I have Barris at gear 10 7* fully maxed out and I was always hoping that she would get better but she is horrible. Her hits are more like love taps and the healing is okay but after all the mods are implemented she is utterly useless. She needs a serious buff!

Well, I think she's good for what she does. She's not meant to hit hard. She's got a large health pool and can take quite a beating, with a nice heal that heals through heal immunity and has some great Jedi synergy. If you want a healer that can also deal a decent amount of damage, you got for Lumi instead.

True as an early character she has a purpose but when you get to higher levels she doesn't play much of a role.

Barris is much more useful now with the rise of tanks. She was useless in the era of the glass cannon, but that is slowly coming to an end.

"EscapeArtist51;626375" wrote:Barriss sucks and needs a buff. Why're you guys tryna hold back toons from being buffed lol? She's not an early character either and that's still a bad excuse for her being poor. She sucks at damage, she sucks at support, what reason should I use her for in arena? Hell I don't need her for gw either she just slows it down. John Salera said he wanted every toon to be able to be used in the game... or well someone told me that's what he said lmao. I want that too. Barris needs a stun, or a status effect, or another support move. She needs something, cause right now she sucks. https://swgoh.gg/characters/barriss-offee/She really isn't as awful as you're making her out to be. Yes, she's not a top tier character but she's still great if what you want from her is what she caters to. -Her basic attack has a chance to heal allies for 6% of her health. If maxed out, that's 1,472 health regen per attack.-With 24,539 health, 244 armor and 21,148 protection, she's incredibly hard to kill and will stick around.-Her special will heal through heal immunities, and gives her defence up, making it even harder to remove her (also meaning when AI is using her, them trying to heal through healing immunities won't be a problem)-Her leader ability is half decent, especially when running a Jedi team. 20% more health and then healing per turn. If Barris is maxed out, that's 1963 health regen per turn.-Her unique has a chance to dispel negatives off each of her Jedi allies and then gain 9% TM per negative removed. That allows her to dispel negatives and then push out more moves, therefore pushing out more heals and more chances to dispel negatives.Now, if you ask me, she's pretty awesome if that's the sort of stuff you're looking for. Yes, she doesn't hit hard, but she's not there for that.

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tuftedpaper85
9 years ago
"Spyrogaming;626418" wrote:
Theres also bugs with her, her healing dosent always override immunity like its supposed to
The other bug is when she heals (seen this in daka a few times) she loses a chunck of health even if she still has prot bar

@Spyrogaming She doesn't heal through immunity. She equalizes health and then adds a 3k(ish) heal on top of it. If it's just Barris left and she has heal immunity applied you can't use her heal cause it will do nothing (she has no one to equalize health with and the 3kish heal wont heal through immunity). If it's her and two others and the other two are near dead but she has full health and protection, the other two will be brought up to around 70% health and she will be brought down to about 70% health, even though her protection is still full. If one of those two has healing immunity applied, it will heal that toon to around 70% health; however, unlike the other toon this one won't get the 3kish heal on top of the equalization.

Hope this makes sense.
GaidalCain_WOT
9 years ago
I never unlocked her and I don't plan to.

I do fine in GW without her.

I target teams with her in it I arena.

Raids? Maybe good to get around Rancor's heal immunity debuff but aside from that, she does no damage and seems like she would just take up valuable DPS space.

Does her unique ever remove death mark? That might give her some value in P1...
Boba_The_Fetter
9 years ago
Yeah she's pretty useless now. As the game develops they need to develop older characters. Bariss is a prime example of a useless character because of the way the game developed. Sidious is another (useful low level but towards higher levels and high arena is completely useless).
like how can anyone expect a character who's complete focus is healing allies to still be useful after adding something like protection? It dilutes the usefulness of healers so much but since she's the quindicential healer she really gets hit hard.
An automatic x% of protection given to all allies when she hits her basic plus her chance to heal would be something.
MrDeathGrips
9 years ago
"EscapeArtist51;626855" wrote:
"C00L_Story;626853" wrote:
Why all this talk about Arena viability? No one cares about Arena anymore..

Not sure if my sarcasm meter is busted or you're serious. If you're serious lol then what game mode do you have the most fun on :o ? Arena is the only reason I farm any toons.. I don't even have Barriss. Cause she sucks, at everything.

Lol I was gonna say the same thing. If youre not doing arena you dont have crystals for refreshes.

You're super slow at collecting gear, shards, and mods.
SamoBudo
9 years ago
Baris rocks !!! she alone gets me though the G/W with a single team as leader and she is not G10 only G9.
isaiahkyler
9 years ago
Anyone who thinks Barris rocks is not at the level in the games where DPS means win or lose. Barriss definitely needs to be buffed in order to remain a legitimate character.
Nikoms565
9 years ago
"JacenRoe;626482" wrote:
I can't find any reason to use Barris ever. Back in the day she carried me through GW. Now I just load DPS toons with turn meter. The more damage dealers, the better.

Same in arena. You might occasionally see a Lumi due to her insanely powerful heal, ability block, and OK damage. Daka too, but mainly for stun, and Rez. One guy at the top of my shard uses Ewok Elder, but again for Rez, and turn meter boosting. Heal is just an afterthought.

Protection has mostly killed off healers. You may do OK with them on your arena team against **** AI that sprays damage, but your team defending with Barriss is effortlessly getting murdered when they defend. As a class they are dead weight unless they do multiple things. Barriss does only one thing, and is just OK at it.

Reread your 2nd sentence. You just answered (and contradicted) your first.

There is a point in every player's game-life where Barris (and Sid, and Luminaria, etc) are helpful, useful and even necessary. Barris is not a "late game" contributor (at this point). So what? She was useful.
medetec
9 years ago
Defensive leads have been in need of a buff for a long time. Disregarding flat defense leads like chiewie for the moment...

I don't see any reason why you couldn't bring Barriss up around Palpatine's numbers. Changes in bold.

No One Left Behind
Jedi allies gain 32% Max Health, and other allies gain half that amount. In addition, at the end of each of their turns, Jedi allies heal for 8% of Barriss Offee's Max Health and gain 16% turn meter, and other allies gain half that amount.

Swift Recovery
At the end of each of her turns, Barriss has a 100% chance to Dispel one negative status effect from each Jedi ally and gain 20% Turn Meter for each effect removed.
vynnski
9 years ago
Healers are useful in GW, but when Protection was added to the game their usefulness in Arena plummeted.
kartoffelSTAMPF
9 years ago
"Isaiah_THE_Jedi;626590" wrote:
There is no mod out there that can make her work. Even if you gave her a 100% offense boost (which doesn't exist ) she would at best hit for 6k

This would be the obvious worst way to mod barris. Why would anyone want to put offense mods on a char who hits like a noodle?

Seriously, just buffing everyone's offense power in order to achieve balancing is the worst scenario.

I'm with you when it comes to balancing heroes, but not they way you propose it. Buff her support skills:

- increase here chance to heal on her basic attack
- buff her heal by providing defense up to all allies or reduce the cooldown
- increase chance to dispel on her unique and increase TM gain

Or give here something interesting like critical avoidance on her leader skill instead of health buff. Be more creative. Buffing barris to hit harder would be total waste as she will never compete for damage output, never ever, and this would render this kind of buff totally obsolete.