I'm more concerned about her active being crap. Her leaderskill is wonky, but at least it's a buff.
Spread Cats was already almost completely useless now that everyone does damage either through rows or TPA. It severely limited Bastet's use as a sub. And now they're making it so it only lasts one turn in exchange for more of a shitty damage buff?
Like, this is the only awoken monster whose active is literally worse than it was previously.
Eh, I'm kinda ok with the awakenings and AS. They could've been better, and I welcome more buffs, but at least it isn't like that LS.
THE LS.
Ok. First of all, connecting 5+ hearts is just completely against what a combo god should be.
You'd also notice that her LS is very similar to Parvati. 5 combo for x3 vs unconditional 2.5x atk 1.5x rcv. Yeah...
Requiring hearts limit Bastet's burst options by a lot, even more than Parvati because she doesn't make hearts herself, so Liu Bei? nope.
I can see why they're making her this though. Legend dungeon pictures have been put into the data in the update ongoing right now, and you would remember there are heart related awakenings and they all require more than 4 hearts. Especially that +-shaped heart shield thing which requires
5 linked hearts. But, I'm not sure about this... this whole heart thing really conflicts with combo gods but I don't know how they can improve it if we assume this is the case.
Edit: One change I'd like to see would probably be increasing the "base side", like going up to 7c 16x like G/L (if that's too good, lower everything to Kushi level like 5c 6.25x, 6c 9x, 7c 12.25x, 8x 16x?)
Then have a lower heart-boost (5 heart for extra 1.5x only? or even less)
The idea is, if you make connected hearts, your combo count is gonna be lower. If their idea is to not let egyptians get left out when these heart-related awakenings become good, let them play like usual, but retain their damage when they go for the +-shaped heart. It is unlikely people are make stuff like 6colours+5connected heart or 8c+5connected heart, etc short of skyfalls anyways.
Of course this is coming from a person who loves using bastet and is super biased.