Reverse 1999 Barbara build guide: Skills, best Psychubes, Insight Materials, and teams

Barbara is the latest 5-star Arcanist who debuted alongside Tuesday in the version 2.1 update. She belongs to the Spirit Afflatus and deals Mental damage with her skills. Her ability includes healing, modifying incantation ranks of allies, generating Moxies, and more. She is one of the most AP-friendly characters, thanks to her Ultimate Skill, Another Jump This Way.

Timekeepers can use her in Mental Damage-focused teams to boost their survival and damage output. This article lists the best Psychubes, teams, and Insight Materials and explains her skills.

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Reverse 1999 Barbara build guide: Skills explanation

Here is a detailed explanation of Barbara’s skills in Reverse 1999:

• Troubled Sheep (Basic Skill 1): She debuffs two enemies by applying one stack of Sacred status. Additionally, she deals damage equal to 160%/240%/400% with one/two/three-star rank cards.
• Chat on the Lawn (Basic Skill 2): She buffs allies by granting them a shield with HP equal to 120%/180%/300% of her attack with one/two/three-star rank cards. The shield remains active for two rounds.
• Another Jump This Way (Ultimate Skill): She buffs herself by entering the Dream Visit status. Additionally, she grants Shield with HP equal to 250% of her attack for three rounds.

Barbara’s status effect explanation

• Dream Visit: She can only cast Ultimate while under this status effect. The skill cards she generates automatically convert into one random card of other allies. Additionally, she gains one Moxie and one precast skill card, Counting Sheep.
• Counting Sheep: Using this incantation won't cost Action Point (AP). It deducts one rank from the incantation in front of it and deducts one from the one behind it before the AP Area resolves.
• Scared: It increases the enemy’s Mental Damage taken by 25% (removes one when triggered).

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Reverse 1999 Barbara build guide: Best Psychubes

Best Psychubes for the 6-star character (Image via Bluepoch)

Below is the list of best Reverse 1999 Psychubes for Barbara:

• Beyond Wonderland: After she uses Troubled Sheep, her healing rate increases by 3% (can stack up to four times). Additionally, the Psychube increases her Critical Rate by 21%.
• The Fighter’s Best Wishes: If her HP is below 80% at the round’s start, she takes 10% increased damage and her attacks deal an additional 15% Genesis Damage.
• That Inquisitive Dear: She restores HP equal to 24% of her attack to an ally with the lowest health. This effect triggers when she uses the Troubled Sheep skill.
• Long Night Talk: Her damage-dealing ability increases by 8% when she has two or more Pos Status buffs. Additionally, her attack increases by 2.5% when she uses the Chat on the Lawn skill (can stack up to five times).

Beyond Wonderland is the best Psychube for Barbara in Reverse 1999. It also increases her Max HP by 16% at level 60 and improves her healing abilities. Timekeepers can use other Psychubes as alternatives to Beyond Wonderland.

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Reverse 1999 Barbara build guide: Insight Materials

The Arcanist's Insight effects (Image via Bluepoch)

Barbara’s Inheritance or Passive Skill is called Germ-Free Bedroom. Timekeepers can use various materials to upgrade the Arcanist's Inheritance’s Insight levels and unlock new effects. Here are the effects of Germ-Free Bedroom at each Insight level and the materials required to upgrade:

Insight I: She grants a 10% Damage Taken Reduction to her allies at the end of each subsequent round if she doesn’t take action in the current round.

Required materials:

• Sharpodonty ✕ 12000
• Page of Plantal Vimen ✕ 3
• Page of Beastly Thirst ✕ 3
• Silver Ore ✕ 5
• Esoteric Bones ✕ 3

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Insight II: She gains 8% Damage Heal while entering the battle.

Required materials:

• Sharpodonty ✕ 30000
• Scroll of Plantal Vimen ✕ 4
• Scroll of Beastly Thirst ✕ 4
• Solidus ✕ 3
• Salted Mandrake ✕ 2

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Insight III: If she is in the Dream Visit status at the round’s start, she restores HP equal to 20% of her max HP to herself. If her HP is above 90%, she restores HP equal to 15% of her max HP to adjacent allies.

Required materials:

• Sharpodonty ✕ 120000
• Tome of Plantal Vimen ✕ 6
• Tome of Beastly Thirst ✕ 6
• Glowing Mothwing ✕ 4
• Fruit of Good and Evil ✕ 2

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Reverse 1999 Barbara build guide: Best teams

Marcus is one of the best teammates for this 6-star Arcanist (Image via Bluepoch)

Barbara takes the role of a support in a Reverse 1999 team. She can make the most out of the Arcanist whose kit’s strength is using high-ranked cards, such as Marcus. Timekeepers can use Plant Afflatus Marcus, Beast Afflatus Melania, Intelligence Afflatus Lucy, and Star Afflatus Windsong.

On the other hand, players can use Plant Afflatus Vila, Star Afflatus Tooth Fairy, or any other fully built Arcanists from their roster for the healer role.