Barriss

Barriss has a very low damage. Even if your basic skill level is 8. The critics do not pass it 2,5k. But in my opinion, this is intentional. Barriss has the potential to provide sustainability for the whole team, especially if she is the leader. His healing skill is the best in the game, not to mention that she is absurdly tough.

But the truth is: This skill package is great for GW, which is a game mode that depends on sustainability. In the arena it does not work. The battle in arena lasts just a few minutes and the first/second rounds are crucial for victory. The fights simply do not last long enough so that a healer can make a difference. It is precisely why little by little healers were disappearing from the arena. On my server, there is only one team that uses Luminara as a leader because it is a team with 5 Jedis.

I had a recent experience fighting against this Jedi team that used Barriss. 37k power: Luminara (L), Yoda, Barriss, QGJ and Aayla. I destroyed them like a wrecking ball. Had 2 healers, so what? They died the same way.

In my view, the game has heroes who shine in the right places, not everywhere.

So would it be fair to say that no amount of mods would help her offense?

Bariss is indeed handy and in a squad full of 4 other tanky ppl...Ani, Aayla, Kit, Ima...her heals on basic and on counter and her actual heal would b great but, here's the problem. If 1 of your players is being targeted, she's a life-saver. In an aoe meta...what we have now, she brings very little to the table.

I feel like it's the opposite. In an AOE meta (still not sure it's an AOE meta, https://swgoh.gg/meta-report/#all) your whole team gets smacked around through the first wave. So in my point, her equalize, plus an additional 15% goes back to each, basically erasing the second and more dangerous AOE wave from your opponent. Then, if omega'd, you can top off with defense up for 2 turns on everyone as well.

She hits soft, yes. So you're wasting a slot for someone who can do more damage but ultimately she would save your DPS whether she was cannon-fodder, or non-target, she either takes the hits like a tank or heals whoever did take those hits.

So my theory, is that if you maxed out Barriss, Omega her basic for 15% damage increase, and omega her heal for defense up, then pile her with offense mods with speed and/or health secondaries, she's viable all over again.

Doing some numbers, she still has one of the highest baseline healthpools out of all characters. Base is 24K with no mods. If she still has a protection line, her HP could equalize out a double-Lando salute, and an Anakin high-school shove. Almost as if they never happened. Now if she's modded to hit 34-36K HP, even better. The more I think about it, this may be key for those struggling with GW.

Again, I'm just bouncing around ideas here. This thread is meant for slight debates, off the wall ideas, or hate. It's all the same when figuring something out.

I used to struggle with GW, now I auto it...the entire thing...and it's due to Bariss.

My team:

Bariss (L) 6 health mods with as many health primary/secondary u can and omega lead.
Lumi same mods
Aayla
Ani
QGJ

Bariss lead gives each jedi a 3,600 passive heal at the start of each of their turns. Her basic heals everyone 45% of the time for 2,700. Lumi backs her up just fine and under Bariss lead and all the health I have on Lumi, the whole team is downright tanky and with offense up from Ani or QGJ, 4 of the 5 hit quite hard.

It used to frustrate the heck out of me that QGJ / Aayla would call Bariss to assist 90% of the time. Now, I use it to my advantage since she heals everyone for so much more on her basic since I modded her properly.

After struggling for so long, it's so nice to just hit the auto button 12x while enjoying a smoke and a cup of coffee. I just don't see her viable in the current state of Arena.

Noone is "a must", but some characters and synergies can definitely sway the balance. The true test of an arena team or GW team is how does it behave on auto. I have a decent roster, a couple p2p toons, never been able to come close to auto'ing GW in its entirety without my afore-mentioned set-up. Everyone plays their part but Bariss is the key.

She just stands around waiting on a chance to heal someone. Doesn't really do anything. If used as leader, she gets a ton of passive healing. But even then, I'm not sure she brings enough to the table for an arena team.

Pretty much ditto what everyone says on here. She's gotten me through GW everyday as my leader (up until the last battle where I bring the big guns). I've thought about bringing her on in a tank formation for arena but I have too much fun with my attackers to try a slow low damage tank team. It's just boring but probably a good defense.

Has anyone attempted to put offense mods on her though? If her basic could potentially pull off a 5K-6K per hit, wouldn't that be as effective as anyone else for that position?

"K_G0sling;655452" wrote:
Has anyone attempted to put offense mods on her though? If her basic could potentially pull off a 5K-6K per hit, wouldn't that be as effective as anyone else for that position?

I doubt it. The main feature of Barriss is the sustainability of the team, so it benefits more health mods. If you change it for offense, it will have a less efficient cure and its damage will still be mediocre.