Before patch laser build was best hands down no contest.
After this patch nerfed laser build to the ground Globe build is now best build hands down no contest.
- Gluttony
- Hellforged Armor
- Master of Destruction
- Tide of Sin
- Brutish Vanguard
- Total Annihilation
- Pride
My average 400 annihilation timing is 14minutes. You heard that right. 14minutes into the game I hit 400 annihilation. If you’re not hitting this then you need to get better. Laser build gets 400 annihilation by 22minutes so Globe build is that much better.
The fastest way to get annihilation is to not die. As in to stay alive. Which means play like a coward and don’t try to get kills. Throw your demon out. Throw your globe out. Do NOT laser. I repeat, do NOT laser. Pretend that skill doesn’t exist. The only time you should laser is if your team is kicking ***. Like either an enemy dived into all 5 of you. Or your team got the entire other team stunned. But if the fight is even-stevens aka neutral, do NOT laser. Never laser. Don’t even think laser exists. If you laser when your opponent’s team is able you are ****ed. I’m not kidding. If you laser you want to keep the laser on him so you move in and them BAM. You die because you’re slow, you’re fat, and you got no escape. DONT LASER.
Azmodan has no escape nor sustain nor single target damage. So in a 1v1 situation you will always die. Always. Against a guy who can kite you, you will always die. So I repeat. DO NOT LASER. Throw globe. Send your demon out. And stay the hell back. This is how you generate the most annihilation. I’m not kidding when I say each death costs you 50 annihilation. So you died 5 times? That’s 250 annihilation you wasted by being dead. No wonder you hit 400 annihilation at 22minutes. Using laser will get you killed 100% of the time so DONT LASER.
Another thing. DO NOT CROSS THE MID LINE. Don’t push unless the entire other team is dead. Don’t try to steal camps. Never cross the mid line. Hell don’t even try to push with an objective or boss on your side. You cross the mid line then you’re dead because you’re fat, you’re slow, and you’re weak. Even 1 hero will solo kill you.
Oh and DONT GET CAMPS. Every second you waste killing a camp is less annihilation. So unless a teammate is pinging like crazy for you to help with a camp, DONT GET CAMPS. At least, before 400 annihilation. Once you hit 400 then capture all the camps you want.
So how do you generate annihilation?
- By hitting heroes every 10 seconds with globe. 14minutes that’s 84 globes, 4 annihilation each that’s 336 annihilation just from throwing a globe and hitting 1 hero for 14minutes.
- Throw a globe onto a wave and then laser the mage. he will blow up and kill the entire wave giving you 14 annihilation every 30 seconds. Notice that I said globe FIRST laser 2nd. Throw globe first. If your globe is too strong and kills the mage creep then laser the ranged creep.
14 every 30 seconds, 4 every 10 seconds for a total of 22annihilation every 30 seconds. 22 x 28 = 616 annihilation by 14minutes. Yeah, you have no excuse not hitting 400 annihilation by 14minutes. I know i know, you don’t get 14 annihilation until you hit level 7 which is god knows when and depends on entire game. Still, you have no excuse.
Playstyle. How to play Azmodan? Simply put, **** your team. You are playing world of warcraft, not a moba. I’m serious. **** your team and do your own thing which is mass annihilation. Join team fights NOT to win objective, but to get annihlation. If you lose your objective so be it. Don’t give a ****. I mean it. Don’t give a flying **** that your entire team died and you lost the objective. Your goal is to not die and get annihilation. So throw globes to get annihilation and run the **** away. If enough of your teammates die just ditch. Don’t commit.
Before master of destruction just go to where there are lots of enemy heroes and just throw globes at them. If it’s a large map then just throw a globe onto one hero every 10 seconds. After master of destruction do the opposite. Stop fighting altogether and go for empty lanes you can land your combo to get 14 annihilation. Still go to objectives because 8 annihilation every 10 seconds is better than 14 annihilaiton every 30 seconds. But once again, never laser, dont die, and give up objective. Don’t be a hero. **** objectives.
Once you get tide of sin, now its 14 + 14 + 4 = 32 annihlation every 30seconds. Magic number is 180. If you have 180 annihilation, Tide of Sin globe will wipe out an entire creep wave in a single shot. So Globe + master of destruction your current lane for 14 annihilation, then Tide of Sin Globe an adjacent lane for another 14 annihilation. You truly have no excuse not hitting 400 annihilation by 14minutes.
Once you hit pride, your Globe WITHOUT tide of sin will wipe an entire wave out in a single shot. In addition you get a cd reduc of 2+ seconds. I’m not kidding when I say you can push all 3 lanes with this. Throw a globe bot, immediately move to mid. Throw a globe mid, immediately move to top. Throw a globe top. And repeat until you win. If you can’t win with 0 deaths and pushing all 3 lanes, your team is trash and its not your fault.
If you think you’re not doing enough damage in a team fight, DONT LASER. Your team is just trash. If you actually crunch the numbers, your globe alone should be doing more damage than Jaina (without icy veins) so if your not doing any damage because of the other team’s sustain, your team is trash and there’s nothing you can do. DONT LASER. Instead ditch and go split push. There’s no reason to team fight if you know you can’t win.
Some might think Gluttony conflicts with Tide of Sin because Tide of Sin’s cd isn’t reduced but you’re wrong. It’s not uncommon to get like 3 seconds of cd reduc per shot which means your globe is gonna be off cd within like 2-3 seconds of Tide of Sin coming off cd.
Don’t expect your demon to do anything. You need hell rift to get them in sufficient numbers and you can’t use hell rift without sin’s grasp and greed which you don’t have. But the other demon talents are worse so you go brutish vanguard and hellforged armor. I mean, one talent requires you to AUTOATTACK. Yeah, if laser is unacceptable, auto attacks are 100 times more unacceptable. So this goes without saying. DONT AUTOATTACK.
Don’t get Demonic Invasion. It requires you to cross the mid line. It also kills your annihilation generation by not getting Tide of Sin. Demonic Invasion does less damage than 25% of a fort or tower, huge cd, requires you to get within gank range. Just no, don’t get it. Its trash.
And I think that just about covers everything. If you have any questions feel free to post below.