Would you like an in-game parser?

[Zeonsilt]

330 is pretty high for something that drops 320 gear, though.

Honestly, at this point most people can easily collect full 330 Creation gear.
I haven't played for 4 months(since mid-august,came back like a week ago) and my BRD/MCH is at ilvl 336 from that time.
TL;DR ilvl 330 is "low" for your "main" class.
Plus there Ivalice, one free ilvl330 + one 340 upgrade every week.

It's simply a less accurate way of doing that than being able to measure actual DPS is, so it winds up cutting off someone in 325 who has mastered their rotation but allows someone in 330 who hasn't. I'm having a hard time understanding why the anti-parser crowd considers that *better*.

This, actually, is not parser-related and exist because there's "no official parser".
People like to play it safe, so they put a high ilvl requirement, so that they'l get mostly people, who "main" that class. Because if you "main" X class, you should be far higher in ilvl, than 330, even if you just collect Creation gear + Ivalice + those upgrades to 340. (aka doing zero Savages)

p.s. I also got 4-5 340 upgrades items from Hunts. Forgot about those.