Barbara Rating and Best Builds | Genshin Impact

Barbara is a 4-Star Hydro Catalyst character in Genshin Impact. Learn about Barbara's build, ascension materials, best weapons, best artifacts, talent priority, skills, teams, and our rating of the character in this build guide!

Barbara

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Wellspring of Healing	Act 2	Act 3

Barbara Rating and Info

Character Information

Barbara
Rating
Rarity	★★★★
Element	Hydro
Weapon	Catalyst
Voice Actors	EN Voice Actor: Laura Stahl JP Voice Actor: Kito Akari

Tier List Rankings

Main DPS	Sub-DPS	Support	Exploration
	N/A

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Barbara's Stats

Barbara's Strengths and Weaknesses

Best Builds for Barbara

Main DPS and Support Builds for Barbara

Main DPS	Dendro Core Team
Support	Healer Hybrid
	Full Healer

Barbara Dendro Core Build

Best Weapon	Sacrificial Fragments
Replacement Weapons	1. Magic Guide 2. Wandering Evenstar
Best Artifacts	Gilded Dreams x4
Main Stats	Sands: Elemental Mastery
	Goblet: Elemental Mastery
	Circlet: Elemental Mastery
Substats	Elemental Mastery and HP%

A Barbara build focused on creating Dendro Cores through her Normal Attacks will require her to use the Gilded Dreams Artifact Set with Elemental Mastery Mainstats.

This build works especially well for Fridge teams (Barbara, 2 Dendro's, 1 off-field Cryo Damage Dealer) or a Free to Play team for Nilou as a replacement for Kokomi.

Healer Hybrid Build

Best Weapon	Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers
Replacement Weapons	1. Everlasting Moonglow 2. Prototype Amber
Best Artifacts	Ocean-Hued Clam x4
Main Stats	Sands: HP%
	Goblet: HP%
	Circlet: HP% or Healing Bonus%
Substats	HP%

This Barbara build allows you to deal DMG while healing at the same time through using the bubble from the Ocean-Hued Clam set. The Bubble can easily deal maximum DMG when Barbara uses her Elemental Burst.

Full Healer

Best Weapon	Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers
Replacement Weapons	1. Everlasting Moonglow 2. Prototype Amber
Best Artifacts	Maiden Beloved x4
Main Stats	Sands: HP%
	Goblet: HP%
	Circlet: HP% or Healing Bonus%
Substats	HP%

This Barbara build specializes in pure healing, which makes your party have no trouble in surviving even the hardest content in the game.

Barbara's Talent Priority

Barbara's healing talents come from her Elemental Burst and her Elemental Skill. Prioritize on her Elemental Burst first since it provides a massive amount of healing to the party.

Only level up her Normal Attacks if you are using her as a Main DPS.

Best Artifacts for Barbara

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Best Artifacts Ranked

	Artifact	Artifact Bonuses
1st	Ocean-Hued	2-PC: Healing Bonus +15% 4-PC: When the character with this artifact set heals a party member, 1 Foam will appear. It accumulates healed HP for 3 seconds, then explodes and deals 90% of the HP healed as DMG to nearby enemies. Max accumulated healing is 30,000 HP, including over-heal. There can only be 1 Foam active, but it stays even if you swap out. Foam CD is 3.5s.
2nd	Maiden	2-PC: Character Healing Effectiveness +15%. 4-PC: Using an Elemental Skill or Burst increases healing received by all party members by 20% for 10s.
3rd	Gilded	2-PC: Elemental Mastery +80 4-PC: Within 8s of triggering an Elemental Reaction, the character equipping this will obtain buffs based on the Elemental Type of the other party members. ATK is increased by 14% for each member whose Elemental Type is the same as the equipping character, and EM is increased by 50 for every member with a different Elemental Type. Each of the buffs will count up to 3 characters. This effect can be triggered once every 8s and even when not on the field.

Best 4-Star Artifact for Barbara

Artifact	Artifact Bonuses
Instructor	2-PC: Increases Elemental Mastery by 80. 4-PC: Upon triggering an Elemental Reaction, increases all party members' Elemental Mastery by 120 for 8s.

List of Artifacts and Set Bonuses

Barbara Best Weapons

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Top 3 Barbara Weapons

	Weapon	Weapon Information
1st	Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers	Bonus Stat: HP 7.7% Skill Effect: When switching characters, the new character taking the field has their ATK increased by 24% for 10s. This effect can only occur once every 20s.
2nd	Everlasting Moonglow	Bonus Stat: HP 10.8% Skill Effect: Healing Bonus is increased by 10%, Normal ATK DMG is increased by 1% of the Max HP of the character equipping this weapon. For 12s after using an Elemental Burst, Normal Attacks that hit opponents will restore 0.6 Energy. Energy can be restored this way once every 0.1s.
3rd	Prototype Amber	Bonus Stat: HP 9.0% Skill Effect: Using an Elemental Burst regenerates 4 Energy every 2s for 6s. Additionally, all party members will regenerate 4% HP every 2s for this duration.

Best Free-to-Play Weapon for Barbara

Weapon	Weapon Information
Prototype Amber	Bonus Stat: HP 9.0% Skill Effect: Using an Elemental Burst regenerates 4 Energy every 2s for 6s. Additionally, all party members will regenerate 4% HP every 2s for this duration.

All Recommended Weapons for Barbara

Recommended Weapons	How to Get
Everlasting Moonglow	Gacha
Prototype Amber	Crafted
Favonius Codex	Gacha
Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers	Gacha
Otherworldly Story	Chests

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Barbara Best Team Comp

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Barbara Dendro Core Teams

Fridge Team

Main DPS	Sub-DPS	Sub-DPS	Support
Barbara	Kaeya	Collei	Traveler (Dendro)

This Dendro team focuses on Freezing and creating Dendro Cores through Barbara's Hydro Normal Attacks. It will also freeze enemies in place, letting you safely deal damage!

Nilou Free to Play Team

Main DPS	Sub-DPS	Sub-DPS	Support
Barbara	Nilou	Collei	Traveler (Dendro)

This Baraba Dendro Core team has her act as a substitute for Kokomi if they don't have her for Nilou's ideal team comp.

Barabara Support Role

Main DPS	Sub-DPS	Sub-DPS	Support
Raiden	Yelan	Kazuha	Barbara

Barbara as a support can be fitted in any team comp. She applies very little Hydro through her Elemental Skill, which can help in not interfering with other Elemental Reactions. In this team comp we have Barbara as a support and the second Hydro unit just so we can enable the Hydro Resonance, which will increase Yelan's damage.

Barbara Best Constellations

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C6 Helps in Spiral Abyss

Reviving a teammate in Spiral Abyss is an extremely rare character ability. Just remember that you will need to wait 15 minutes while inside the chamber to reset the cooldown.

Barbara Ascension and Talent Materials

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Barbara Ascension Materials

Lv.20→Lv.40	Philanemo Mushroom ×3 Varunada Lazurite Sliver ×1 Divining Scroll ×3
Lv.40→Lv.50	Philanemo Mushroom ×10 Varunada Lazurite Fragment ×3 Divining Scroll ×15 Cleansing Heart ×2
Lv.50→Lv.60	Philanemo Mushroom ×20 Varunada Lazurite Fragment ×6 Sealed Scroll ×12 Cleansing Heart ×4
Lv.60→Lv.70	Philanemo Mushroom ×30 Varunada Lazurite Chunk ×3 Sealed Scroll ×18 Cleansing Heart ×8
Lv.70→Lv.80	Philanemo Mushroom ×45 Varunada Lazurite Chunk ×6 Forbidden Curse Scroll ×12 Cleansing Heart ×12
Lv.80→Lv.90	Philanemo Mushroom ×60 Varunada Lazurite Gemstone ×6 Forbidden Curse Scroll ×24 Cleansing Heart ×20

Barbara Talent Level-Up Materials

Daily Domain Drops	Enemy Drops	Weekly Boss Drops
Mon/Thu/Sun Teachings of Freedom	Samachurls Divining Scroll	Lupus Boreas Challenge Reward Ring of Boreas
Guide to Freedom	Sealed Scroll
Philosophies of Freedom	Forbidden Curse Scroll

Talent Materials per Level

How to Use Barbara

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Elemental Skill Provides Off-Field Healing

Elemental Skill: Let the Show Begin

Barbara's Elemental Skill, Let the Show Begin, creates a Melody Loop that provides off-field healing to your active character.

If Barbara is the active character, her Normal and Charged Attacks will heal all party members (Charged Attacks give more potent healing than Normal Attacks).

If Barbara is switched out, then the active character is passively healed for every five seconds during the duration of the Skill.

Be careful around Elemental Enemies

Take care when using Barbara's Elemental Skill as it applies Wet to enemies and the active character and may trigger unwanted Elemental Reactions to yourself such as Frozen or Electro-Charged.

Burst Heal with Elemental Burst

Elemental Burst: Shining Miracle

Barbara's Elemental Burst, Shining Miracle, is a strong burst that massively heals the HP of your entire party. This skill scales with Barbara's Max HP.

This is a great emergency heal, and it's best to always have it ready before taking on difficult challenges.

Auto Revive at Max Constellation

Despite being locked behind her 6th Constellation, the auto revive potential alone makes Barbara decent to bring for challenging high level Spiral Abyss or Weekly Bosses.

Barbara and Qiqi are the only characters who can revive fallen party members. They both unlock this feature at C6.

Double Your Healing Food

Barbara shares the same cooking ability as Jean and grants a 12% chance of doubling the cooking product when cooking a dish perfectly. This should be taken advantage of as much as possible when cooking high rarity healing dishes.

Barbara Talents (Skills)

Normal Attack: Whisper of Water

Let the Show Begin

Shining Miracle

Glorious Season

Encore

With My Whole Heart

How to Get Barbara

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Epitome Invocation	Tapestry of Golden Flames
Everbloom Violet	Wanderlust Invocation

Barbara is available at a normal rate on all Standard Wish Banners except Beginner's Wish. This means you can get her from Wanderlust Invocation, Epitome Invocation.

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Bought From the Starglitter Exchange

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Kaeya	Barbara

As a 4-star character, Barbara has a chance to appear in the Starglitter Exchange every month. She can be traded for 34 Masterless Starglitter.

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Free Barbara from Baptism of Song

You can get Barbara for free after completing the Archon Quest ''A Long Shot,'' and reaching Adventure Rank 18.

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Barbara Character Skins

List of Barbara's Character Outfits

Barbara's Character Skins
Enlarge Summer Outfit: Summertime Sparkle

How to Get Barbara's Character Skin

Barbara's character skin was temporarily available for free during Version 1.6 from the Echoing Tales Event after getting 24 Echoing Conches. Currently, Barbara's Outfit costs 1680 Genesis Crystals in the Shop.

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Barbara's In-Game Information

Barbara Voicelines

Thoughts About Barbara

Character	In-Game Thoughts
Albedo	Barbara? She's a very earnest Deaconess. I once had the opportunity to sketch her a simple portrait... What happened to the sketch? Ah yes... Albert offered to purchase it, but I rejected his bid and gave it to the Acting Grand Master. Social relations... really require a lot of effort.
Bennett	She's the best singer and dancer out there! I always go to watch her in concert after and adventure goes south - it really lifts my mood, chanting along with all the other fans, cheering her on. It's really kinda magical! It's no wonder she's so popular... Boy, if I had even half her popularity as leader of my adventure team...
Diona	How come all my fans are drunk middle-aged men, while Barbara's are all young people...? Hmph! So stupid. Forget it!
Eula	Everyone loves her. What's her secret? Maybe I could learn a thing or two from her... Hmm, or maybe not. I can't imagine a "Shining Idol" would want anything to do with a descendant of a depraved dynasty.
Jean	Barbara is a hard worker, but I feel she's too hard on herself sometimes... What? You ask me how I know all of this? It's because the order also manages the Church.
Lisa	Have you heard Barbara sing before? Her angelic voice contains a magical healing energy. A different kind of magical energy from the one in my potions, of course. I wonder which on you prefer?
Noelle	We take tea breaks together sometimes. Often she'll start humming a tune, saying inspiration has come to her. I'm not the right person to give useful feedback on anything musical... But I still love spending time with Barbara.
Razor	Shining Barbara is a good child. Very good child.
Rosaria	Barbara is like a thorn in my side, always nagging me about mass and choir practice. I wouldn't be surprised if Sister Victoria specifically asked her to keep an eye on me.
Venti	The darling Deaconess with the sweet singing voice — do you know her? You do? Idol, huh? Meet and greets? Concerts? Wow... That's the power of music for you...

Barbara's Thoughts About Others

Character	In-Game Thoughts
Amber	About Amber I've seen Amber rushing out of Mondstadt on a mission countless times. Being an Outrider doesn't look easy.
Bennett	About Bennett Bennett always comes to the cathedral covered in scrapes and bruises... Though it clearly never bothers him a bit, given the big grin he always has on his face. He really should take better care of himself.
Diluc	About Diluc Oh, Master Diluc? Last time, when I was performing at Angel's Share, he kept frowning... Maybe he doesn't like my singing?
Jean	About Jean Acting Grand Master... Leader of the Knights of Favonius... Everyone seems to like her a lot. Oh? Me? I... Of course I have nothing but admiration for her!
Lisa	About Lisa I always take good care of Lisa. If she ever wants to become a star, she'll have my unconditional support, I'll cheer at the top of my lungs until my voice goes hoarse... Hmm, that might scare off her other fans though...
Noelle	About Noelle Noelle is just the cutest! She's so kind and patient, you just feel totally relaxed when you're around her. ...Oh yeah, and she makes the tastiest snacks! Best part is, they're also healthy. Tee-hee!
Rosaria	About Rosaria Sister Rosaria is hard to get to know, especially given she never joins in on prayers, but... Oh, I'm sure she believes in the Anemo Archon! Although, I still don't really have the courage to try to talk to her...
Varka	About Varka My father left on the expedition with Grand Master Varka... I hope they are okay. Oh, what am I worried about? The Grand Master is none other than the Knight of Boreas, of course they will be fine! Still, I will be sure to pray for their safe return.
Venti	About Venti Venti's voice is amazing! But the songs he sings and the ones I'm good at are very different. I tried to learn them but... the melodies are just so complicated.

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Barbara	Candace	Kokomi	Mona
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