I had a similar experience when I first started using a REO. I wasn't a huge fan of the shape (it is still growing on me). It wasn't hitting hard at all. And I just wasn't super impressed. Then the guy I was borrowing it from gave me some noalox and told me how to clean it. It helped a lot. But I still wasn't completely impressed. One day at work, I was using my other mech with a 1.25ohm carto tank and it was flooding like crazy. It was just pissing me off. I put it in my bag, pulled out the REO with a boge on it and it worked well enough and made me super happy. So then I just decided to buy a RM2. I figured, worse case scenario, I could sell it on the classifieds if I didn't like it still. Wrapped my first coil one it a few weeks ago and I couldn't be happier. And on Tuesday, I got my very own REO, which hits even better than my buddy's that I was borrowing.