Her E only prpcs 3 times with a 30 second CD, 1 time resurrection, and the fact her E causes you the wet status meaning.. you are fucked by things like freezing, electro, vape, etc. She's more of a hindrance than a helmet in the end and nothing will change that. Sayu, yaoyao, kuki, qiqi are better healers and the best one is the true healing goddess kokomi. The other great healer being baizhu coming in 3.6. So no, Barbara doesn't have much use if at all.
It's less about having contempt, and more of having better options. Not to mention her healing is barely enough for Abyss (this is where you minmax anyway) if you play her purely off-field. Still, she's okay in what she does and is a decent Hydro option if you don't have Kokomi.
It's because the early abyss on release were cryo field, everyone gets frozen when they used her, and then everyone condemned her for the rest of the game.
Barbara the unsung idol. As a caual-ish player, she allowed me to confortably 33* the last few abyss, on-fielding her in hyperbloom, and laughing at the face of the 12-2-1 birbs...
I know it’s not a fancy new team but I use Barbara in my Ayaka freeze team as a hydro applicator. It works well because it heals me, frees up xingqiu for other teams, and provides hydro application that follows the character. Highly recommend! Edit: Forgot to mention that the one downside to Barb is being frozen easily, but in a freeze team I’m not going up against cryo anyways so it works
Barbara was my first character wish (before Noelle) and she was a lifesaver in the pre-artifact-farming World Levels. Those elemental reactions carried me!
Barbara is the gigachad of healing. She's such a healing powerhouse, her E does the same as Kokomi's burst, except it's actually an upgraded version! I can totally believe the theory that Barbara was supposed to be a 5*, but Mihoyo realised they needed a starting 4* healer. The fact that she's the only 4* with a burst animation Is more convincing proof.
she has a burst animation to let the player know the burst was activated. If it has no animation you wouldn't know without clues like HP or energy meters
Her practical cooldown on healing is around 5 seconds, and you don't have to stand next to a jellyfish to benefit from it in co-op. Everyone loves Barbara in random co-op.
@@LibraritheWizardOfficial Im usually the co-op Barbara, and yes, everyone loves me for it (especially when I surprise them with my DMG). For a solid year, barbs was my only hydro. I ended building her in an old school DPS nuke charge atk build (20k to 60k on charge atk with R5 Widsith). Her healing is enough (for me) that I can focus her build on atk. She was the first charcater to wear a crown 👑. I watching this video now, thinking about changing her build to more dendro/EM, but Barbs has always had a top spot on most of my teams. The only character that has been able to give her a run for her money, surprisingly, is Yao Yao. Yao Yao can heal, she does off-field DMG and dendro application, and with the craftsble sumeru spear, she also provides atk boost. Yao Yao makes a great Barbara replacement in my Heizou soup team (Heizou/Barbara or Yao Yao/Raiden/Thoma). It will usually come down to which element I need more, or if I need some mid-to-long range atk power, which Barbara can provide better than Yao Yao
@@shenvega6688 I have her triple crowned, but that potential is usually wasted with Clam set. It's really hard for anyone to die with me on healing duty, though. This week, I was doing random Apep rounds for fun, and I don't even bother dodging anything expect the big nuke. Sunfire is pretty fun with Barbs, but I have to swap out artifact sets on Barbara, Jean, and Bennett to do it. Just not worth the trouble without a better artifact equipping system 😔
Very nice video! Very rare to see full guides, especially updated ones, on Barbara. I did miss the vaporize build tho, it would've been nice to have seen it mentioned in the video as well. Also, you can't just drop the guide saying you're a triple crown Barbara main and not share some abyss runs!
Figured it was time for a Barbara video! Also, my Barbara abyss runs are totally carried by Nilou, as you can probably see in a few clips. I’m addicted to using 4-Flower of Paradise Lost on Barbara haha.
@@Meowreii I, too, am using Flower set on Barbara, and I'm surprised no guides are pushing it over Gilded Dreams on Nilou bloom teams. Nothing more satisfying than 30k flower bombs evaporating everything on the screen. My second Dendro character changes a lot, but I'm thinking Baizhu will get the permanent slot when he's out.
@@claretclarinets it’s because of resin efficiency. You’d rather get more deepwood which is essential compared to the desert pavilion set which is not worth it if you don’t have an anemo DPS. The difference was also marginal (5-10%) that it wasn’t worth switching over entirely. I’m glad you can still get some of it doing abyss though xD
I decided to let Kokomi rest after not giving her a break since she got released and decided to go back with Barbara for a while. Very shocked at how good she is in Hyperbloom teams and also mono hydro teams !
Barbs is my favourite character. I’m glad that the clams set has given her an opportunity to shine. Hopefully, she will heal and carry along for a very long time ❤
Well made video, easy to digest. I love the small details such as colors on the text, it really helps emphasize the point. The effort put into this paid off well
Barbara is actually really good . She’s an amazing healer , great for elemental reactions and with Kokomi’s set she can do good physical dmg . (Plus she’s the only 4 star in the game with a burst animation)
I got Nilou on my early game alt account and this was exactly what I'm looking for. With Kaveh's release next patch, Barbara will get another new teammate to go with! I am excited.
And Kaveh is exactly the reason why I am in doubt as for who is the best pick for the on-fielder in a Nilou/Barbara/Kaveh/DMC team. Kaveh is an on-fielder, and Barbara needs the on-field time, too.
Excellent guide! I am a fellow triple-crowned Barbara enjoyer. The one thing the guide is missing, though, is vape DPS Barbara. 4pc Wanderers (or combinations of 2-pieces for EM, hydro DMG% and to a lesser extent ATK%) with ATK/Hydro/Crit or EM/Hydro/Crit on a team with Bennett, a shielder (or Dehya since the point of the shielder is interrupt resistance) and a fast off-field pyro applicator (typically Xiangling, but can also be Jean thanks to sunfire, Kazuha, or Venti provided you're against enemies that Venti can pull in). For weapons, the Widsith is the best F2P-friendly option, especially if you have high refinements on it. The idea is to stand in Bennett's circle and use her charged attack to vaporise against enemies that have been applied with pyro. It's quite similar to melt Ganyu actually, except that it doesn't work with burning. Make sure to dash as little as possible, since you want to conserve your stamina for Barbara's expensive charged attacks (which is why having interruption resistance through either Dehya or a shield is so important). Unlike the other teams, this one relies on a very high-investment Barbara, but it's so fun and satisfying that it's worth it IMO.
I thought about Vape Barbara when planning this video but decided against it even though it actually does work. I triple crowned Barbara way back for vaporize, but as time passed I found myself getting annoyed with the stamina restrictions. Fun build for sure but now with an easier playstyle like Nilou bloom I hardly find myself going back. Also, to keep the video short it’s not mentioned as the video already is long enough without mention of Barbara vaporize haha.
@@Meowreii Fair enough I go back all the time lol. But also switching artifacts is a pain. Nilou bloom is WAY stronger for sure. Like, Nilou/Barbara/Nahida/DendroMC is by far the strongest team on my account. Vape Barbara is strong but far from the strongest (I guess it's the strongest "off-meta" team on my account, at least by what I consider meta or not)
I loved this guide, I used to use Barbara in the early game of Genshin but now I use Kokomi although I really like how you highlighted all the different ways you can use her now with bloom teams and the clam set you did a great job! 👍
ive been looking to make a dps barbara for a while just for fun, so this was a jumpscare and a half to see in my recommended lmao. but seriously this is really helpful, i appreciate seeing the love for barbara, she carries my team
I won't ever try to convince anybody Barbara is better than Kokomi but I've been having tons of fun recently with her in Nilou's bloom team. The sight of barbara emerging from pile of dissolving enemy bodies always makes me laugh. And I didn't even touch her build I used way back in 1.0, except giving her Sacrificial fragments (100% recommended, helps with her horrible E cooldown) meaning she could be made even better if I ever wanted to.
I’m using Barbara since the day I obtained her. Never had a problem with the so called “Frozen issue” since I knew how to dodge and set enemy priorities. I first used Maiden’s Beloved, now I use the Clam Set. She’s partnered with Anemo Lumine, Raiden Shogun, and Diona. Much fun in the abyss.
It's not even a 1.0 issue. It's an entire issue when aoe is a thing and enemies are hitting you or something procs randomly to cause the status in the first place. Not to mention for 30 second CD on her E skill her healing procs 3 times for very little when you can end up with more value using kuki, sayu, qiqi, kokomi or even baizhu who's coming in 3.6
@@nobody-xh6ii Skill issue. Furthermore, the CD is reduced by her C2 and the duration of her skill is extended by her passive, dodging or just using her burst during the remaining 7 seconds makes the downtime meaningless. It actually procs 4 times and the healing is quite massive actually. Especially if you consider her burst and the fact that she also heals with Normal Attacks. The rest is hyperbole as nobody even touched Kuki before Dendro. And she needs a healer or a shielder herself. Sayu is barely even used. Unlike Barbara, Qiqi just heals and has no insta-heal. Kokomi is only valuable for Hydro application, otherwise you’re forced in a single area to heal while Barbara gives you freedom of movement.
@@LuisBrito-ly1ko Kuki doesn’t need another shield or healer, she also commonly used with Xinqiu which provides more defence utilities. Sayu is meh, Jean does her job better. Kokomi can also use ttds, tenacity and has one of the best healing of the game, much better than barbara.
I love my Barbara! I’m still building her but she’s a great help with my team. I get quite sad seeing many people hate on her or streamers swearing her out when pulling on 5* banners like Xlice on the recent banner pull.
Bro u r the best!!! Nahida and Nilou are both getting a re-run banner on the next 3.6 update while I lack Kokomelon and is still waiting for her to have a re-run. This is exactly what i need! A full run down on the team artifacts for the triple hydro nilou bloom!
Barbara is a great 4 Stars Hydro character, I would say she have more supportive utility than most credit for, just don't use her against Cryo-enemies, I have a feeling that once Natlan and Snezhnaya dropping new Cryo-enemies would be very nasty for Barbara mains, but the rest of other elemental obstacles and foes, she would be really good most of the times (I pretty much relies on her with so many stuffs at the recent Sumeru's desert
She's my tank! I'm her backpack. I like to use Shogun's E and then Barbara autos with her own E active. This will deal some damage while I heal my entire team at once *chef's kiss*
Honestly this was a really fun watch as content and not as a guide lmao Also, i heard the attack string for on field hyperbloom barbara is NA3CD? Is that correct?
Barbara has been on my team for a long time. The latest is with Nahida and Raiden, with Barbara as the main trigger as her attack is instant. Very powerful, 60-70k+ dmgs hyperbloom on crit.
amazing guide!! i've always loved barbara, but before dendro i rarely used her bc she just felt too replaceable by stronger units. with sumeru i started trying some burgeon xinyan teams, and of all the many, many comps i tested, i liked her for the hydro slot the most. now she never leaves my party!
As "Nilou + Barbara team" user i would say - Best build for those team it's: 4 Ocean; HP + HP + Healing; substats full EM; EM weapon. Mine have 600 EM wthout any other buff and has enough healing potenical to protect whole team in 12 abyss. Full greedy EM build not worth it because in those team you can't be sure that your barbara would creater all blooms herself but healing is only her task. So you sacrifice a little non stable bloom damage to protect your whole team from enemy and blooms.
Oh, this is very important comment since I am looking to just get to Floor 12 (stuck at Floor 11-3 now). So, 1) Level 90, 2) Sac Fragments 3) Skill/burst talents at level 9, 4) OC HP/HP/HB + EM-> ER as substats, right?
I've been using Barbara as an hybrid of some of your listed builds since before Nahida released! Mine uses the *Ocean-Hued Clam* set with *EM/EM/Healing%* pieces focusing on HP, EM and Crit% substats, and the *Favonius Codex* as the weapon, to generate energy for the team; She is joined with *Fischl* by the hip to proc reactions from her *Thundering Retribution* and *C6 coordinated attacks...* both are at ~500 EM while not losing much in personal damage (be it Oz or Clam), and both go so well with *Nahida* and her *Tri-Karma* procs (800 EM before buffs) that it's not even funny. The last slot is a flex and can be anything from Cryo to Anemo, another Electro (Beidou) or even off-field Pyro from Thoma or the awful Dehya.
I give Barbara a Kokomi's kit. Combined her with the Raiden Shogun, Nahida and Klee. Ocean-Hued Clam Artifact Set + Everlasting Moonglow as a weapon. The combination of having Nahida and Raiden Shotgun's reactions, I can spam Barbara's normal attacks and it's just wipes people out. Not the best combination of characters, but I like having variety on a team. Klee is just there for well, jumpty dumpty spam vs clustered enemies, similar to Raiden also being their as a burst DPS at opportune moments.
even though i have my barbara lvl 90 9/8/8, i never knew how to slot her in my teams with a support build, so i always restricted my little idol girl to overworld duties,dismissing her as a dps loss... this guide helped me understand her better, very clear and simple! she was my only hydro for a LONG time and carried me through all of my pyro regisvine runs, so i'd love to use her more! it's nice to see barbara getting some love, thanks a lot for this video!
My barbara + nahida raiden hyperbloom works pretty well as a budget kokomi, even if i have kokomi, trying to use non meta favourite characters isnt as easy as people said
I adore Babs, and somewhat relevant, as an Ayaka main, , I find Barbara a much better hydro applicator for Ayaka freeze than Kokomi for her Elemental Skill's mobility, combined with Ayaka's alt dash+imbue, you get to CC anything you want for basically free
Wow so refreshing to see guides without reading talents or constelatios and just mentioning all viable options in the same boring format. Will check out other of you videos now but seems I'm a new fan!
Barbara user here As a Nahida Main, barbara being MY ONLY HYDRO unit speaks wonders about her abilities.i've only been playing for 4 months and i can now clear floor12 pretty consistently. Albeit 5/9 stars
As a new player at AR45... I got Barbara at C6. She can be a bloom driver but it's very tricky. She will be on field for hydro application while the dendro guys apply dendro off field. Experimenting on burgeon or hyperbloom. Awaiting Nahida on rerun tho on April, hopefully but Barbara C6 is still great, as they rez anyone who died and doesn't ruin your rotation. Edit: not to mention Barbara has to be arms length near the enemies to apply hydro.
Best Barbara Builds in short(I main her since 2.6): OHC HP/HP/HB - Proto Amber: For Hyperbloom. For Bloom. For Coop Fruit of Fulfillment/Sac Frag EM/EM/EM FoPL: For Bloom, Nilou, Fridge. 4pc HoD/Wanderer: DPS TTDS: Freeze
Thank you, and what is your impression on SacFrags EM/EM/EM Gilded Dreams on Barbara in Nilou teams? I hear this set is very close to FoPL. In the recent guides, I have also heard that a "hybrid" build (combining EM + HB) can work best, but unfortunately I do not remember more details.
@@stribijev Gilded is only like ~5% worse. Miserable difference. Fopl is just minmaxing. I personally have two 4pc triple em fopl holders in my Nilou team.
I actually use Barbara since I got her. she's one of my favorite characters and I love using her I use her most of the time as a DPS and as a sub dps/healer in abyss. she was the first character I crowned and I absulotly do not regret it. I'm hapy to see more people use her now ❤
my barbara have always been in my team throughout abyss floor 12, out of all standard characters she's the one I still use since day one I play to this day, especially after ocean hue sets are released
i didn't pull for any shielder from my day 1 of playing genshin and barbara carried my whole team (regardless of composition) until i got kokomi (after about 7 months of playing). it's primarily because of her that i breezed thru the game without the help of consuming food for healing. i could've gone easily with a zhongli (as most players would have) but i find having all my characters at 100% hp all the time more satifsfying than mitigating damages from enemies. i carried this playstyle at ar 58 because of her.
I'm in too. I don't even want to pull for Zhongli 'cause geo characters don't benefit chain elemental reactions and they get truly powerful with a team focused on geo which costs a lot of money. On the other hand, hydro is much more useful to reactions. Barbara is one of the best healers of the game, even better than Kokomi 'cause her elemental skill heals better than Kokomi's elemental burst and it's more reliable in terms of effectiveness.
I always felt like I wasn't doing enough to contribute to coop domains as a Barbara main except for healing so I started to build a slight dps Barbara 😂 Her charged attacks deal around 12-16k damage and I tripple crowned her so her healing abilities would still be good. She's my fav character ❤️
@@SP-kc3fq I gave her 4 piece Heart of Depth because it increases normal attacks and charged attacks after using her elemental skill. I activate that and start spamming charged attacks. Goblet with hydro damage bonus, headpiece with crit damage and the rest is attack. I gave her the lost prayers weapon and now she's 200:60 crit ratio 😂
Hello. I want you to know that I am a new subscriber 🙋🏽♀️✨🥳 Your video is SO comprehensive and easy to follow, plus thank you for considering low ar and f2p players. Can’t wait to follow it and see how my gameplay changes.
She was my first level 90 character and I always will use her . As vape dps or phys dps or dendro core dps o healing and buffing, I am all for her (I still waiting for her sister to join u.u)
I didn't pull for Kokomi to make her replace my Barbara C6. I pulled for her because I wanted another Barbara in the second part of Abyss. Barbara is better than Kokomi 'cause her healing is more reliable. You don't have to stay in one place to get healed. Her elemental skill heals the entire party while she's a tank. She can buff the DPS, heal the entire party, ressurrect a fallen member with full HP (C6) and if everybody is almost dying, she bursts and make everybody come back for more. Almost impossible to be killed with Barbara in you team, besides she has one of the most essential elements in the game: hydro and her application is great for close combat DPS characters.
Started seriously researching about Barbara, because I have a premonition that I'll end up getting her from c0 to c6 in trying to get both neuvellette and kazuha in their respective banner.
Worth mentioning the new fridge team with barbara, a dendro, an anemo and a ice dmg dealer that can be phisical too like rosaria or kaya Barbara will be exploding the cores while the enemies are frozen and then you dont need much healing and use barabara full em
I remember my first 20 ranks involved her with Yanfei cause she and Noelle were my only healers, I had to stop using her after pulling Jean and finally getting Xiangling from abyss but she’s still fantastic cheap support for bloom or vaporize.
Barbs carried me for so long and I love her goofy personality. Once Kokomi came out though, her usefulness diminished. I still use her for Scaramouche and Puppet Raiden for her C6.
barbara is actually a good unit at endgame ever since dendro was introduced. using the original 8 free units to perfect clear the abyss is a good challenge. barbara ,collei, mc, lisa is a solid team with barabara as the driver. 4pc instructor + r5 favonius is arguable her best build.
Barbara is the only 4 star with a burst animation, making her a semi-5 star or an unofficial 5 star. She heals and applies as much hydro as Kokomi. She carried and Noelle protected me. When I was low AR, I messed around in some domains not knowing what I was doing and played with arfticsts not even understanding what they are and I accidentally made Barbara heal big and and deal big elemental reaction dmg. I struggled to find a healer before kuki and Affer nahida, I could not find a better hydro applicator until after i got alhaitham when I got Xingqui 😊
For her role as a healer, I barely had to invest anything into her to assist me in clearing the abyss... at least the first 8 floors. She was literally level 28 and she proved her worth with solely her healing and water application.
I have a 1.1k EM Barbs (with team buffs) on my Nilou team, with sac frags, two of her skills absolutely WRECK the triple Maguu Kenki on this abyss. Is she the best option? Probably not, but her c6 has come in handy many times for on field Nahida haha.
Funnily enough, I kinda use the last team mentioned here (Barbara, Fischl, Roasria) but with Albedo as my 4th and none of the right artifacts nor weapons listed in the video (also only recently switched Barbara to use Sacrifical Fragments as a weapon); plus each character typically gets some on-field time when I'm playing 😅 But the team does work out well for me and is the one I'm constantly using so I did something right with the build ^-^
What do you think about on field hydro application/healing barbara with off field nahida/raiden hyperbloom , im thinking she will generate enough cores? Flex slot for now not sure but thinking Furina because of barbara massive healing
I usually play Barbara in my Alhaitham team alongside Kuki and either Layla (with a lot of energy recharge to freeze) or Bennett (for the buff as he is not such a good pyro applier), although I do this when my Alhaitham has to receive a lot of damage, this mainly cause my Kuki is built for support, not for healing. This team has seen the most of successes in Slumbering Court level IV. For the record my party is between 60 to 70 as I started playing very recently, but they can defeat level 90 rift hounds on time
@@Meowreii Right now, EM but i like to switch her back and forth. Team feels OP easy mode and As a Barbara lover, i've been testing out ways to make it even more OP. My Layla is also not a pure shielder, she's a hybrid Physical build, so they team feels like a fridge team with bloom and physical dps damage. Not sure, if its optimized perfectly but its fun as hell.
I use Maiden Beloved because all that time I spent getting Viridescent. I'll eventually have to switch because I use Barbara as an on field bloom trigger but since most of the damage is coming from Nahida's EM it's not too much of a problem. I have dendro traveler on the team for an EM buff with dendro resonance and use him for his ult. Right now I don't know who to slot in for the fourth. For now it's Lisa because I want to build her friendship but she's got junk artifacts and is useful only because of Nahida since she can quicken/aggrevate for 13k regardless of her stats and hyperbloom once Barbara sets up enough bloom cores. Thanks Nahida! I don't have Nilou or Cookie. Lisa is fantastic because she's a catalyst. I've also used Klee from time to time and Klee's burgeon "I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS'. I guess I have two options. Keep Barbara as on field DPS and go for Gilded Dreams or Ocean Hued Clam? or use her as a bloom trigger then keep using Lisa and equip Barbara with Noblesse? I had never thought of saving my instructor set. I'm afraid I've consumed them all as fodder but wouldn't Noblesse be better for her as a support dps/bloom trigger setting up cores for hyperbloom? I never use her ult because she heals so much anyway but I can just to trigger Noblesse because why not. I'd never thought of using Ocean Hued Clam.
i'm mainly using barbara clam set as i wait for the cinnamon bun that is kokomi. i use her on-field hydro to make bloom cores too and the yae miko for hyper bloom. i also been working on a vape build for her, she's at 7-6-5 for skills. i do want to make critkomi when she comes back
She is condemned by many players because of the early abyss on release. The cryo field was a nightmare with Barbara's constant wet application. She never recovered.
I’ve been using Barbara as a hydro driver for hyperbloom with Fischl and Nahida to cover Cyno’s downtime. It’s pretty great because I don’t have to give a shit about any of barbara’s stats or damage cuz all the damage is from Fischl’s EM stat
