Rabbit's Reviews #241: Salome (2* Berserker)

Introduction

The last of the fancy new bronzes is Salome, who’s most notable for being only the second Berserker with an offensive Arts NP. She’s neither particularly bulky nor particularly good at NP spam, which makes her a bit of an odd duck as Arts servants go, but if nothing else she nearly matches the NP damage on an NP1 Vlad. She’s sort of an anti-Charlotte in that she wouldn’t be especially valuable in her own right, but her role is so unique that (until we get more Arts ‘Zerkers) she actually does have a surprising level of potential value… for now.

Servant Data

Berserker

QAABB (Saber)

Quick Card

Arts Card

Buster Card

4

3

4

3

Attribute	Earth
Alignment	Chaotic Evil

Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4

April Fool's

Max HP 6,885

HP Rank

Max ATK 6,884

ATK Rank

Base Atk	1,221	Base HP	1,296
Max Atk	6,884	Max HP	6,885
Grail Atk	9,975	Grail HP	9,936

Traits

Card Hits	4	3	3	4	3
Per Hit	0.51%	0.51%	0.51%	0.51%	0.51%

	NP per Hit (%)	0.51%
NP when Attacked (%)	5%

	Star Absorption	9
Star Generation per Hit	5.0%

Stage	Cost	Materials
2	15,000	x3 Berserker Piece
3	45,000	x6 Berserker Piece x11 Evil Bone
4	15,000	x3 Berserker Monument x3 Lamp of Evil-Sealing x5 Void's Dust
Max	45,000	x6 Berserker Monument x10 Void's Dust x3 Mysterious Divine Wine

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	20,000	x3 Gem of Berserker
2 → 3	40,000	x6 Gem of Berserker
3 → 4	120,000	x3 Magic Gem of Berserker
4 → 5	160,000	x6 Magic Gem of Berserker x2 Lamp of Evil-Sealing
5 → 6	400,000	x3 Secret Gem of Berserker x3 Lamp of Evil-Sealing
6 → 7	500,000	x6 Secret Gem of Berserker x8 Evil Bone
7 → 8	1,000,000	x15 Evil Bone x9 Mystic Spinal Fluid
8 → 9	1,200,000	x27 Mystic Spinal Fluid x12 Eternal Frost
9 → 10	2,000,000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Special ATK

Blood-Soaked Silver Platter B+

Apply Special Attack [Lawful Good] to self (3 turns).
Increase own ATK (3 turns).

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Special Atk Vs Lawful Good +	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%
Attack +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

Silver Platter is Salome’s only steroid. As a 20% 3-turn attack buff at base, this does just enough to leave her NP damage just below Vlad’s (which is probably intentional), and the good uptime means she’s capable of consistently strong NPs so long as supports help to boost her NP gain. This skill also grants power mod versus Lawful Good servants, which is a little under a quarter of the cast at this point in time. If you can keep track of who has which alignment, Salome can jump in for remarkably high sustained damage against her favored targets, which is pretty cool.

Immune Debuff

Natural Body (Figure) C

Apply Debuff Immune to self (1 time, 3 turns).
Increase own DEF (3 turns).
Apply Invincible to self (1 time, 3 turns).

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Defense +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

Salome’s Natural Body is a one-hit invuln and a defense buff on a 5-turn CD. This isn’t a bad survival tool—while it only eats a single hit of damage, the shorter CD makes it decently flexible—though the defense buff is unlikely to be all that valuable given Salome’s innate fragility. The skill also gives Salome a one-time debuff immunity, though both it and the invuln will wear off if not consumed within 3 turns.

Heal per Turn

Dance of the Seven Veils A

Recover own HP every turn (7 turns).
Apply recurring buff to self: [Remove 1 Defensive Buff from self each turn] (7 turns). [Demerit]
Apply delayed buff to self: [After 7 turns, Increase NP Gauge for all allies] (1 time).

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
HP Regeneration	500	550	600	650	700	750	800	850	900	1000
NP Gauge Charge +	50%	55%	60%	65%	70%	75%	80%	85%	90%	100%
CD	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	7

Dance of the Seven Veils is a really weird skill. If you use it every time it’s available, it gives Salome permanent passive healing, but in exchange it removes one of Salome’s defensive buffs every turn. The passive healing doesn’t go very far on Salome’s kit, especially considering she’s liable to get one-shotted anyway, and the defense buff removal makes it that much harder to keep her alive, so in “standard” Salome play you’re probably better off treating this as a dead skill and not touching it. The trade-off is that if you are able to keep Salome alive until the skill ends, the entire party gets a 100% battery, setting up an immediate, free NP chain. Keeping a 2* Berserker alive for seven turns while she’s actively making it more difficult to do so is going to be a difficult proposition, and as strong as “AoE 100% battery” sounds it’s likely not worth the effort outside of show-off gimmick-type setups.

Noble Phantasm

	Rank	Classification	Hit-Count
B	Anti-Personnel	3

Effect	Deal damage to a single enemy. Inflict Curse on a single enemy (5 turns).

Level	1	2	3	4	5
Damage +	900%	1200%	1350%	1425%	1500%
Curse Damage	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000

Overcharge Effect	Apply Curse Damage Up to a single enemy (5 turns).

Charge	100%	200%	300%	400%	500%
Curse Damage +	200%	250%	300%	350%	400%

Usage Tips

Grail Potential

Conclusion

I went into this review expecting to rip Salome because of her third skill (among other things), but even as a two-skill Servants her kit is remarkably complete. She’s not the best servant out there, but she’s entirely workable as a hole-filler for budget Arts setups, she fills a role that was mostly-nonexistent before, and she has clear use cases. She’s not the most exciting of the new bronzes, but she’s a valuable addition to the game regardless.

Rabbit's Arbitrary Ratings

Overall: 7/10
Single-Target DPS: 8/10
AoE DPS: N/A
Survivability: 3/10
Offensive Utility: 2/10
Defensive Utility: 1/10
Farming Usefulness: 2/10
Demanding Heads: 10/10