I was building my heizou and he was consistently dealing 30k+ each skill crit (which is a lot for me ok I'm not new I'm just bad)

Then randomly, my heizou started dealing less damage. I couldn't figure out why, I hadn't changed anything other than finally getting my xiangling a full emblem set, but that should increase damage, not reduce.

I was so confused.

Then it hit me.

The astral marks.

The fucking imaginariun theatre astral marks.

When I was building heizou that dam thing was there.

And now I want to cry.

Because I was so proud, I thought I had improved in building, and my theory of 4-star dps over 5 star dps was real, that I had actually gotten better.

No.

I'm still dealing the same shit damage I did before.

And I know this is a really fucking stupid thing to cry about (it's a fucking gacha game!) but I've been feeling so shit these few days I barely got out of bed for meals this week and this is just

Really fucking shitty

So shitty

Something I thought I actually achieved

But nope

It's just as much shit as it was before

I achieved nothing

And now I'm upset about something so fucking stupid as coloured pixels on a gambling game

All this to say