Barris is terrible

Basic: Heal all allies for 4% of Barris' health. Increase damage by 25%

Heal: Add defense up for all allies and health up for Jedi.

Leader: Jedi allies have +20% health, +20% tenacity and recover 10% of their max health when they use a basic attack. Bonus halved for non-jedi.

Unique: At the beginning of each turn, Barris dispell 1 random effect on all Jedi ally. She then gains bonuses based on the number dispelled:
1 - Recover 5% of her health
2 - Gains defense up for 1 turn
3 - Gains a heal-on-time effect
4 - Gains speed up for 2 turns
5 - Gains tenacity up for 2 turns

Healers in any kind of game don't really hit hard. Just think about other rpg games and remember how much a healer hits

Barris was my MVP for GW, and you'll find many past posts from me extolling her virtues.

However, the GW changes, the introduction of protection, and finally the arrival of mods, mean she has been pretty much permanently benched on my squad.

Her healing, with of course the right mod setup, is amazing, but realistically as you climb up the power ladder and start facing at least 3 top "meta" teams, her usefulness and effectiveness diminishes.

I can't speak to her performance in Squad Arena as I don't use her there - nor do I see a use for her in raids. Heck, I think she even stayed on the bench for the Jedi mod challenges!!

I think she's got her uses in early to mid game, but by the time anyone has farmed her up to 7*, she's outgrown her usefulness. She was a great antidote when Darth Sidious was meta (remember that?) and his heal block would be a death knell.

As the game evolves, and new toons are introduced, it's only natural that the older ones will either (a) be mothballed, or (b) get re-worked to stay relevant. As Barriss wasn't really a fan-favourite or prominent character, I strongly suspect she'll just fade into obscurity; she has already faded well into mediocrity.

The real issue is there's almost no need for a healer in any aspect of this game right now, and that's all she can do.

"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.

Yeap. She was Op, being able to heal any char from almost dead to fully healed. They nerfed her to the ground. She definitly need may be faster, but weaker heal or some status effect... =\

they need to look at healers in general, for after protection and mods, they are kinda mehh, only thing Barriss has going for her is equalization of health, but her healing was nerfed beyond ridiculous, and that happened in December where a 5* toon was a rarity to see