Need help with Red Mage

[Janova2047]

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.

[Aikaal]

Hey, I checked your log and pasted it on xivanalysis.com

Results

You have 4 issues. You're not using all your oGCDs. Your cast time is 2.41s, it should be 2.48 since you have no benefit in spell speed. Crit>Det>DH>Spell Speed for RDM. Lastly, you have an uptime of 88%. That's the biggest issue, you're losing a lot of time not casting. It seems you're losing a lot of melee combos from not doing your melee combo properly.

I hope you,re fine with me doing that because there's no way for me to give you these inputs unless I see the log :\

XIV analysis is an amazing tool to help you improve and see what are your mistakes.

[Janova2047]

Thank you so much for pointing me to xivanalysis. It's actually good to know that the problem lies with my rotation so I can improve on it. Didn't expect my uptime to be that low. I'll definitely work on it.

As for cast time, since I haven't melded any spell speed to my gear, I'll need to wait for another piece of gear with less spell speed that I can upgrade to to fix that, right? Or would it be better if I downgrade some gear to exchange spell speed for crit?