Mr. Excel
I know I haven't been active on forums and stuff for a couple months, but that's for good reason. I've been pretty busy with school/life, and working on the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet, by the way, is coming along beautifully. I am introducing a handful of new analysis tools which will help you understand the differences and nuances. I hope to have a working releasable version before the Firelands raiding tier. Again, sorry for the wait.

First, is the fight parameter module which will alow you to specify for a given fight duration, when Death Wish, trinkets, out-of turn Colossus Smash, and other choice-oriented gains and procs are activated to better estimate DPS and DPS parameters given specific buff stacking. The spreadsheet will take the given timestamps and slice it into intervals creating a partition with varying AP, crit chance, IAS, damage modifier, and armor penetration. Each interval is then assigned ability amounts and DPS is tallied. Execute will also be considered into this system. You can also view the expected damage of any ability in any interval given your parameters. This system is fairly large and and I expect it to fill about 200 rows (columns are copies of other columns) of data and calculations. I'm hoping it all works out the way I want it to, we'll have to see.

The second cool new feature of the spreadsheet, is the Ability calculator. You can enter -any- parameter to be up or down, choose an ability, and its damage value / DWounds input will be shown. This is more or less a 'What If' tool and is a direct result of me setting up the functions in a much more accessible and dynamic way.

Third, is a section for viewing ability weights. For exmaple, you will easily be able to see the difference between trading Colossus Smash and Slam in alternate GCD positions. Or, how much a Bloodthirst does on average or in maximum. Looking at these may hopefully allow users to understand nuances in rotation and help in making better decisions when those moments of non 100% certainty come up.

Also, I have included a handful of buff and debuff sets to easily switch between orientations, such as fighting a target dummy to full raid synergy. You can choose between comparing a homogenous DPS calculation (much like the WotLK spreadsheet) or using your custom parameters mentioned earlier. The homogeneous DPS system now works off a given inputted fight length, which will automatically use the correct amount of partial and full death wishes and trinkets etc. The custom system will be more powerful however, and I will try to make both of the systems useful in different situations.

Setting up these systems and getting them working in Excel has been quite the adventure for me, and it has been taking a lot of work, experimenting, and learning. My first release will a BETA version, and will be missing B.net armory import (since the new XML isn't out) and missing Arms DPS. Those will come as soon as possible and I am able. I'm speculating Arms to be a very viable single target route for DPS Warriors in future patches, that is if they don't get nerfed for PvP reasons... After the spreadsheet gets some face and I can do rotational research with it, I'll begin to start putting together material for my coaching service so I can start that back up again! I love to teach, and I can't wait until I have some free time to do it!

Raiding
The first tier of Cataclysm Heroic Raiding has been good to me so far. I've set a handful of #1 Fury parses on Heroic bosses and still own a few on this date. If you've checked http://www.worldoflogs.com lately, you've seen them. Special thanks to <vodka> as always for killing internet dragons efficiently!

I've also setup a livestream and may be streaming raids in the not too distant future. I'm not too sure how streaming will affect my CPU performance in a raid and don't know yet what the best streaming settings are that won't get me killed so we'll see where that goes. If you let me know if you want to watch my stream personally, it will give me more motivation.

Until Next time.

Can I please have the URL of your livestream?

Thanks