Barbara is a character in Genshin Impact. Guide includes skills and build, how to get Barbara, best weapon, voice actor, best artifacts, talents, & ascend materials!
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Barbara - Character Ranking

Reroll Tier | B Tier ▶Reroll Tier List |
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Character Tier | A Tier ▶Best Character Tier List |
Character Type
Character Type | HealerSupport |
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Barbara Character Overview & Evaluation
Top-Class Elemental Healer
Barbara is a character that is more or less a healing specialist. Both her Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst provide healign to the group, making her a character you add to your team when you want to play safer and keep healed up!
Useful AoE Charged Attack
Barbara's Charged Attack deals damage in an area and also applies a Hydro debuff to enemies. This is useful for triggering Elemental Reactions without relying on the use of an Elemental Skill!
Barbara - Best Build & Weapon
Hydro Healer
Barbara is one of the best healers in game. This set further increase her HP scaling heals and also provide other support capabilities for Barbara.
Recommended Weapon
Weapon | Details |
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![]() | When switching characters, the new character taking the field has their ATK increased by 24% for 10s. This effect only occurs every 20s. |
Weapon Substitute | |
![]() | Using an Elemental Burst regenerates 4 Energy every 2s for 6s. All party members will regenerate 4% HP every 2s for this duration. |
Recommended Artifacts
Artifact | Details |
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![]() 4-Piece Set | 2-Piece Set Increases Healing done by 15% 4-Piece Set For 10 seconds after casting an Elemental Skill or Burst, Teammates receive +20% additional healing |
Recommended Artifact Stats
Artifact | Main Stat Sub Stat |
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![]() | Flat ATK (Unchangeable) ① HP% ② Energy Recharge ③ HP Flat ④ Elemental Mastery / DEF |
![]() | Flat HP (Unchangeable) ① HP% ② Energy Recharge ③ Elemental Mastery ④ DEF |
![]() | HP% ① CRIT DMG ② CRIT Rate ③ Energy Recharge ④ ATK% |
![]() | HP% ① Flat HP ② Energy Recharge ③ Elemental Mastery ④ DEF |
![]() | Healing Bonus ① HP% ② Flat HP ③ ATK% ④ Energy Recharge |
Barbara - Best Team
Best Party For Barbara
Barbara is a Hydro character that has the ability to heal her whole team in a cinch. She can easily apply Hydro to enemies as a catalyst and create elemental reactions with her team
Premium Team
Combo / Heal | Damage | Damage | Support |
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- Barbara can easily support the heal team with her healing and elemental reactions. She's not meant as a main damage dealer, but as a healer or support. - Keqing will act as the main damage dealer of the team, able to deal enough damage with both her physical and electro attacks. Healing for Barbara will allow her to stay on the field, attacking enemies with no worry - Zhongli will provide additional damage and defense to the overall team. His shield will help the team survive while Barbara's skills are on cooldown - Fischl's Oz can continuously attack enemies and apply Electro to them. Great with Barbara as you can easily spread Electro-charged against enemies. She will also have Electo resonance with Keqing. |
Character | Sub | Details |
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![]() | ![]() | - Ganyu with Barbara will allow you to freeze multiple enemies at a time. Great for setting up a Melt reaction after |
![]() | ![]() | - Klee can easily deal high damage as a main damage dealer and follow up on Barbara and Ganyu by attacking and causing Melt |
![]() | ![]() | - Sucrose can gather enemies on one spot with her Elemental Burst. She's also great for spreading elemental reactions since she can easily apply swirl. |
Free To Play Friendly Party
Heal / Combo | Support | Damage | Damage |
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- Barbara will act as a healer and combo creator in this group. Have her spread Hydro first before going for Frozen with Kaeya then Melt with Xiangling - The Traveler can spread elemental reactions across multiple enemies, great for causing elemental combos easily. - Xiangling can act as the main DPS of the team. Her Pyro skills are essential for causing Melt against enemies - Kaeya is needed to Freeze enemies as both a crowd control and combo set up |
Barbara - Ascension Materials
Materials Needed for Ascension
Lv 20 | Varunada Lazurite Sliver ×1 Philanemo Mushroom ×3 Divining Scroll ×3 |
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Lv 40 | Varunada Lazurite Fragment ×3 Cleansing Heart ×2 Philanemo Mushroom ×10 Divining Scroll ×15 |
Lv 50 | Varunada Lazurite Fragment ×6 Cleansing Heart ×4 Philanemo Mushroom ×20 Sealed Scroll ×12 |
Lv 60 | Varunada Lazurite Chunk x3 Cleansing Heart x8 Philanemo Mushroom x30 Sealed Scroll x18 |
Lv 70 | Varunada Lazurite Chunk x6 Cleansing Heart x12 Philanemo Mushroom x45 Forbidden Curse Scroll x12 |
Lv 80 | Varunada Lazurite Gemstone x6 Cleansing Heart x20 Philanemo Mushroom x 60 Forbidden Curse Scroll x 24 |
Barbara - Talent Materials For Level-Up
Enemy Drops (Samachurls) | Domain Drops (Wed/Sat/Sun) | Big Boss Drops (Lupus Boreas) |
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Barbara - Skills / Talents
Talent | Talent Category | |
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![]() | Normal Attack: Whisper of Water | Normal Attack |
![]() | Let the Show Begin | Elemental Skill |
![]() | Shining Miracle | Elemental Burst |
![]() | Glorious Season | Passive |
![]() | Encore | Passive 2 |
![]() | With My Whole Heart | Passive 3 |
Normal Attack: Whisper of Water
Normal Attack
Perform up to 4 water splash attack that deals Hydro DMG
1 Hit DMG | 37.8% |
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2 Hit DMG | 35.5% |
3 Hit DMG | 41.0% |
4 Hit DMG | 55.2% |
Charged Attack
Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to deal AoE Hydro DMG after a short casting time.
Charged Attack DMG | 166% |
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Charged Attack Stamina Cost | 50.0 |
Plunging 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.
Plunge DMG | 56.8% |
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Low/High Plunge DMG | 114%/142% |
Let the Show Begin
HP Regeneration Per Hit | 0.75% max HP+72 |
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Continuous Regeneration | 4.00% max HP+385 |
Droplet DMG | 58.4% |
Duration | 15.0s |
CD | 32.0s |
Melody's Loop
Barbara's Normal Attacks heal all party members and nearby allied characters for a certain amount of HP, which scales with Barbara's Max HP.
Shining Miracle
Heals friendly forces and all parties for a large amount of HP that scales with Barbara's Max HP.
Regeneration | 17.6% max HP+1,694 |
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CD | 20.0s |
Energy Cost | 80 |
Glorious Season
The Stamina Consumption of characters within Let the Show Begin's Melody Loop is reduced to 12%.
Encore
When a 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.
With My Whole Heart
When a Perfect Cooking is achieved on a dish with restorative effects, there is a 12% chance to obtain double the product.
Barbara - Constellation
Skill | Effect |
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Gleeful Songs 【Unlocked at LB1】 | Barbara regenerates 1 Energy every 10s. |
Vitality Burst 【Unlocked at LB2】 | Decrease the CD of Let the Show Begin by 15%. During the ability's duration, the current character gains 15% Hydro DMG Bonus. |
Star of Tomorrow 【Unlocked at LB3】 | Increases the Level of Shining Miracle by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15. |
Attentiveness by My Power 【Unlocked at LB4】 | 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 【Unlocked at LB5】 | Increases the Level of Let the Show Begin by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15. |
Dedicating Everything to You 【Unlocked at LB6】 | When Barbara is not on the field, and one of her party members falls: ・Automatically revives this character. ・Fully regenerates this characters HP to 100% This effect can only occur once every 15 mins. |
*LB=Limit Breaking, which can be done by acquiring the same character.
Barbara - Voice Actor & Profile
Basic Info & Voice Actor

Rarity | ![]() ★4 | Element | ![]() Hydro |
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Weapon | |||
Catalyst | How To Get | ||
Wish | |||
Voice Actor (EN) | |||
Laura Stahl | |||
Voice Actor (JA) | |||
Akari Kitō | Birthday | ||
July 5 |
Profile
Profile |
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Affiliation: Mondstadt Barbara is the Deaconess of the Church of Favonius, as well as the shining idol of Mondstadt. ”The sight of Barbara makes all my problems disappear." This is quite a common saying among the citizens of Mondstadt. In fact, Barbara can do much more than just put people in a better mood. Her healing powers extend to flesh wounds and other physical ailments. Barbara is known to have access to miraculous healing powers through her Hydro Vision. However, Barbara herself knows that the most miraculous magic of all is hard work. |
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