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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!
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List of Contents
Barbara | |
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Rating |
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Rarity |
★★★★
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Element | |
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Voice Actors |
EN Voice Actor: Laura Stahl
JP Voice Actor: Kito Akari |
Main DPS | Sub-DPS | Support | Exploration |
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Character Tier List | Best Characters
Stat | Base Value |
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HP | 2108 |
ATK | 34 |
DEF | 144 |
HP% | 0% |
Stat | Max Value |
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HP | 9787 |
ATK | 159 |
DEF | 669 |
HP% | 24.0% |
![]() | Stats indicated above are obtained from Barbara's base values. These numbers also exclude the character's equipped weapon, artifacts, talents, or other passive effects that are not innate to the character. |
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![]() | All characters start with 5% CRIT Rate, 50% CRIT DMG, 100% Energy Recharge, 0 Elemental Mastery, 0% Healing Bonus, and 0% Elemental DMG bonus before any additional stats are applied. The table above includes such values. |
![]() | The Level 20 stats indicated for this character are calculated before their first ascension. |
Strengths | |||
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• Elemental Skill can burst heal or heal over time. • Can auto revive characters at C6, which gives Barbara the benefit of having a rare safety net. • As a catalyst user, her hydro application is incredibly consistent, allowing her to slot into Dendro-focused teams as an on-field driver for Bloom and Hyperbloom. |
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Weaknesses | |||
• One-trick pony character, as most of her kit only revolves around Hydro application and healing. • Skills have long cooldowns, giving her an extremely limited time where she is effective if not played on-field. • Applies the Wet status on to herself and her teammates when casting her Elemental Skill, which may lead to enemies triggering reactions against you. |
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Replacement Weapons |
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Best Artifacts | |
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Artifact Sub Stats | Elemental Mastery, HP% |
A Barbara build focused on creating Dendro Cores through her Elemental Skill or Normal ATtacks will require her to use the Gilded Dreams Artifact Set with Elemental Mastery mainstats.
This build works especially well for Bloom teams or as Free to Play team for Nilou as a replacement for Kokomi.
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Best Artifacts | |
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Artifact Sub Stats | 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.
Alternatively, you can use the Maiden Beloved 4-piece set to opt for a purely healer-focused Barbara.
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1st | Elemental Skill |
2nd | Elemental Burst |
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.
Artifact | Artifact Bonuses | |
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1st |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
Artifact | Artifact Bonuses |
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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
Weapon | Weapon Information | |
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1st |
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Base ATK: 401 Bonus Stat: HP 35.2% 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. |
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Base ATK: 608 Bonus Stat: HP 49.6% 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. |
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Base ATK: 510 Bonus Stat: HP 41.3% 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. |
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Base ATK: 510 Bonus Stat: HP 41.3% 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. |
Recommended Weapons | How to Get |
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Barbara can be a flexible character to put in your teams that require a healer. She can be used to apply Hydro against enemies and keep your team alive.
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Barbara Dendro Core teams focuses on Barbara generating Dendro Cores in tandem with her Dendro allies. With fridge teams, there is the added benefit of freezing enemies in place, allowing bloom cores to reliably pop around them.
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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.
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Barbara's Constellations | |
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C1 |
Gleeful Songs Barbara regenerates 1 Energy every 10s. |
C2 |
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. |
C3 |
Star of Tomorrow Increases the Level of Shining Miracle by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15. |
C4 |
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. |
C5 |
The Purest Companionship Increases the Level of Let the Show Begin by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15. |
C6 |
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. |
Rating | Constellation Effect / Merits | |
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C2 | ★★☆ |
• Decreases Elemental Skill cooldown by 15%. • Provide 15% Hydro DMG Bonus to the active character during Elemental Skill Duration |
C6 | ★★★ | • Revives a fallen teammate to full HP if they die. Resets every 15 minutes. |
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.
Lv.20→Lv.40 | |
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Lv.40→Lv.50 |
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Lv.50→Lv.60 |
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Lv.60→Lv.70 |
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Lv.70→Lv.80 |
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Lv.80→Lv.90 |
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Daily Domain Drops | Enemy Drops | Weekly Boss Drops |
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![]() 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Talent Description |
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Perform up to 4 water splash attacks that deal Hydro DMG.
Charge Attack Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to deal AoE Hydro DMG after a short casting time. Plunge Attack: Gathering the might of Hydro, Barbara plunges towards the ground from mid-air, damaging all enemies in her path. Deals AoE Hydro DMG upon impact with the ground. |
Attribute | Effect (Lvl 1) |
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1-Hit DMG | 37.8% |
2-Hit DMG | 35.5% |
3-Hit DMG | 41.0% |
4-Hit DMG | 55.2% |
Charged Attack DMG | 166% |
Charged Attack Stamina Cost | 50.0 |
Plunge DMG | 56.8% |
Low/High Plunge DMG | 114%/142% |
Talent Description |
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Summons water droplets resembling musical notes that form a Melody Loop, dealing Hydro DMG to surrounding enemies and afflicting them with the Wet status.
Melody Loop ・Barbara's Normal Attacks heal your characters in the party and nearby allied characters for a certain amount of HP, which scales with Barbara's Max HP. ・Her Charged Attacks generates 4 times the amount of healing. ・Regenerates a certain amount of HP at regular intervals for your active character. ・Applies the Wet status to the character and enemies who come in contact with them. Flavor Text: Barbara's music is the magic that healds her companions. |
Attribute | Effect (Lvl 1) |
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HP Regeneration per Hit | 0.75% Max HP +72 |
Continuous Regeneration | 4.0% Max HP +385 |
Droplet DMG | 58.4% |
Duration | 15.0s |
CD | 32s |
Talent Description |
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Heals nearby allied characters and your characters in the party for a large amount of HP that scales with Barbara's Max HP.
Flavor Text: Barbara's desire to heal strengthens her will to fight and sing. |
Attribute | Effect (Lvl 1) |
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Healing Amount | 17.6% Max HP +1694 |
CD | 20s |
Energy Cost | 80 |
Talent Description |
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The Stamina Consumption of characters within Let the Show Begin's Melody Loop is reduced by 12%. |
Talent Description |
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When your active character gains an Elemental Orb/Particle, the duration of Let the Show Begin's Melody Loop is extended by 1s. The maximum extension is 5s. |
Talent Description |
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When a Perfect Cooking is achieved on a dish with restorative effects, there is a 12% chance to obtain double the product. |
All Current Wish Banners | |
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Barbara is available at a normal rate on all Wish Banners except Beginner's Wish. This means you can get her from Wanderlust Invocation, Epitome Invocation, and the current Character Event Wishes.
Barbara was last featured at an increased rate in both Neuvillette and Kazuha's rerun banner in Phase 2 of Version 4.5, from April 2, 2024 to April 23, 2024!
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Months | Characters and Weapons |
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January July |
Blackcliff Weapon Series |
February August |
Royal Weapon Series |
March September |
Blackcliff Weapon Series |
April October |
Royal Weapon Series |
May November |
Blackcliff Weapon Series |
June December |
Royal Weapon Series |
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.
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's Character Skins |
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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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Character | In-Game Thoughts |
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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. |
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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... |
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How come all my fans are drunk middle-aged men, while Barbara's are all young people...? Hmph! So stupid. Forget it! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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Shining Barbara is a good child. Very good child. |
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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. |
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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... |
Character | In-Game Thoughts |
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About Amber I've seen Amber rushing out of Mondstadt on a mission countless times. Being an Outrider doesn't look easy. |
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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. |
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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? |
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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! |
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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... |
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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! |
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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... |
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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. |
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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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Weaklings you have not recommend shimenawa on Barbara I say this because it is her 2bis artifact in her as she procc almost 80k vape dmg every time you do a rotation you only need atk, hydro, and crit as main stat and, crit, atk, em as your substats your team is supposed to be if not kazuha (sucrose) is your buffer and vv sreader and two pyro mostly Bennet and xiangling you either don't need the raw hydro dmg or do a lot of vape so I recommend using shim
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don't yapp in her weakness as she is powerful with the right set and shim is her vape's 2nd best in slot artifact as her vape's best in slot is wondered troupe