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Barbara

Barbara

Shining Idol

  • Hydro
  • Catalyst
  • 4★
  • Mondstadt
  • Ascension stat: HP%

Every citizen of Mondstadt adores Barbara. She learned the word "idol" from a magazine.

What it costs to finish this character

1,350
resin, level 1 → 90 and all three talents to 10
2,072,500
mora
8
days at a minimum, if you spend nothing else

Ascension alone: 760 resin (boss drops only) · talents alone: 590 resin.

Talent domain: Freedom, open Monday, Thursday, Sunday.

A Crown of Insight is needed for the tenth level of each talent, and crowns are not farmable at any resin price — they come from events.

Materials and mora above are exact, straight from the game’s own tables. The resin figure and the day count divide by an average drop per run, which the game does not publish — they are a community-measured mean, not a promise.

Materials

Ascension, level 1 to 90
MaterialTotal
Varunada Lazurite Gemstone6
Cleansing Heart46
Varunada Lazurite Chunk9
Forbidden Curse Scroll36
Varunada Lazurite Fragment9
Sealed Scroll30
Varunada Lazurite Sliver1
Philanemo Mushroom168
Divining Scroll18
Mora420,000
One talent, level 1 to 10
MaterialTotal
Ring of Boreas6
Crown of Insight1
Philosophies of Freedom38
Forbidden Curse Scroll31
Guide to Freedom21
Sealed Scroll22
Teachings of Freedom3
Divining Scroll6
Mora1,652,500

The talent table is for one ability. Levelling all three costs three times as much.

Talents

Whisper of Water

Normal Attack

Performs up to 4 water splash attacks that deal Hydro DMG.

Charged Attack

Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to deal AoE Hydro DMG after a short casting time.

Plunging Attack

Gathering the might of Hydro, Barbara plunges towards the ground from mid-air, damaging all opponents in her path. Deals AoE Hydro DMG upon impact with the ground.

Whisper of Water scaling, level 1 to 10
Level12345678910
1-Hit DMG37.8%40.7%43.5%47.3%50.1%53.0%56.8%60.5%64.3%68.1%
2-Hit DMG35.5%38.2%40.8%44.4%47.1%49.7%53.3%56.8%60.4%63.9%
3-Hit DMG41.0%44.1%47.2%51.3%54.4%57.5%61.6%65.7%69.8%73.9%
4-Hit DMG55.2%59.3%63.5%69.0%73.1%77.3%82.8%88.3%93.8%99.4%
Charged Attack DMG166.24%178.71%191.18%207.80%220.27%232.74%249.36%265.98%282.61%299.23%
Charged Attack Stamina Cost50.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.0
Plunge DMG56.8%61.5%66.1%72.7%77.3%82.6%89.9%97.1%104.4%112.3%
Low/High Plunge DMG113.63%/141.93%122.88%/153.49%132.13%/165.04%145.35%/181.54%154.59%/193.10%165.17%/206.30%179.70%/224.45%194.23%/242.61%208.77%/260.76%224.62%/280.57%

Let the Show Begin♪

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

Melody Loop

·On hit, Barbara's Normal Attacks heal your own party members and nearby teammates for a certain amount of HP, which scales with Barbara's Max HP.

·On hit, Barbara's Charged Attack generates 4 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's music is the magic that heals her companions.

Let the Show Begin♪ scaling, level 1 to 10
Level12345678910
HP Regeneration Per Hit0.75% Max HP+720.81% Max HP+790.86% Max HP+870.94% Max HP+960.99% Max HP+1051.05% Max HP+1141.13% Max HP+1251.20% Max HP+1351.27% Max HP+1471.35% Max HP+159
Continuous Regeneration4.00% Max HP+3854.30% Max HP+4244.60% Max HP+4655.00% Max HP+5105.30% Max HP+5595.60% Max HP+6106.00% Max HP+6646.40% Max HP+7226.80% Max HP+7837.20% Max HP+847
Droplet DMG58.40%62.78%67.16%73.00%77.38%81.76%87.60%93.44%99.28%105.12%
Duration15.0s15.0s15.0s15.0s15.0s15.0s15.0s15.0s15.0s15.0s
CD32.0s32.0s32.0s32.0s32.0s32.0s32.0s32.0s32.0s32.0s

Shining Miracle♪

Heals your own party members and nearby teammates for a large amount of HP that scales with Barbara's Max HP.

Barbara's desire to heal strengthens her will to fight and sing.

Shining Miracle♪ scaling, level 1 to 10
Level12345678910
Regeneration17.6% Max HP+169418.9% Max HP+186420.2% Max HP+204722.0% Max HP+224523.3% Max HP+245724.6% Max HP+268326.4% Max HP+292328.2% Max HP+317729.9% Max HP+344531.7% Max HP+3728
CD20.0s20.0s20.0s20.0s20.0s20.0s20.0s20.0s20.0s20.0s
Energy Cost80808080808080808080

Constellations

  1. C1 · Gleeful Songs

    Barbara regenerates 1 Energy every 10s.

  2. C2 · 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.

  3. C3 · Star of Tomorrow

    Increases the Level of Shining Miracle♪ by 3.

    Maximum upgrade level is 15.

  4. C4 · Attentiveness Be My Power

    Every opponent 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.

  5. C5 · The Purest Companionship

    Increases the Level of Let the Show Begin♪ by 3.

    Maximum upgrade level is 15.

  6. C6 · 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.

    ·Fully restores the revived character's HP to 100%.

    This effect can only occur once every 15 mins.

Weapons and artifacts

UNSURE This is not a tier list and not community guidance — this product has neither. It is a mechanical shortlist, and the rule is printed so you can check it: Catalysts of 4★ and above whose secondary stat is one this character’s ascension stat scales with, ordered by base attack at level 90. Weapon passives are not weighed, because a passive is an effect and not a number.

Weapons of the right type and stat
WeaponRarityBase ATK at 90Secondary stat
Tulaytullah's Remembrance5★674CRIT DMG
Cashflow Supervision5★674CRIT Rate
Vivid Notions5★674CRIT DMG
Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds5★608CRIT Rate
Jadefall's Splendor5★608HP%
Everlasting Moonglow5★608HP%
Kagura's Verity5★608CRIT DMG
Tome of the Eternal Flow5★542CRIT DMG
Sets whose two-piece bonus raises this character’s Hydro damage or the stat they ascend into
SetTwo-pieceFour-piece
Heart of DepthHydro DMG Bonus +15%After using Elemental Skill, increases Normal Attack and Charged Attack DMG by 30% for 15s.
Tenacity of the MillelithHP +20%When an Elemental Skill hits an opponent, the ATK of all nearby party members is increased by 20% and their Shield Strength is increased by 30% for 3s. This effect can be triggered once every 0.5s. This effect can still be triggered even when the character who is using this artifact set is not on the field.
Nymph's DreamHydro DMG Bonus +15%After Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attacks, Elemental Skills, and Elemental Bursts hit opponents, 1 stack of Mirrored Nymph will be triggered, lasting 8s. When under the effect of 1, 2, or 3 or more Mirrored Nymph stacks, ATK will be increased by 7%/16%/25%, and Hydro DMG Bonus will be increased by 4%/9%/15%. Mirrored Nymph stacks created by Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attacks, Elemental Skills, and Elemental Bursts exist independently.
Vourukasha's GlowHP +20%Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst DMG will be increased by 10%. After the equipping character takes DMG, the aforementioned DMG Bonus is increased by 80% for 5s. This effect increase can have 5 stacks. The duration of each stack is counted independently. These effects can be triggered even when the equipping character is not on the field.

To turn this into a real recommendation section, add a build dataset — per character, the weapons and sets a community source actually recommends, with the rotation each assumes. Nothing in the game’s published data contains that judgement, and a ranking invented here would be indistinguishable from a researched one, which is why there is not one.

Teams

To build a team section, add team data. Which characters go together is judgement about rotations, energy and shielding that this product does not receive and will not guess at.

What is published is the reaction chart. Hydro takes part in: