Guide to Barbara in Genshin Impact: builds and leveling

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In Genshin Impact Barbara is an excellent healer, so she will come in handy for any team. Plus, if you created your account before the release of Update 1.1, you can get this character for free after you reach Adventure Rank 20 (just check your email).

If you want to maximize the possibilities of this heroine, then study our guide. In it, we will look at Barbara's main features, suggest what weapons and artifacts to give her, and indicate who her skills are best combined with.

Characteristics of Barbara

Skills

Her basic attack "Whisper of Water" is simple in that it deals Hydro damage, which combines well with the skills of other characters. Her elemental blast, Miraculous Radiance, is a normal healing spell that restores health to all party members. The effectiveness of the treatment depends on the maximum size of Barbara's health.

The rest of her abilities revolve around her unique "Musical Loop" buff, which is granted after using the Let the Show Begin skill. When activated, Barbara and any other character you switch to will receive a musical aura that makes enemies wet and deals hydro damage to them.

If you're still controlling Barbara, this bonus also causes all of her attacks to heal the group, and Charged Strike does it 4 times better. Regardless of who you play as, this character will passively regenerate health points for team members and make opponents wet.

Your party members will also have their stamina consumption reduced by 12% thanks to Harvest Season, which is extremely useful when using Charge Attacks frequently or regularly climbing rocks. Once you unlock the Encore skill, you can extend the buff for another 5 seconds.

Whisper of Water - Normal Attack: Allows up to 4 hits with water splashes that deal Hydro damage. Charged Attack: Consumes a certain amount of stamina to deal Hydro damage in an area after a short period of time. Air Attack: Barbara rushes to the ground, dealing damage to all enemies in her path.
Let the Show Begin – Summons water drops that look like musical notes that form a melody loop, dealing Hydro damage to surrounding enemies and hitting them with a “wet” status. We talked about the buff a little higher.
Miraculous Radiance - Heals nearby allied characters and members of your squad. The amount healed depends on Barbara's maximum HP.
Glorious Season (Passive Skill) - Ascension 1: Characters' stamina consumption while buffed by Let the Show Begin is reduced by 12%.
Encore (Passive Skill) - Ascension 4: When your active Achievement: Hero gains elemental particles, the duration of the buff is increased by 1 second. The maximum zoom is 5 seconds.
With all my heart (passive skill) - if you perfectly prepare a dish with a restorative effect, there is a 12% chance to get a second of the same dish for free.

Talents

Among the low-level talents, there are some good perks that help Barbara generate elemental energy, however, her last perk is the best. It provides the team with an instant respawn and a full heal every 15 minutes! Too bad there isn't any way to grind it.

Level 1 - Gleeful Songs: Barbara regenerates 1 energy every 10 seconds.
Level 2 - Vitality Burst: Reduces the cooldown of Let the Show Begin by 15%. During the duration of the ability, your current character gains a 15% bonus Hydro Damage.
Level 3 - Star of Tomorrow: Increases the level of Miraculous Radiance by 3. The maximum level of enhancement is 15.
Level 4 - Attentiveness be My Power: Each time you hit an enemy, the heroine restores 1 energy. You can get no more than 5 units of energy at a time.
Level 5 - The Purest Companionship: Increases the level of Miraculous Radiance by 3. The maximum level of improvement is 15.
Level 6 - In Dedicating Everything to You: When Barbara is not on the battlefield and one of her teammates dies, she automatically revives that character, fully restoring their health. Happens every 15 minutes.

Best builds for Barbara

Barbara is a good healer, so all her builds will be focused on improving her healing abilities and elemental skills.

The best weapon

The choice of weapons ultimately depends on how exactly you intend to use this support character. If you are planning to quickly switch to Barbara, cast her spells, and then return to your DPS (deal damage), then we recommend taking the Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers. But if you want to linger on Barbara a little longer to use a few elemental explosions, then take the Prototype Amber.

The Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers (3-Star Catalyst) - When switching characters, the new active Achievement: Hero gains a 48% bonus to attack power for 10 seconds. This effect can only trigger once every 20 seconds.
Prototype Amber (4-Star Catalyst) - Casting an elemental blast restores 4 to 6 energy every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. In addition, all party members will regenerate 4 to 6 percent of their health every 2 seconds during this amount of time. Weapons can be crafted.

Best Artifacts

If you are going to use the Prototype Amber catalyst, then we highly recommend equipping Barbara with four artifacts from the set "The Exile" (4-star), with which you can quickly restore energy. In the absence of a complete set, you can supplement it with items from the set "Scientist" (3-star) Increases energy regeneration rate.

When using the Epic of Dragonslayers or the Wishes to improve the healing abilities of the heroine, we advise you to collect a set "Maiden Beloved" (4-star) that can increase a character's healing by 15% (2 items) and increase the healing received by all team members by 20% for 10 seconds after using an elemental explosion or elemental skill (4 items).

The first two can be obtained by completing certain world quests and murder elite bosses, and the last one drops out during the passage of the 6th and 7th chapters of the Book of Adventures. If not the best option of the “young maiden” fell out, then you can try to knock it out in Dungeon "Valley of Remembrance" .

Combinations with other characters

As a top-tier Traveling Doctor, Barbara fits in with just about any team! Just grab two DPS and one support character and you'll be up to any challenge.

First team:

Main DPC: Diluc
Minor DPC: Keqing
Traveling Doctor: Barbara
Support: Venti

Second command:

Primary DPC: Keqing
Minor DPC: Fischl
Traveling Doctor: Barbara
Support: Zhongli

A budget option:

Main DPC: Xiangling
Minor DPC: Kaeya
Traveling Doctor: Barbara
Support: Noelle or Traveler (Anemo)

Barbara's leveling

How to improve skills

To do this, you will need the following resources:

Scrolls of Divine Magic, Seal, and Forbidden Curse - Drop from Shamachurls and crafted using Alchemy.
Teachings, instructions and philosophies about "Freedom", which can be obtained on Mondays and Thursdays in Dungeon "Forsaken Rift" .
Ring of Boreas - Dropped by the elite boss Lupus Borealis.

Elevation

You will need several unique items to level up Barbara.

First Ascension (Level 20) – 1 Varunada Lazurite Sliver, 3 Philanemo Mushrooms, 3 Scrolls of Divine Magic
Second Ascension (Level 40) – 3 Varunada Lapis Lazuli Fragments, 2 Cleansing Hearts, 10 Philanemo Mushrooms, 15 Scrolls of Divine Magic
Ascension 3 (Level 50) – 6 Varunada Lapis Lazuli Fragments, 4 Cleansing Hearts, 20 Philanemo Mushrooms, 12 Seal Scrolls
Fourth Ascension (level 60) - 3 pieces of Varunada lapis lazuli, 8 cleansing hearts, 30 filanemo mushrooms, 18 scrolls of seal
Fifth Ascension (level 70) - 6 pieces of Varunada lapis lazuli, 12 cleansing hearts, 45 filanemo mushrooms, 12 scrolls of forbidden curse
Ascension 6 (Level 80) – 6 Varunada Gem Lapis Lazuli, 20 Cleansing Hearts, 60 Philanemo Mushrooms, 24 Forbidden Curse Scrolls

You can get Varunad's Lapis Lazuli and Cleansing Hearts from the Elite Boss Oceanid. Lapis Lazuli also drops from ancient geovishap and Dvalina. The Philanemo Mushroom is a local curiosity of Mondstadt. IN separate guide indicated its exact location.