Garden Of Thorn Gregor WAW : Res the EGO

[David Bowie Sensei]

So the kit for GoT EGO for Gregor just dropped and boy is it a weird one. As its a WAW EGO is should be quite strong and this will be a strong EGO. So long as you have Res going.
The theme of the EGO is Res, mimicking to a degree its Abno caring about sinners sins.

Attack Weight
Both sides gain Attack weight based on Res, while also having a Max amount. This is most likely 7 judging from the video so. So its base is most likely greater than 1 due to it being Res- X. Considering that a full Res with a team of 6 would only grant a total of 6.
So moving onto the effects, first with awakening.

Awakening
So this is quite a neat one. Your Res grants Power up and Damage up based on highest Sin Res to up to X Res of allies.
What this means is that say I have 5 wrath skills in my skill slots. On use of this EGO it will grant a Damage up for Wrath and power up for Wrath to 5 allies. So as this is a Lust EGO if you did Lust instead it would grant this EGO attack the extra damage too.
Now its keen to note that having a bigger Res [Not A-Res] grants more damage up and power up. With then an A-Res care to grant the same buffs next turn.
Next his after attack grants healing to some of his low health allies for % health. While a highest Res clause grants more allies to be healed.
Most EGO are known for being strong due to grant healing effects or SP heals to allies. While this doesn't do SP. Mass heals are still sought after in harder Focused fights to stave off losing a sinner as losing one can spiral into loosing more.

Corrosion
This one on the other hand unlike its awaken side, seems a tad weaker at first glance.
While inflicting a straight Damage Down and Bind next turn. The attack inflicting Fragile and Power Down based on the sin of the highest Res is straight odd. Not often are you going to be keen on using a Sin that enemies tends to unless outside of non Focus encounters. So only really Fragile will work out.
Meanwhile it does the same as the awakening does, inflicting more based on Res and on A-Res, next turn.
But the issue comes to awakening happens straight away and can effect Gregor before he deals damage, meanwhile this attack needs to hit to then grant the debuffs.
Hopefully numbers will make up for this lack of care.

Still speed for both Awakening and Corrosion, as the effects unless A-Res only apply that turn.So you will want your Gregor ID going first using this EGO.
Thankfully Gregor normally has a good 3-7 range on average, with his Zwei having the best at 4-8, factoring in a good way of tanking and team buffing, he should work well unless the Sin cost of this EGO makes things iffy.

Passive- Crown of Thorns
So this passive is the EGO Gift 'Crown of Rose' pushing out random Rupture Potency, while this passive only needs A-Res of any kind to give all enemies units Rupture Potency. Thankfully Gregor does have ID that care about Rupture, but Potency inflicts can be rather lackluster without a big focus with it. Most likely a Gluttony Res.

Final Thoughts
I don't often do a review of EGO, but considering this is the first "Gacha" WAW, I felt it makes sense to give my two cents.
While both sides seem strong. The awakened side seems far greater than the corrosion side. Offering healing and buffs to teams that want a focus on Resonance rather than strictly effects. Its SIn cost will factor heavily how well teams can make the most of this EGO and while Gregor Ids can fit any group needed. The fact that his EGO is Lust means you will rather want to use this EGO in such a team rather than say Pride, to make the most of its effects.
Meanwhile the passive will most likely be their only for extra damage, but could fit him in a Less Lustly group and play on other Res to gain the most from it.

[Bartek]

crossdressing

[Iggy the Unwise]

Hey another source of damage down, cool.

[Iggy the Unwise]

But overall this EGO feels like a more balanced Sunshower (ironic since the last one started as HE), at full power I bet it will have same weight.

[Demonking]

Tbh, looking over the ego I think the passive feels so out of place only because they didn't want to give him just another rupture ego. The way this is set up, you can use this ego on any team for a number of reasons. Debuffing an entire enemy stack both this and next turn. Buffing a strong resonance this turn, the fact you basically only need 3 of the resonance to line up to have it apply both this and next turn is great and means it doesn't get in the way of its own effects.

Alternatively, on a rupture team you can use the passive to spread rupture like a mad man or just use it for additional damage. A part of me almost wishes it was spread rupture count since that's the hardest part of using rupture but honestly this is fine and more universal.

It doesn't have any truly broken effects but what it does have is 2 really strong effects and one potentially good effect when mixed with his teth ego passive.

[Iggy the Unwise]

Originally posted by Demonking:

The way this is set up, you can use this ego on any team for a number of reasons. Debuffing an entire enemy stack both this and next turn. Buffing a strong resonance this turn, the fact you basically only need 3 of the resonance to line up to have it apply both this and next turn is great and means it doesn't get in the way of its own effects.

Not really, I would wager that the max effect will be 6 absolute resonance. This means the focused fights are only for lust compositions if you want full effect (but then again, I might be totally wrong and the abs resonance will require like 4.).

[Demonking]

Originally posted by Iggy the Unwise:

Originally posted by Demonking:

The way this is set up, you can use this ego on any team for a number of reasons. Debuffing an entire enemy stack both this and next turn. Buffing a strong resonance this turn, the fact you basically only need 3 of the resonance to line up to have it apply both this and next turn is great and means it doesn't get in the way of its own effects.

Not really, I would wager that the max effect will be 6 absolute resonance. This means the focused fights are only for lust compositions if you want full effect (but then again, I might be totally wrong and the abs resonance will require like 4.).

Well, I'd hope otherwise, what this EGO seems to do is to allow for any team to have an a resonance based combo and not just those with figures like captain ishmael. If it is an absolute resonance of 3 or 4 that'd be fine, but it's likely something like 6 might be an uptie 3 version of the ego. Not that I don't intend to tier 4 it as soon as possible like I do other WaW.

[Birp]

I'm guessing the resonance thresholds will be 3, 4, and 6.

I also feel like this is likely designed for a future gregor id, kinda like how Dimension Shredder was designed for W Sang which came almost a full season later.

[Iggy the Unwise]

Originally posted by Demonking:

Not that I don't intend to tier 4 it as soon as possible like I do other WaW.

I envy your thread reserves.

[Demonking]

Originally posted by Iggy the Unwise:

Originally posted by Demonking:

Not that I don't intend to tier 4 it as soon as possible like I do other WaW.

I envy your thread reserves.

I just skip the thread grind 3 times a day, giving me 36 threads. 252 threads a week, or 500+ over 2 weeks. I also get kind of lucky with pulls, which I usually do 1 10 pull a banner, which often at the minimum gets me the 2 star of the banner. So I have plenty of boxes to shard for either more threads and uptying. To pay for it by making sure I catch all 24 energy things you can get a day, and refill once for an extra 7.

[Ekimmak]

If it's a 6 Abs Resonance, then unfortunately it means the current team builds can't reach the full effects in focused encounters, because you can't reach "six plus this EGO" for anything but Lust, and not much needs absolute lust resonance.
It's a shame Gregor doesn't have a focused sloth identity at the moment, because it would be hilarious to see this alongside Sunshower on a high sloth resonance turn. Or maybe Corroded Blind Obsession on his Pirate EGO.
It's really going to boil down to the cost in the end. Watch it be "Some of everything".

[Reptiloid]

I am a simple man. I see AOE heal - I take.

[Snecchi]

Aw I was hoping this would be a "wildcard" ego that adds +1 to the highest resonance, lust is definitely an odd choice for now but who knows, maybe Heath chapter will have a heavy focus on Lust ARes (Limbus has recently been returning to its candy crush origins with Envy and Pride Res)

[gigastar]

idk, i feel it should have an effect that changes the skills sin affinity to match highest res

[Ekimmak]

Originally posted by Snecchi:

Aw I was hoping this would be a "wildcard" ego that adds +1 to the highest resonance, lust is definitely an odd choice for now but who knows, maybe Heath chapter will have a heavy focus on Lust ARes (Limbus has recently been returning to its candy crush origins with Envy and Pride Res)

After the brutalising Lust got in RR3, it desperately needs something nice to happen to it.

[Reptiloid]

So, fellas, anyone tried that out? Is it worth dumping in some crates?

Edit. Okay, jesus gregor gets a pass.