Last night I finally got a clear for p2s and the team uploaded a parse and I find myself to be in the lower 4 percentile. I'm doing 6k damage, 1k+ less than an average rdm but I can't figure out why.

I tried to compare my data with another red mage in the 50 percentile and my attacks are doing 1-4k dmg less in general. When looking at specific spell, Verthunder III makes up ~12% of both of our total damage. We both casted that 38 times but mine does 1k less per cast. My crit and DH are at 20% while the other guy's are at 30% and 45% respectively. And I think that contributes to the 1k difference?

I don't know what makes my damage so low compared to the average. My ilvl is 584 and I have fully melding (regular meld only) all gear with crit then DH then det. I had my food buff during the fight. What else could have caused my crit and DH rate to be 10-25% lower? I understand that my rotation is still not that good and I can better manage my uptime and better time my embolden window. I expect that to get me maybe to 5% less damage than average? But I can't quite figure out what got me to 17% less damage.

I have tried to read up from guides and youtube videos and I am not doing anything very different from the regular rotations out there. I've been scratching my head for quite a some time now. Thanks in advance for giving me advice so I can improve and not be a burden.