Best Barbara Genshin Impact build: Artifacts, weapons, more

❘ Updated: 2023-07-18T15:12:26

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Barbara in Genshin Impact is a great support option when you use a strong build. So here’s what you need to know about creating the best Barbara build in the game, including the Ascension Materials, Artifacts, and weapons you need to use.

Barbara is one of the many free characters available to players in Genshin Impact. As a fighter, she might not be as powerful as other characters, but this Hydro character has excellent healing abilities and can be extremely powerful in the support role during battles.

She can provide her team when game-changing heals in crucial situations, whether you’re ascending the game’s Spiral Abyss or fighting one of the tough endgame bosses.

With the right build, the Hydro Catalyst can slot into the support position in any team comp, so if you’re planning to use her as your main support, here’s everything you need to know about the best Barbara build and artifacts in Genshin Impact.

Contents

Barbara abilities
Barbara constellations
Best Barbara artifacts
Best Barbara weapons
Barbara Talent Level-Up and Ascension materials
Barbara trailer in Genshin Impact
Best Barbara team comp

Barbara with Klee and Noelle in Genshin Impact

Barbara’s abilities are all tailored around healing in Genshin Impact.

Barbara abilities in Genshin Impact

Normal Attack: Whisper of Water

Normal Attack: Barbara performs up to four water splash attacks that deal Hydro DMG to nearby enemies.
Charged Attack: Barbara consumes a certain amount of stamina to deal AoE Hydro damage.
Plunging Attack: While airborne Barbara plunges towards the ground, dealing AoE Hyrdro damage to all nearby enemies upon impact.

Barbara Elemental Skill: Let the Show Begin

Barbara summons water droplets resembling musical notes that form a Melody Loop, dealing Hydro damage to surrounding opponents and applying the Wet status to them.

On hit, Barbara’s Normal Attacks heal your own party members and nearby teammates for a certain amount of HP. Scales with Barbara’s Max HP.
On hit, Barbara’s Charged Attack generates four times the amount of healing.
Periodically regenerates your own active character’s HP.
Applies the Wet status to the character and to opponents who come in contact with them.

Barbara Elemental Burst

Barbara unleashes a large AoE ultimate that heals all party members and nearby teammates for a large amount of HP. The amount of healing scales with her Max HP.

Barbara Constellations

Lucky enough to get multiple copies of Barbara? Then you have some great constellation buffs to look forward to.

Level 1 – Gleeful Songs: Barbara regenerates 1 Energy every 10s.
Level 2 – Vitality Burst: Decreases the CD of Let the Show Begin by 15%. During the ability’s duration, your active character gains a 15% Hydro DMG Bonus.
Level 3 – Star of Tomorrow: Increases the Level of Shining Miracle by three. Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Level 4 – Attentiveness be My Power: Every opponent Barbara hits with her Charged Attack regenerates one energy for her. A maximum of five energy can be regenerated in this manner with one Charged Attack.
Level 5 – The Purest Companionship: Increases the Level of Let the Show Begin♪ by three. Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Level 6 – Dedicating Everything to You: When Barbara is in the party but not on the field, and one of your own party members falls: Automatically revives the fallen character and fully restores the revived character’s HP to 100%.

Best Barbara Artifacts in Genshin Impact

The best Barbara Artifact set increases her healing potential.

The best Barbara build uses the Ocean-Hued Clam Artifact set, which increases the Genshin Impact support’s Healing Bonus by +15%. Meanwhile, the four-piece bonus enhances the Hydro user’s damage. Whenever she heals an allied character, a Sea-Dyed Foam will appear for three seconds, accumulating the amount of HP recovered from healing.

After a brief period, the Sea-Dyed Foam will explode, dealing damage to nearby opponents based on 90% of the accumulated healing. This effect can be triggered even when she isn’t on the field, which makes it particularly useful for those that wish to use the 4-star as traditional support.

If you don’t have the Ocean Hued Clam Artifact set, then you could always utilize the Maiden Beloved build. Two pieces will increase Barbara’s Character Healing Effectiveness by +15%. Four pieces of Maiden Beloved enhance healing received by all party members by 20% for 10s whenever she uses her Elemental Skill is used.

Lastly, we recommend using the 4-piece Gilded Dreams set if you’re wanting to use Barbara on a Bloom team. This will increase her Elemental Mastery and provide buffs to teammates.

Artifact	Set Bonuses
Ocean-Hued Clam	2-piece: Healing Bonus +15%. 4-piece set bonus: When the character equipping this artifact set heals a character in the party, a Sea-Dyed Foam will appear for three seconds, accumulating the amount of HP recovered from healing (including overflow healing). At the end of the duration, the Sea-Dyed Foam will explode, dealing DMG to nearby opponents based on 90% of the accumulated healing.
Maiden Beloved	2-piece set bonus: Character Healing Effectiveness +15%. 4-piece set bonus: Using an Elemental Skill or Burst increases healing received by all party members by 20% for 10s.
Gilded Dreams	2-piece set bonus: Elemental Mastery +80 4-piece set bonus: 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 Barbara weapon in Genshin Impact

Barbara’s best weapon to use in Genshin Impact is the Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers. This three-star Catalyst enables players to buff any allied units when Barbara is switched out of combat. The character replacing her out on the field has their attack increased by 24% for 10s, which occurs once every 20s.

What’s more, this Catalyst is incredibly easy to unlock. For those that wish to capitalize further on the Shining Idol’s life-saving heals, then the Prototype Amber is also a great option.

When equipped, Barbara’s Elemental Burst will regenerate four Energy every two seconds. While this effect only lasts up to six seconds, it can greatly reduce the cooldown of her abilities, which enables you to unleash even more heals.

If that wasn’t enough, all party members will regenerate four percent of their HP every two seconds. So, if you’re struggling to stay alive against particularly tough opponents, then the Prototype Amber is the best Artifact option.

If you’re wanting to place Barbara on a Bloom team, we recommend running her with Sacrifical Fragments. This will give her a chance to end the countdown of her Elemental Skill.

Weapon	Details
Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers	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.
Prototype Amber	Using an Elemental Burst regenerates 4 Energy every 2s for 6s. All party members will regenerate 4% HP every 2s for this duration.
Sacrificial Fragments	After damaging an opponent with an Elemental Skill, the skill has a 40% chance to end its own CD. Can only occur once every 30s.

Barbara Talent Level-Up and Ascension materials

Barbara’s Talent and Ascension materials can be found in Mondstadt, which means every Genshin Impact player will be able to easily farm for them. In order to level up and Ascend Barbara, you’ll need to fight the Hydro Hypostasis – one of the many elemental cubes that can be found across Teyvat.

This boss drops the Varunada Lazurite Fragment and other core components needed to level up the Hydro character. Meanwhile, travelers will also need to farm plenty of Philanemo Mushrooms, Cleansing Hearts, and Forbidden Curse Scrolls.

As Barbara excels as a support, you’ll want to max out her Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst to ensure you’re maximizing her heals. Once these have both been leveled up, then move onto her Normal and Charged attack.

Barbara Talent Level-Up Materials

Talent Level-Up Materials
Talent Level-Up Materials	Teachings of Freedom x9	Guide to Freedom x63	Philosophies of Freedom x114
Common Ascension Materials	Divining Scroll x18	Sealed Scroll x66	Forbidden Curse Scroll x93
Weekly Boss Materials	Ring of Boreas x18

Yae Miko Ascension Materials

Ascension Level	Mora Cost	Materials
1	20,000	Varunada Lazurite Sliver x1	–	Philanemo Mushroom x3	Divining Scroll x3
2	40,000	Varunada Lazurite Fragment x3	Cleansing Heart x2	Philanemo Mushroom x10	Divining Scroll x15
3	60,000	Varunada Lazurite Fragment x6	Cleansing Heart x4	Philanemo Mushroom x20	Sealed Scroll x12
4	80,000	Varunada Lazurite Chunk x3	Cleansing Heart x8	Philanemo Mushroom x30	Sealed Scroll x18
5	100,000	Varunada Lazurite Chunk x6	Cleansing Heart x12	Philanemo Mushroom x45	Forbidden Curse Scroll x12
6	120,000	Varunada Lazurite Gemstone x6	Cleansing Heart x20	Philanemo Mushroom x60	Forbidden Curse Scroll x24

Barbara trailer in Genshin Impact

Barbara’s gameplay has been featured in numerous promotional videos throughout Genshin Impact’s release, showcasing the Idol’s kindhearted personality. During the ‘An Idol’s Healing Magic cinematic’, travelers get to learn about Mondstadt’s popular support. Meanwhile, the Beachside Ballad video revealed her now-released Summertime Sparkle skin.

Best Barbara team comp in Genshin Impact

The best Barbara team comp utilizes a number of meta Genshin Impact characters.

The best Barbara team comp utilizes Eula, Diona, and Bennett. Having two Cryo characters like Eula and Diona will provide a 15% increase to your crit rate against enemies that are Frozen or affected by Cryo.

This buff should constantly be in effect, especially since Barbara will be able to constantly Freeze any grouped enemies thanks to Eula’s Elemental skill. The added Shielding and healing from Diona also ensures that Eula is constantly kept safe from harm’s way.

To make matters even better, damage buffs from Bennett’s Elemental Burst make this comp’s damage even more lethal. When the health of a character within Bennett’s ultimate is higher than 70%, they gain an attack bonus that is based on his base attack.

With two healers in the form of both Barbara and Diona, Eula should be consistently dealing huge amounts of damage. Bennett’s Pyro abilities can also apply the Melt effect, which increases the damage of the attack that triggers the reaction.

Barbara may not exactly be a meta damage dealer in Genshin Impact, but this team comp does highlight her effectiveness.

So there you have it – that’s everything you need to know about creating the best Barbara build in Genshin Impact, including the Artifacts, Weapons and Ascensions Materials you should use.

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