Alright time to break down Bastet in detail
So first her
base statsWood/Fire was expected. Not much to say except it gives Verdandi synergy which is nice
Devil/Balanced was also generally expected. No attacker means no GZL/Liu synergy but that's okay because her leader skill totally screws that up anyways lol
Her weighted total stats is 747.4 which is only 3 less than her other forms which is okay. Other awokens have lost more and furthermore this form has the most well rounded stats.
Awakenings oh boy. Bit of Lakshi syndrome here where she has both one row and one TPA. Nope no triple TPA here let alone double.
Still I guess you can't complain too much about gaining a skill boost, TPA, time+, and green+. Skill Boost gives you synergy with orb changers, Time+ lets you pull off her leader skill better, green+ for potential 100% +orbs with Verdandi + someone else, and TPA is still TPA.
It would have been better though if she kept her devil form awakenings and thus had double TPA rather than TPA + 1 row. That one row isn't going very far with Bastet but I guess it helps if you want to use her as a Perseus sub or something?
Active is wow boring. I thought they would try something interesting and give her some orb change but nope, literally just a tweaked active.
Ignoring the useless spread
legscats part which is even more useless thanks to it being only 1 turn now, her active is basically a 1.5x multiplier every 6 turns, which isn't that bad, but it's not amazing either when you consider there exist some 1.5x on 5 turns.
Still it's okay since it lets you hit x81 twice every 6 turns with dual Bastet leaders, and damage enhancing on leaders i good in general since it lets you focus all your subs on orb changing.
On the other hand her value as a sub still isn't that good. Well it's better than before I guess. She's sort of like GZL except weaker but has more utility by buffing all wood types and has two time+.
Leader skill is actually very close to what I guessed. I got the 3x atk for 5 combo right. The part I didn't get was the fact that instead of powering up on green orbs, they literally gave her Tiphon's leader ability added on top. Actually further more her awakenings are very similar as well. The difference is she has an extra time+, green+, and poison resist, which is ehh.
Also the slap in the face part is that the heart orbs MUST BE CONNECTED. This means you lose out on combos and have to get them elsewhere. At least it's only 5 combos though which is still not too hard, although doing it with a big ass block of hearts could prove to be very tricky.
Actually not really cause even Ronia needs 6 combos + rows so it's fine lol.
The lamest part though is how similar it is to parvati's. You basically just trade some RCV for more attack, but hey at least everyone like having more attack right? I dunno, I mean yeah it's strong but ehh.
Anyways most importantly is who to use her with.Interestingly enough, Awoken Parvati becomes one of her best subs. Melon dragon works too since it also changes water to heart and has great awakenings.
Verdandi is an obvious pick because she gives wood and heart orbs. Also with her you have 80% green+ skyfalls and combined with parvati that's 100%.
Perseus is another obvious high synergy pick. He gives skill lock resists so with him and the others you have 100% skill lock resist, 100% green +orbs, 2.5 seconds+, and 5 skill boosts. Also 60% poison resist and 3 rows lol.
Liu Bei seems like a bad idea at first, but people still pulled him off with Parvati simply by, using his active with Parvati's. He's still the best pronger around.
Astaroth give a lowish cooldown orb changer that has synergy with Verdandi to create a full green/heart board.
So yeah like Awoken Parvati/Lakshi she's plenty strong, but also she's a bit too much like then and it's kind of boring. Especially since the good subs for each overlap pretty hard. Meanwhile many of the subs that people might already be using for Bastet like Avalon Drake, Gonia, and Genbu all lose value.
Also they revealed Bastet without even showing Isis' art god dammit more waiting :colonveeplusalpha:
awoken lakshmi biznitch
Still no subatt :colonveeplusalpha:
