Rhaefe's Simple Ranger Melee DPS Tool

Constants

These are the values that should be the same everytime you run the tool.
When comparing templates make sure these are set to the same values
Weapon DPS     what is the effectice DPS of your weapon?
Bow DPS     what is the effectice DPS of your bow?
Pre-buff Quickness        What is your Quickness (WITHOUT buffs and WITH gear, race, and level increases)
Value of Quickness   What value to use for Bonus Quickness damage
Select None to disable quickness bonus
Select 4 points to use old values
Select 5 to use new values (recommended value)


Style Bonus   What value to use for Bonus Style damage
Select None to disable Bonus Style damage
Select 5% - 100% To account for Extra damage because of styles (only applied to Main hand)
Select 25% if unsure and plan to use styles

Celtic Dual Formula    which formula to use to calculate Celtic Dual effectiveness
Select Kaber formula to Use 25% + CD * 0.75 (found by testing)
Select Mythic to use 25% + level/4 + CD/2 (Mythic posted)
if unsure select Kaber.

Realm Rank Bonus   What is your Realm Rank bonus to Skills?
Item Skill Bonus   What item bonus applies to all skills

Specs

These are the values that really define your template. It is here that you should do most of your tweaking
Level   what level of character
Stealth Spec   what is your spec in Stealth?
  Detection Radius During Camo
  By Non - Detect Hidden with Level = your level 
  By Detect Hidden with Stealth = your level 

Bow Spec   what is your spec in Bow?
Min%    Max%   

Weapon Spec   what is your spec in Blades or Pierce?
Min%    Max%   

Celtic Dual     what is your Celtic Dual spec?  
Swings per round  
if your Swings per round = 1.48 you have a 48% chance to swing your second weapon.

Pathfinding     what is your spec in pathfinding?
Damage Add    Dex/Quickness buff   
damage add and dex/quick buffs are from pathfinding only

Results

Here are the results of all your hard work
Melee  Effective DPS     Effective Style DPS   
Bow  Effective DPS   
Spec Points  Points Gained     Points Spent     Points Left   
 
   
Effective Melee DPS =Weapon DPS * Average Damge * Swings per round * Quickness Speed Reduction + Damage Add * Swings per round
Effective Melee Style DPS = Effective Melee DPS + (Weapon DPS * Average Damge * Style Bonus)
Effective Bow DPS =Bow DPS * Average Damge * Quickness Speed Reduction + Damage Add
Average Damge = (Min % + Max%) / 2
Average Number of Swings = Level/4 + Celtic Dual/2 + 25% + 100%(main hand) (Guessed from Grab bag posts)
Average Number of Swings = 25% + Celtic Dual * 0.75 (As Found By Kaber and Niin)
Quickness Speed Reduction = 100% + (Total Quickness - 60) * 0.0025 ( 4 points Quickness = 1% faster swing = 1% non styled Bonus damage Pre Archer Speed nerf)
Quickness Speed Reduction = 100% + (Total Quickness - 60) * 0.0020 ( 5 points Quickness = 1% faster swing = 1% non styled Bonus damage Post Archer Speed nerf)
Damage Add = Pathfinding Damage Add (Quickness bonus does not apply to damage add)



Tool by Ashlinis, please direct all questions and comments to him