong venos another overwhelming advantage. After being pushed back, my team attacked B.

The B road fight was pretty chaotic. I am sure half the people were lagging up the wazoo and I just basically repeated 1) go in 2) charm tick 3) die about 20x. The Triad venomancers again showed that phoenix dominated pvp as they freely killed by the dozens while they kited. Their extremely well refined armor made them invulnerable to the weaker Enrage's nix ganks. Somehow, sheer firepower (no thanks to Hisui) pushed Triad back and back and to the outside of the Triad gate.

After concentrating for awhile on the B road, we were assigned to fight on C. Much like A road it was rather smooth and we were able to down the towers (albeit being pushed back by guess-what-class a few times).

Overall, all 6 of the Triad outside gate towers were down by the 90 min mark. It was the latter 90 min that made Enrage's life extremely hard. It felt like the successful TE defense against RoC I played in months ago. Even though TE was pushed back all the way inside the base, TE easily guarded the crystal with AOEs and zerging the front door. The Enrage catapult pushes were easily taken down, as Enrage main force never had a firm footing inside Triad's base.

So while I can say Enrage outgunned Triad in this TW and kept Triad fighting in its base, it was probably not close to victory and Enrage will not be able to topple Triad with pure luck. I believe the Triad crystal was at the minimum 80%, even though that time it was due to the pure strengths of our clerics and tanks and not the overall pushing effort of the guild. Triad never made an organized pushed towards Enrage base, as it doesn't need to.

Overall, I think Triad venos really shined in this match. They brought a lot of 2 chi pots and aoe stunned many. I used up a total of 200k HP charm and I can say 90% of my deaths came from the same 4-5 venos. Despite my huge lag, I did use everything in my arsenal including 40+ perfect HP potions, 30+ dew apoths, and many blood clots (which is pretty hard to execute in TW tbh).

This has been a learning experience for many new members in Enrage and I believe chemistry will form in our new TW teams. I hope we were able to offer Triad a similar experience and I look forward to the next time we meet.

In the meantime. GMs. Please fix the genie lags so I can play TWs normally again. TYVM.