Bartholomew Roberts

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Servant Skills

Np Dmg

Voyager of the Storm A+

Increase NP Strength for all allies (1 turn).
Increase ATK for all allies (1 turn).

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
NP Damage +	8.5%	9.4%	10.2%	11.1%	11.9%	12.8%	13.6%	14.5%	15.3%	17%
Attack +	8.5%	9.4%	10.2%	11.1%	11.9%	12.8%	13.6%	14.5%	15.3%	17%
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

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Available from the start

Crit Absorb Down

Pirate Gentleman A

Decrease own Critical Star Gather Rate by 100% (3 turns).
Increase Critical Strength for all allies (3 turns).

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Crit Damage +	20%	22%	24%	26%	28%	30%	32%	34%	36%	40%
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

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Unlocks after 1st Ascension

Crit Absorb Down

Pirate Gentleman A+

Decrease own Critical Star Gather Rate by 100% (3 turns).
Increase Critical Strength for all allies (3 turns).
Increase NP Gauge for all allies by 10%.

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Crit Damage +	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

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Upgrades after Rank Up 1. (Not available, ETA 8/2024)

Quick Up

Swift Pillager A

Increase own Quick Card effectiveness (3 turns).
Decrease Critical Rate for all enemies (3 turns).
Gain Critical Stars.

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Quick +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
Crit Chance -	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
Stars +	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	20
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

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Unlocks after 3rd Ascension

Append Skills

Special ATK

Extra Attack Boost

Increase own Extra Attack Card effectiveness.

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Extra ATK Eff +	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%

Start Np

Load Magical Energy

Begin battle with NP Gauge charged.

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

Dmg Up

Anti-Berserker (ATK Up)

Deal extra Special ATK damage to [Berserker] class enemies.

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Special ATK +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%

Class Skills

Riding D

Increase your Quick Card effectiveness by 4%.

Magic Resistance E

Increase your Debuff Resist by 10%.

Noble Phantasm

Black Dirty Barti Howling C+~B-

Deal heavy damage to all enemies.
Decrease DEF for all enemies by 20% (3 turns).

<Overcharge>

Deal extra Supereffective damage to [Low-Rarity] enemies.
(All Bronze or 1-2 star count as [Low-Rarity])

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Black Dirty Barti Howling

Roar of the Noble Pirate Baron's Cannons

	Rank	Classification	Hit-Count
	C+~B-	Anti-Army	6

Effect	Deal heavy damage to all enemies. Decrease DEF for all enemies by 20% (3 turns).

Level	1	2	3	4	5
Damage +	600%	800%	900%	950%	1000%
Defense -	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%

Overcharge Effect	Deal extra Supereffective damage to [Low-Rarity] enemies. (All Bronze or 1-2 star count as [Low-Rarity])

Charge	100%	200%	300%	400%	500%
Add. Damage +	150%	162.5%	175%	187.5%	200%

Assorted Info

Attack / HP Growth

Stat Ratings

Interlude Quests

Quest	Requirements	Reward
✔ Interlude 1 Chapter Completion: Fuyuki	Ascension: 2 Bond: 3
✖ Rank Up 1 (ETA: 8/2024) Chapter Completion: Fuyuki	Ascension: 4 Bond: 0	Skill 2

Ascension Materials

Stage	Cost	Materials
2	10,000	x2 Rider Piece
3	30,000	x4 Rider Piece x8 Fool's Chain
4	90,000	x2 Rider Monument x2 Black Beast Grease x2 Ghost Lantern
Max	300,000	x4 Rider Monument x4 Ghost Lantern x4 Serpent Jewel

Skill Enhancement Materials

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	10,000	x2 Gem of Rider
2 → 3	20,000	x4 Gem of Rider
3 → 4	60,000	x2 Magic Gem of Rider
4 → 5	80,000	x4 Magic Gem of Rider x1 Black Beast Grease
5 → 6	200,000	x2 Secret Gem of Rider x2 Black Beast Grease
6 → 7	250,000	x4 Secret Gem of Rider x5 Fool's Chain
7 → 8	500,000	x10 Fool's Chain x2 Shell of Reminiscence
8 → 9	600,000	x6 Shell of Reminiscence x24 Mystic Gunpowder
9 → 10	1,000,000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Append Skill Materials

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	10000	x2 Gem of Rider
2 → 3	20000	x4 Gem of Rider
3 → 4	60000	x2 Magic Gem of Rider
4 → 5	80000	x4 Magic Gem of Rider x2 Ghost Lantern
5 → 6	200000	x2 Secret Gem of Rider x4 Ghost Lantern
6 → 7	250000	x4 Secret Gem of Rider x2 Serpent Jewel
7 → 8	500000	x3 Serpent Jewel x6 Mystic Spinal Fluid
8 → 9	600000	x18 Mystic Spinal Fluid x8 Scale of Fantasy
9 → 10	1000000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Total Materials Required

Costume Dress Materials

Bond CE

Pirate's Rule

When equipped on Bartholomew Roberts,
Increase all allies' NP Generation and NP Damage by 10% when he is on the field.

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Overview

“Master, look at all these treasures I’ve gathered! Naturally, one of them is you.”

Also known as Black Bart or Barti Ddu, Bartholomew Roberts joins the ranks of the pirate Servants in FGO. It’s easy to overlook Barti’s supportive value, but hidden behind his low stats and AoE NP is a surprisingly robust set of damage-boosting tools. While Barti isn’t the best at outputting damage himself, he has several ways of facilitating party critical attacks and increasing his allies’ damage, making him a deceptively unselfish Servant.

Barti’s signature skill is Pirate Gentleman, which increases the entire team’s critical attack damage while also reducing Barti’s critical star gather rate to 0. This allows Barti to get around the usual disadvantage of being a support-oriented Rider, and it sets teammates up for consistent and powerful critical attacks. Barti also gets the pirate-standard Voyager of the Storm to boost the team’s attack and NP damage, and his Noble Phantasm, Black Dirty Barti Howling, also reduces the enemy team’s defense, which means Barti can meaningfully support his teammates’ damage output, and all as a low-cost, 1* Servant.

In exchange for these strengths, Barti struggles when he has to play selfishly. His low stats mean he’ll struggle to deal meaningful damage himself without heavy investment, even with all of his buffs in play. Furthermore, his low health, coupled with his limited survival tools, mean he’ll go down quickly to enemy fire. As a result, even though his skill cooldowns are generally short, he may struggle to survive long enough to use them a second time in a fight. Furthermore, his NP gain is painfully low for his deck, which means he will struggle to gain access to his NP without the help of NP charge skills or Arts chains.

Barti’s key selling point is that he brings a lot of supportive value for just 3 points of team cost. Even teams full of high-rarity Servants and Craft Essences can usually afford to slot Barti in for a little bit of extra damage push, and Barti’s supportive tools are general-purpose enough that he’ll pretty much always be useful. Barti strengthens most any team he’s added to, which makes him a highly worthwhile Servant to invest in.

Strengths

Weaknesses

Level Up Skill Recommendation

Skill	Priority
Voyager of the Storm A+ Increase NP Strength for all allies (1 turn). Increase ATK for all allies (1 turn). Show Info Lvl 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NP Damage + 8.5% 9.4% 10.2% 11.1% 11.9% 12.8% 13.6% 14.5% 15.3% 17% Attack + 8.5% 9.4% 10.2% 11.1% 11.9% 12.8% 13.6% 14.5% 15.3% 17% CD 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 5
Pirate Gentleman A Decrease own Critical Star Gather Rate by 100% (3 turns). Increase Critical Strength for all allies (3 turns). Show Info Lvl 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Crit Damage + 20% 22% 24% 26% 28% 30% 32% 34% 36% 40% CD 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 6
Swift Pillager A Increase own Quick Card effectiveness (3 turns). Decrease Critical Rate for all enemies (3 turns). Gain Critical Stars. Show Info Lvl 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quick + 10% 11% 12% 13% 14% 15% 16% 17% 18% 20% Crit Chance - 10% 11% 12% 13% 14% 15% 16% 17% 18% 20% Stars + 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 CD 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 5

Voyager of the Storm scales well with levels and allows Barti to push his team’s damage by a significant margin and as such should be leveled first. Swift Pillager should be leveled second, as the increased number of critical stars leads to more consistent critical access, and the increased critical rate reduction is also meaningful for team survival. Pirate Gentleman should be leveled last, as it has the weakest scaling, but it also increases Barti’s supportive value and should not be neglected. As a 1* Servant, Barti’s skills are cheap to level, and his effectiveness increases significantly when his skills are fully leveled, so all three should be taken to max level if possible.

• Voyager of the Storm boosts the entire team’s attack and NP damage for a turn, making it Barti’s most generic supportive tool. As the attack and NP damage buffs stack multiplicatively, this amounts to a lot of extra damage on the turn it’s used. For maximum impact, this should be used when both Barti and a full damage-dealer are ready to use their NPs so that both benefit from the extra damage.
• Pirate Gentleman lets Barti get around the usual disadvantages of running a Rider support, suppressing his own star gather rate. With this skill active, it is easy for Barti’s teammates to draw critical stars and access critical attacks. Since the skill also boosts the team’s critical damage, this can add up to a significant boost to overall team performance.
• Swift Pillager is a busy skill. Its most important feature is that it provides 20 critical stars, which, combined with Pirate Gentleman, makes Barti’s allies pretty likely to be able to crit on the turn the skill is used. The skill also reduces enemy crit rate by 20%. Critical attack rates are additive, and even crit-prone classes like Assassins typically have no more than 30% base crit rate, which means this skill can reliably suppress enemy crits provided there are no buffs in play. Negating crits adds a lot to team stability and is pretty much always useful, which makes this a nice bit of extra utility when Barti uses this skill. Finally, the skill increases Barti’s Quick card performance, which helps him deal a little bit more damage and generate a little bit more NP and a few more stars, both of which are always appreciated.

Craft Essence Recommendation

Kaleidoscope

The Imaginary Element

A Fragment of 2030

His Rightful Place

Wolves of Mibu

Meeting of the Heirs

One Summer

Midsummer Memories

Hide Hunter

Traces of Christmases Past

In order to ensure Barti gets access to the damage and supportive value of his NP, Starting NP Gauge Craft Essences are highly recommended. Passive Critical Star Generation Craft Essences are also useful on Barti, as they work well with Pirate Gentleman for enabling party critical attacks. Quick Performance Up and NP Gain Up Craft Essences are useful in setups where Barti needs to contribute damage, as they help offset his low base damage output and low base NP gain.

• Kaleidoscope / The Imaginary Element: These starting NP CEs make Barti more likely to gain access to his NP before he dies. A max-limit-broken Kaleidoscope is especially valuable, as it guarantees Barti has full access to his supportive tools when he arrives on the field.
• A Fragment of 2030 / His Rightful Place / Wolves of Mibu / Meeting of the Heirs: These CEs provide critical stars every turn, which is useful when using Barti for his critical support benefits. 2030 provides more stars than the others, while each of the other CEs provides another benefit Barti wants: starting NP gauge, Quick damage up, and NP gain up, respectively.
• One Summer / Memories of the Height of Summer / Hide Hunter / Christmas Locus: These CEs increase Barti’s Quick card performance, NP gain, or both. Christmas Locus comes with a special recommendation, as it increases Quick card performance and NP gain both, while also providing starting NP gauge. Furthermore, all of Christmas Locus’s stat boosts go to attack, so it helps offset Barti’s low base attack stat. It is one of the best CEs for Barti specifically, providing almost all of the benefits he wants from a CE.

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