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!

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Barbara Rating

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

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Barbara's Stats

Barbara Strengths and Weaknesses

How to Get Barbara

Baptism of Song

You can get Barbara for free after completing the Archon Quest, Prologue Act 3 A Long Shot, and reaching Adventure Rank 18.
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Pull from Wish Banners

You can also get Barbara by pulling on the Wish Banners in Genshin Impact. She is currently not a featured character rate-up in any active banners.
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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 is currently available during Version 1.6. You can get Barbara's outfit for free from the Echoing Tales Event after getting 24 Echoing Conches, but once 1.6 ends it will cost 1680 Genesis Crystals in the Shop.

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How to Use Barbara

Melody Loop Flexibility

Elemental Skill: Let the Show Begin

Barbara's Elemental Skill, Let the Show Begin, creates a Melody Loop that provides flexible healing depending on the active character.

If Barbara is the active character, her basic and charged attacks will heal the party (charged attacks giving more potent healing than the normal attacks); if Barbara is swapped out, then the active character is passively healed for the duration of the skill.

Take care when using this skill as it applies Wet to enemies and the active character and may trigger unwanted elemental reactions.

Burst Heal with Shining Miracle

Elemental Burst: Shining Miracle

Barbara's Elemental Burst, Shining Miracle, is currently the strongest healing skill in the game as it heals the entire party and 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

Currently, Barbara is the only source of auto-revive in Genshin Impact. Despite being locked behind her 6th Constellation, the auto revive potential alone makes Barbara perfect for challenging high level Abyss or Weekly Bosses.

Double Your Healing Food

Barbara shares the same cooking ability as Jean and grants a 12% change 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.

Hangout Event - Barbara

Join Barbara and learn more about the idol-sister of the Church of Favonius in her Hangout Event!

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Best Builds for Barbara

Main DPS	Sub DPS	Support

Barbara Support Builds

Full Healer Build

Weapon	Artifact Set
Prototype Amber	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
Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers	Bonus Stat: HP ・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.
Favonius Codex	Bonus Stat: Energy Recharge ・CRIT Hits have a 60% chance to generate a small amount of Elemental Particles, which will regenerate 6 Energy for the character. Can only occur once every 12s.

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	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.
Third Best	Instructor	• Increases Elemental Mastery by 80. • After using Elemental Skill, increases all party members' Elemental Mastery by 120 for 8s.

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Best Weapons Ranked

Rating	Weapon	Stats (Lv.1)
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.
Second 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.
Third Best	Favonius Codex	Base Stats Base Attack: 42 Bonus Effect: Energy Recharge 10% Skill Effect CRIT Hits have a 60% chance to generate a small amount of Elemental Particles, which will regenerate 6 Energy for the character. Can only occur once every 12s.

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Recommended Party Members for Barbara

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

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

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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