I'm a bit confused at the moment. I've been carefully gearing up (within my means; I can't craft/afford much of the crafted 220 Aiming gear though I have 3 pieces currently, and I opted to invest in the right side Lore gear for the sake of MCH and NIN first. No Seph wep, using 210 Eso/Thordan wep still, slow and selective with melds)

While my rotation doesn't 100% match the "established" one, it's fundamentally the same as what's been agreed upon as the most effective. However recently, after gearing up a bit more, I seem to not be able to hit the same Wildfire numbers as I had before. I went from between 8-10K+ WFs to 7-9K (no food, still hitting 10, but much less suddenly). The most recent changes were swapping out the 210 Machinist Brais for the Proto-Midan Aiming pants, and swapping the Proto-Midan ring for Eikon. Technically all stat increases, yet my damage remains at its best, right where it was, if not lower. What's so different?