There are many characters available in Genshin Impact, and each one of them belongs to one of the elements and plays a specific role within your team composition. Out of all the characters present in the game, Barbara stands out from the rest. Therefore, you must know all her strengths, weaknesses, and best gaming strategy.
Barbara
One of the most important things that you must understand about Barbara is that her primary role in Genshin Impact is to be a “support” character and heal your team from damage inflicted by battles.
Abilities and Elements
She has a standard attack called “Whisper of Water,” which is decent and water-based. Thus, it can be useful to freeze, and thunder applies to an enemy. The two most essential skills are her average heal ability, which allows you to do things in battle. First, you can either apply it to yourself and create an aura around your character or apply it to your enemies to wet them.
You can also change to another character whenever the mentioned aura disappears, and the newly selected character will keep that aura while also heal passively over time. Thus, it has two functions, to heal yourself and/or a team member or apply a “wetting” effect to your enemies. Remember that you can use the heal on Barbara herself, and afterward, her regular and charged attacks are also going to heal party members that are currently damaged.
Thus, this skill is handy when your other team members are low in HP, and you do not want to risk apply the healing aura to them and still use them in combat.
Take into consideration that Barbara’s healing abilities can stack up with her maximum hit points. However, it does not stack up with her damage. This is important to know because whenever you are going to check out her abilities, they will briefly explain that they stack with their skills, attack, or HP. Additionally, they will give you the exact values. This also applies to her Ultimate skill, which heals the full party for a considerable amount.
Gear and Equipment
When equipping Barbara, your main goal is to equip her with Artifacts that focus on increasing her maximum HP, like the Adventurer 2-set piece bonus. Additionally, when you upgrade your Artifacts, the most critical Artifacts to enhance to reach more challenging content and rely on the healing are the Flower Artifacts.
The Flower Artifacts are the best accessories for her because they increase your maximum hit points. Therefore, increasing Barbara with your best Flower in your inventory is going to increase your healing capability.
For example, if you use Barbara’s “E” skill, it will give you a 262 per click, which is a decent amount for her level. Then, when you switch to a different character, they will also receive this healing bonus. If you attack and inflict damage to enemies while having the aura on Barbara, you can also heal your team members.
Another item you could be running on Barbara is the Curative set piece (includes the Traveling Doctor’s Handkerchief). When equipping this gear, it increases the incoming healing by 20%, while the 4-set piece bestows your character the ability to restore 20% of your HP when you do an Elemental Burst.
You are also able to use a mix of these sets. You can use half of the Curative piece set and half of the Adventurer piece set so you can receive a good boost for your maximum hit points.
Regarding other pieces of equipment, increasing your maximum HP is still your main priority. Still, you can also search for equipment or gear that provides a healing bonus increase or benefit. Other types of gears have multiple benefits, so you should use those that have healing benefits or increase your maximum HP.
Combat and Gameplay
As said previously, you can inflict damage to your opponents and heal your party members at the same time when you have an aura applied on Barbara. If you use her charged attacks, the damage and healing can be twice or four times the average amount. Thus, it is a great way to reduce your enemies’ HP and heal your injured team members.
If your team members are deficient on HP, you can switch to Barbara, apply her Ultimate skill, and restore most of your characters’ HP. It is advantageous in situations where your enemy is dwelling your team down, or one of your characters is about to be slain.
Additionally, you can use her aura and then switch to another character to heal it over time. However, it reduces his Stamina consumption as well.
