Final Thoughts

[Barraind]

I remember when we had to grep or parse hundreds of hours of log files to get our damage numbers and figure out where we could be doing better.

"Is my damage okay? Its the single most important thing I add to a raid encounter"

'I dont know, give me a day or two to run this log file through my parser'.

Those were the worst times.

Parsers in MMO's are on the short list of things you absolutely need to have (as long as your MMO has meaningful combat, at least)