On paper and in the top logs Champion’s Spear seems to out perform Thunderous Roar on the two single target fights in the raid. However, in my own experience Thunderous Roar seems to be performing much better and I’m not sure why.
Every time I use spear it seems to fall quite flat. I’m ensuring that I’m not using it during any movement to ensure maximum uptime. However when I use Thunderous Roar w/ Bloodborne it seems to perform far better.
Your talents look good (assuming loadout 5 is your single target build). How are you sending your CD’s when you’re using spear?
I have it in a macro with reck, avatar and my trinket. Perhaps that is the issue?
I was always under the impression as long as the damage dealing ability was the last line in the macro it would be the last item to execute and thus benefit from damage buffs listed higher in the macro.
Edit:
I changed it around so that my initial macro casts Reck, Avatar and uses my trinket and a slight bit later in the rotation after dumping rage I cast Thunderous Roar/Champion’s Spear while everything is still up.
Champion’s spear will only typically do 1.4 to 1.7 million damage and I’ll burst inside of that window for around 900k to 1.1m DPS.
Where as with my Thunderous Roar setup it does between 2.5 and 3m damage, and overall during the burst window I’m doing 1.3 to 1.5m DPS.