People who are already interested in running tests and extracting metrics from mechanics in World of Warcraft may already be familiar with “Simulation Craft”, for those that aren’t you may find it very interesting. The project is ongoing and completly community run so the results shouldn’t be read as gospel, it is however one of the best examples right now of producing data from metrics in WoW. Check it out at:
http://code.google.com/p/simulationcraft/
Here is a link to a sample output taken from a virtual raid, using Tier 9 and BiS items:
http://code.google.com/p/simulationcraft/wiki/SampleOutputT9
