Hello,

I am a student who's addicted to wow :P and I play a draenei elemental shaman since TBC was launched For school I had to make some C# program and I've chosen to make a dps calculator for the class I play. Because the calculator might be usefull for others, I decided to share it with you.


When you open the file included, you will see a window with 6 tabs, I will explain shortly what you cna find on each:

Character:
On this tab you fill in stuff about your character, what are your unbuffed stats, which glyphs do you use and some gear related options. Also on this tab you set the fight length and the delay of your spells. Further there is an option to go the admin panel but there is nothing there really (only an option to set the # of samples)

Talents:
No need to comment I think. I tried to make it look fancy but havent finished it yet (only important talents shown). I will keep it like this till I finished all other things on my todo list (unless there are changes due to patch or major bugs with it)

(De)Buffs:
Here you can select which buffs you have and what debuffs are active on the boss. There is a little bug with MotW (explained later)

Spell Info:
This 1 is split into 2 tabs, the first tab is named "Stats", here are your buffed stats (including 'buffs' from 'debuffs')
The 2nd tab is more fancy as it shows information about your spells. You can 'compare' 2 spells with eachother. The listed information here is: min/max/avg damage (both hit & crit), CastTime , CastTime with heroism, Cooldown, Mana Cost. On top middle is an option to set clearcasting active.

Rotations:
On this tab you can select which spells you use in your rotation. You can also enable/disable using Heroism + Elemental Mastery.

Results:
Currently due to a complete rewrite there is no DEP values yet, you can calculate them yourself by using this 'formula': (<crit/haste/power DPS> - <base DPS>)/200
In the textfield is information shown, not all is important but I am using this field for debugging. This tab will be revamped in a later version.



On the upper right you see a button with the name "Calculate" , press it and the program will start calculating.


How does the calculation work:
Firstly it will generate a dynamic list of random numbers between 0 and 100. The number of numbers in this list depends on Fight Length and number of Samples. This list is used to calculate the: Damage done, Crit/Hit, LO-proc.
Secondly it will calculate the DPS for each situation (base, crit, haste, power). Due to the list with random numbers it will give a good estimate of DEP values.

Notes / known bugs:
- When deselecting "Mark of the Wild", it does not automatically deselect the improved variant.

- FS DD = (base_dmg + 0.214 * SpellPower) * (1 + Concussion + BoomingEchoes) * damagemodifier
- DPS is not affected by mana (will include it later)
- Heroism cooldown = 10minutes (patch 3.1)
- Glyph Totem of Wrath = 84 SP

- Samples used to calculate DPS: 50
- Calculation time (3min fight) = ~30 seconds

download link
Shaman DPS Calculator
Shaman DPS Calculator [Source]

Might wanna consider adding an option for other totems (Skycall, Ancestral Guardian). Speed potion as an option would be nice as well. A "non-draeni" option for us Horde folk. Being able to manually alter fight length rather than the slider (but that's just being nitpicky).

Very cool tool tho. Thanks for uploading it ^_^

First thing on my todo list is potion modelling, with the option to use the potion during heroism or not.
Draenei Aura is easy plugged in, but as I aint modelling anything with hit (only the number in "Combat Stats - General" tab) it aint that important, yet.

Fight Length, in future it will be able to set it to a random value (between 0 and 10mins)

Relics are on my todo list, but will be modelled at a later stage

Few notes based purely on what you've posted here.

1. Specifying number of targets hit with CL seems redundant, given the fact that dps tends to be analysed as "single target" damage
2. Using random numbers (and the same random numbers) is nice, but you will probably want more than 50 samples for each "situation", otherwise you will start to see variance from test to test. This is why EnhSim uses large timeframes for calculations.
3. Based on the way Concussion works with SE&F (not that you appear to have included that), it's safe to assume that booming echoes is an additive modifier with Concussion, rather than another multiplicative modifier.

A general note: your use of the English language seems to be... not very good. "Hitrating does not afflict DPS" is a good/bad example (hint: the word you're looking for is "affect")

2) You're still using too small a data set to get a statistically significant result.

3) I was under the impression that it had been changed to affect the whole spell, not just the dot.

It looks like the Combat Data tab only shows you your min/max/avg damage based off your unbuffed state for lava burst and lightning bolt. It has me listed as a max lavaburst at 11.7k and a max lb of 8.9k with 2025 sp base, when if i had all the buffs/debuffs on the lists given they'd each be about 2-3k higher.

At the same time, the direct damage portion of flame shock is listed as maxing out 3.2k, which is about 300 higher then my max crit and 500 more then my average (as going by this weeks patchwerk). Booming Echoes is a 20% damage increase, though, so that makes it seem more inline with the buffs list.

I was wondering if you could release your source code? As I'm sure many others do, I feel insecure running .exe files I haven't compiled myself.
Thanks in advance.

Thank you very much.

Any way to include trinket procs? They are a significant boost to DPS

It is on my todo list, but I dont know if I can model them correctly tho as I do not have the values of the trinkets. The static bonuses are already listed on your character tab, so these dont have to be modeled
I was thinking to model these trinkets procs/use:

1. Damage boosting
   • Proc trinkets
     • Darkmoon Card: Death
     • Darkmoon Card: Illusion
     • Dying Curse
     • Embrace of the Spider
     • Extract of Necromatic Power
     • Flow of Knowledge
     • Forge Ember
     • Illustration of the Dragon Soul
     • Pendulum of Telluric Currents
     • Sundial of the Exiled
   • Use trinkets
     • Mark of the War Prisoner
     • Figurine - Twilight Serpent
2. Mana regen boosting procs/uses
   • Je'Tze's Bell
   • Soul of the Dead

The "Use" trinkets are easy to model, but for the proc based trinkets I either have to gather data (see below) or take an average bonus.
The data I need to gather per trinket is:
- Proc chance
- Internal cooldown (most (if not all) are 45secs)
- Shares cooldown with <other trinkets>
- If it has a damage effect, is this damage affected by SP and if so .. how?


Another thing with trinkets is that almost each patch adds new ones which needs to be added (Unless they all act the same and I can write a general function around it )

Made some nice progress yesterday evening and tweaked the last things this morning

New in version 1.02

• Hit being modeled
• Potions being modeled
• Relics being modeled
• using 75 Samples instead of 50
• Results tab now only shows the DPS for each situation, the DEP value and the time calculating
• Length of the list with random numbers is being calculated differently

Hit:
When you are under the hit cap the calculation will also calculate your Hit DEP .. no idea if I did it right statistic wise. While haste/power/crit DEP values are being calculated by using an increase of 200 of the stat, hit is being calculated a bit different.
base_dps = dps you would do with the hit you have
hit_dps = dps you would do being hit capped
hit DEP = (hit_dps - base_dps) / "rating you need to be hit capped"

Relics:
Currently modeled relics are:

• Skycall totem - 15% proc chance to gain 100 haste for 10 seconds (only procs of LB)
• Totem of the Elemental Plane - 15% proc chance to gain 196 haste for 10 seconds with an internal cooldown of 45 seconds. (procs only of LB)
• Totem of the Ancestral Guide - +LB/CL damage
• Totem of Hex- +LB/CL damage
• Venture Co. Lightning Rod - +LvB damage

Random numbers:
The length of this list is now calculated based on this formula:With default settings the list contains 1175 random numbers.
Perfectly I want a random number for each cast, but this will take ages to calculate as the generating of a random number is based on CPU time. Filling the list too fast means that random=/=random as the CPU time isnt updated yet. If some1 can help me with a work-around here to speed it up ..