Barusa Review [Final Fantasy Brave Exvius]

Trust Master Rewards – Cowered Courage: Special Ability (Passive) – Increase DEF (30%), Increase earth resistance (30%), Enables use of Primal Instinct

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General Thoughts

Barusa is a 6-Star unit that plays the Tank and Support roles. His stat’s are pretty good for the Tank role and he’s a Gigant which makes sense for both roles he has.

Barusa is set up well for his role in the abilities he has. Two support spells a heal and an LB boost, two damage blocking skills plus the final skill, and the rest are mainly damage dealers based on the Earth element.

Barusa is built to take a hit so letting him use one of his Support moves and eat some damage is a viable strategy. Afterwards, have him lay down one of his Force Field abilities to take care of the appropriate oncoming damage next turn.

Compared to some other 6 star Tanks or Supports, Barusa does lack a little bit of utility. He does have Adventurer’s Guardian which makes all enemies target him really upping his Tank role.

But aside from being able to block damage or pull aggro, he’s very much a run of the mill Tank. Which isn’t a bad thing, especially with his equipment giving him so many armors to choose from.

Verdict: Barusa is a good unit though can be overshadowed by some of the older and better 6-Star Tanks or Supports.

Stats

Maximum Stats Increase

Resistance

Barusa has a 20% resistance to Earth. He is neutral to all other elements and status ailments.

Learned Abilities

Active
Min rarity	Level	Icon	Name	Effect	Hits	MP
4★	16		Battle Boons – Cure Status	Cure all status ailments to caster Increase resistance to all status ailments (100%) for 3 turns to caster	–	20
4★	50		Force Field – Magic	Mitigate magic damage taken (24.8%) for 3 turns to one ally Increase SPR (80%) for 3 turns to one ally	–	25
4★	60		Force Field – Attack	Mitigate physical damage taken (25%) for 3 turns to one ally Increase DEF (80%) for 3 turns to one ally	–	25
5★	5		Encourage	Increase LB fill rate (200%) for 5 turns to caster	–	10
5★	80		Adventurer’s Guardian	Increase chance of being targeted (100%) for 2 turns to caster Mitigate damage taken (20%) for 2 turns to caster	–	20
6★	82		Primeval Howl	Earth physical damage (3x) with DEF scaling to one enemy	7	40
6★	90		Trample	Earth physical damage (1.2x) to all enemies Decrease earth resistance (50%) for 3 turns to all enemies	1	30
6★	100		Protector of Olthea	Chance to protect all allies from physical damage (50%) with damage mitigation (50%) for 3 turns to caster	–	35
Trait
Min rarity	Level	Icon	Name	Effect
4★	3		Gigant	Increase DEF/HP (20%)
4★	30		Dragon Killer	Increase physical damage against dragons (50%)
5★	42		Master of Spheres	Increase DEF/HP (30%) when equipped with a light shield Increase DEF/HP (30%) when equipped with a heavy shield
5★	66		Draw Attacks	Increase chance of being targeted (50%)
6★	10		Trusted Buddy	Increase MP (30%) Increase resistance to paralyze and confuse (100%)
6★	40		Defensive Prowess	Increase DEF (50%) when HP drops below 50% Increase SPR (50%) when HP drops below 50%

Limit Burst

Equipment

Barusa can equip 2 weapons and 7 armor.

Weapons	Armors

Exclusive Equipment

Icon	Name	Type	Effect
	Grasping Sphere	Light Shield	HP+133, DEF+28, SPR+28 Resistance: Earth (+30%) Ability: Carpet Bomb (Barusa only)

Awakening

Lore

One of the heroes from another world blessed by Khalam, the deity worshipped by the people of Olthea. Princess Claire offered asylum to Barusa after he was banished by his people, and thus came to live with her in the palace. However, he was unable to help the princess when she was abducted, causing him to grow ashamed of his own cowardice. It was at that moment that Khalam would bless him.