Parsers and Problems

[Malevicton]

I can't remember anyone in any game give two shits about the DPS of randoms as long as stuff gets done.

Pretty much this. People like to brainstorm all the hypothetical problems that parser might bring, and are strangely willing to completely ignore that it doesn't need to be hypothetical. Parsers have a long history in mmo's (and things similar to parsers in other games). We don't need to guess about what will happen, we can look to history. And historically, they've been fine. A few minor problems here and there, but parsing horror stories are exceptionally uncommon.