XT-002 Deconstructor hard mode is probably the single best sustained throughput test for melee DPS. So long as someone doesn't get shat all over by bomb RNG, you can get some pretty nice numbers out of it, particularly because the fight is so very very long.

Except that, at 90 seconds to 2 minutes, it falls into a lot of the same traps that Patchwerk does (very high heroism and cooldown uptime among other issues)

You can be assured that i took those details into consideration, and i did say i've seen it on almost all the fights i've done with the respective spec. And i didn't say the sheet is wrong, im just saying i do not get it, maybe i'm missing something.

I get the feeling I'm doing something wrong or misinterpreting something but I can't find out what so please bear with me.

I'm 15/51/5 CQC now and I wanted to see how the base scores for MH in the spread sheet would differ when I went sword and mace spec. I didn't touch anything else and just moved the 5 points around from CQC to sword and to mace in order to observe how the base score in the gear sheet would change. Here is what I got:

MH	CQC	Sword	Mace
Golden Saronite Dragon	1.527	1.518	1.518
Insanity's Grip	1.452	1.447	1.447
Furious Gladiator's Grasp	1.380	1.372	1.372
The Masticator	1.463	1.456	1.456
Calamity's Grasp	1.391	1.385	1.385
Furious Gladiator's Longblade	1.142	1.595	1.372
Serilas, Blood Blade of Invar One-Arm	1.196	1.652	1.428
Malice	1.181	1.636	1.413
Razorscale Talon	1.080	1.536	1.312
Vulmir, the Northern Tempest	1.209	1.441	1.708
Caress of Insanity	1.244	1.473	1.740
Furious Gladiator's Truncheon	1.142	1.372	1.639

Edit: Thanks to Tinwhisker I have updated the table. With CQC fist weapons have best score (duh). I swap the 5 points to sword spec and as expected swords become much better but here are two things: Fists only lost a couple points where as swords gained hundreds and also maces score much better with sword spec

Than I put the 5 points to mace spec and maces became the king (vulmir & caress are so much better than any other weapon [fist or sword with appropriate spec] btw). Fists didn't change at all, stayed where they were with sword spec. Swords got worse but they didn't go back to their values they had with fist spec but stayed in between instead.

Is this really a bug or am I missing something?

That depends on your guild's strat... it could be a terrible judge.

I'm assuming you mean if your guild puts melee on Life Sparks? If so, yeah, of course it's terrible.

What offhand were you using for the comparisons?

I don't know that I would consider Remorse that much better than Stonerender. Both are 1.5 speed with fairly comparable stats -- both have similar amounts of Agi, Haste, and AP. The sword has Expertise while the mace has Crit. Sword spec doesn't help while using Fan of Knives (to my knowledge), but maces do get their 15% armor penetration. Are you sure you don't mean Void Sabre or Rune-Etched Nightblade? Those are the swords that seem to break from the mold, because of the gem socket and faster attack speed, respectively.

I believe raid buffs such as that are hard coded into his sheet assuming you have them all at any given time. Someone can correct me if i am wrong but i believe that is still how he does it.

Check to make sure you have the most recent sheet. There is no updated Mutilate SS as far as I know (at least not from Aldriana), but the combat sheet allows you to turn on/off raid buffs in the settings tab.

My skills with Excel are severely limited and as simple as this sounds; its beyond me. Any chance you could post a version with the Blacksmithing options in place?