Barbara Rating and Best Builds | Genshin Impact

Barbara is a 4-star Hydro Catalyst character in Genshin Impact. Learn about Barbara's stats, strengths and weaknesses, Japanese voice actor, best weapon and builds, and our rating of the character in this complete profile!

Barbara

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Barbara's Character Guides
Build Guide	Specialty Dish

Barbara's Hangout Events
Wellspring of Healing	Act 2	Act 3

Barbara Rating and Information

Character Information

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

Tier List Rankings

Main DPS	Sub-DPS	Support	Exploration
N/A	N/A

Character Tier List | Best Characters

Barbara's Stats

Barbara Strengths and Weaknesses

Barbara Recommended Constellations

C6 Is 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.

How to Get Barbara

Pull from Any Active Banner

All Current Wish Banners
Epitome Invocation	Oni's Royale
Beginner's Wish	Wanderlust Invocation

Barbara is available at a normal rate on all Standard Wish Banners, including the Beginner's Wish. This means you can get her from Wanderlust Invocation, Epitome Invocation, and the current Character Event Wishes.

All Wish Banners Guide

Bought From the Starglitter Exchange

This Month's Featured Characters
Barbara	Kaeya

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.

Masterless Starglitter Shop

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.

Baptism of Song Event Mechanics

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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Best Builds for Barbara

Barbara's Roles and Builds

Main DPS	Sub DPS	Support

Healer Support Build

Full Healer

Weapon	Artifact Set
Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers	Maiden Beloved x4
Set Bonus
• Character Healing Effectiveness +15%. • Using an Elemental Skill or Burst increases healing received by all party members by 20% for 10s.
Talent Priority
Let the Show Begin Summons water droplets resembling musical notes that form a Melody Loop, dealing Hydro DMG to surrounding enemies and afflicting them with the Wet status.

Recommended Artifact Substats

Stat Priority	HP HP HP or Healing Bonus
Substats	・HP

Replacement Weapons

Weapon	Effect
Everlasting Moonglow	Bonus Stat: HP ・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.
Prototype Amber	Bonus Stat: HP ・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 Artifacts and Weapons for Barbara

Best Artifacts Ranked

Rating	Set	Bonus
Best	Maiden Beloved	• Character Healing Effectiveness +15%. • Using an Elemental Skill or Burst increases healing received by all party members by 20% for 10s.
Second Best	Ocean-Hued Clam	• Healing Bonus +15% • 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.
Third Best	The Exile	• Energy Recharge +20% • Using an Elemental Burst regenerates 2 Energy for all party members (excluding the wearer) every 2s for 6s. This effect cannot stack.

List of Artifacts and Set Bonuses

Best Weapons Ranked

Rating	Weapon	Stats (Lv.1)
Best	Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers	Base Stats Base Attack: 39 Bonus Effect: 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.
Second Best	Everlasting Moonglow	Base Stats Base Attack: 46 Bonus Effect: HP 10.0% 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.
Third Best	Prototype Amber	Base Stats Base Attack: 42 Bonus Effect: HP 10.0% 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 F2P Weapon

Name	Stats (Lv.1)
Prototype Amber	Base Stats Base Attack: 42 Bonus Effect: HP 10.0% 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.

List of Catalysts

Recommended Party Members for Barbara

Best Characters and Strategies

Character	Element	Weapon
Diluc	Pyro	Claymore
	· Barbara can easily apply Wet to enemies on cue. · Diluc will have massive DMG output due to the Vaporize reaction.
Klee	Pyro	Catalyst
	· Barbara can easily apply Wet while Klee can Vaporize with every attack. · Klee will have massive DMG output due to the Vaporize reaction.
Xingqiu	Hydro	Sword
	· Hydro Elemental Resonance increases healing by 30%. · Xingqiu has minor healing abilities, which can aid the party as well.
Tartaglia	Hydro	Bow
	· Hydro Elemental Resonance increases healing by 30%. · Energy Recharge is increased with two Hydro Characters.

How to Use Barbara

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 Ascension and Talent Materials

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

Barbara Talents (Skills)

Normal Attack: Whisper of Water

Let the Show Begin

Shining Miracle

Glorious Season

Encore

With My Whole Heart

Barbara Constellations

Constellations and Effects

Gleeful Songs	Barbara regenerates 1 Energy every 10s.
Vitality Burst	Decrease the CD of Let the Show Begin by 15%. During the ability's duration, your active character gains 15% Hydro DMG Bonus.
Star of Tomorrow	Increases the Level of Shining Miracle by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Attentiveness be My Power	Every enemy Barbara hits with her Charged Attack regenerates 1 Energy for her. A maximum of 5 energy can be regenerated in this manner with any one Charged Attack.
The Purest Companionship	Increases the Level of Let the Show Begin by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Dedicating Everything to You	When Barbara is not on the field, and one of your characters falls: ・Automatically revives this character. ・Fully regenerates this character's HP to 100%. This effect can only occur once every 15 mins.

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