Mage DPS Simulator pre-development feedback

[Dhamp]

Ok, so its about time someone did, so on Friday, at 6ish pm BST, I intend to start development of a Mage DPS simulator. Before that time, I'm hoping the community can comment on the plan and suggest improvements/added functionality for Version 1.

What it will be/do :
A macro-heavy excel workbook
Offer a rudimentary soul calculator to specify which points will be active
Be independant of Focus
Run on a 0.1s tick duration
Offer 4 levels of variation for latency/skill/movement - currently planned as 20, 10, 5 and 1%
Offer fight lengths of 5 and 10 minutes
Provide an average DPS and variance from that average over (initially) 10 iterations
Count a spel'ls entire damage at the moment of cast

What it will not do:
Tell you the best DPS spec
Include stat priorities.

What it may do/what I'm concerned about getting right/What I need:
Talent/Spell icons!
Provide a rotation output - depends on how easily I can format it
Allow for raid buff customisation
Buff expiry during spell casts
Buff changes during DoTs
Charge management - one of my biggest concerns is getting this right

[FireWraith]

It's a cool idea, but it's going to be really hard to nail down correctly, I think.

There's just too many variables in calculating DPS. The same reasons that cause 1 parse to be 200 DPS higher than another parse of the exact same build/rotation are the reasons it would be hard to make a spread sheet that does what you want.

[Dhamp]

It's a cool idea, but it's going to be really hard to nail down correctly, I think.

There's just too many variables in calculating DPS. The same reasons that cause 1 parse to be 200 DPS higher than another parse of the exact same build/rotation are the reasons it would be hard to make a spread sheet that does what you want.

That's why I'm planning on having it run several iterations and correctly calculating the experimental uncertainty.

[Pendu]

Awesome, I need to go to bed, but I'll surely have some time to check out if I can do anything to help later on

Cheers