Daily Questions Megathread (January 11, 2026)

Metawise: Zibai, Columbina, Gorou, Illuga (upcoming 4 star) should make a very good team, needing only two 5 star characters.
Nefer, Lauma. Columbina, Nahida is gonna make the best / one of the best meta team, but it is gonna cost four 5 stars. If you remove Nahida it is still very good, but still gonna cost more than Zibai-Columbina team. If you remove another 5 star from the Nefer team, it doesn't remain better metawise than the Zibai team.
So apart from who you like/enjoy and who you do not, there is also the matter of how much primo/wishes you can afford. As only you know truly what is gonna give you how much happiness, based on these factors / informations hope you are able to make the best decision for yourself.

Columbina's weapon is great, but it really only shines when you're using her onfield, which you won't be doing in a Nefer team. She is just as good with prototype amber imo.

That being said, you don't seem too sold on Zibai right now.

Personally, I'd say pull neither and just save, or see if you end up liking Zibai when her event quest comes later next patch.

As far as I'm aware, in terms of "best team comp" with Columbina, I think it's actually a Flins team. But Nefer, Zibai, and Flins [all using Columbina] are all super close and among the strongest units in the game on Columbina's release, so that doesn't matter much.

goal is 40k hp
and for healing, obviously skill talent
if you can get that, or close to it, without the HP main stat on a circlet, you can try using a healing bonus circlet instead

4k is already very good

Nefer/Lauma/Aino/flex. I'd guess Xingqiu for the flex slot, for some help breaking the Pyro shield. Or you could run hyperbloom with Lauma/Xingqiu/Yelan/Kuki. That's what I did.

whos the other scroll user? if you might use Xilonen in multiple teams, people really just use scroll on her too, regardless
the f2p alternative is the natlan craftable sword

Xilonen generally uses Favonius sword. If you already have a scroll set like on melt teams with Citlali you want her on Instructor.

You can try switching scroll to xilonen and try archaic petra/ noblesse on other scroll holder if you have them

you stick with VV on random teams like IT
but even IT, you could also save some hex teammate specifically to use with Venti if you really want to
so no reason to not get a hex set if youre farming it anyway

If healing alone is the criteria, she already got powercrept too. Kokomi can overheal a lot AND apply a lot of hydro while at it. Qiqi's cryo application isn't even good.

[here's a detailed visual analysis of Columbina ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbina_Mains/s/eeU1xP0uQz)

She's a great healer but sadly that's all. In the current game climate healers need to provide something else to deserve a spot

Who are you talking to?

you want it, yes
not very big priority
but no reason to not do it eventually

The one you are actively using, obviously

If you plan to pull for C2 nilou in the future, get Nilou

pretty great
no point saying f2p when it comes to builds

you can really take your time with all of those
id prioritise reputation exp for a region you pick, cause you got more of that since a while back, so its relatively easier to get compasses

well for team variation, Neuvillette is arguably a really good choice cause you can use him with basically anything. that Xilonen is notable

Columbina though, youd really like either Ineffa or Zibai, or rerun of the other NK characters so far.

Ayaka in Melt really isnt very good. she literally hits too fast to Melt. also both cryo resonance and her preferred Blizzard Strayer artifact set is ruined. you want to keep an eye out for Escoffier rerun

If you like Nod-krai stuff get them, basically the packages are Ineffa + Columbina + Flins, or Lauma + Columbina + Nefer. If you got a lot of pulls pick Ineffa + Columbina and use them with any DPS you like basically, or if not pick Columbina and then later pick Nefer + Lauma after farming a bunch (you will have enough within 1-2 patches with all the backlog content).

Or just skip the Nod-Krai people, pick any new DPS you want and their bundled supports, that's basically the norm now.

Neuv was good, nowadays pretty meh. Pull for pull any new character will give you better value.

Ineffa obviously 

I don't know about subtitles (other than the auto-generated stuff) but my recommendations would be:

[マグロヘッド](https://www.youtube.com/@maguro-head) - He does more casual oriented guides but they're very well made and he's pretty good at explaining stuff clearly without going too in depth.

[シンフォニー](https://www.youtube.com/@%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC) - For more endgame focused min-max stuff and meta. He also does a pretty good guide for every IT rotation.

get ANYTHING. we just gotta destroy dotore with it.

The first option is the comfiest but the last option is probably the strongest considering how perfectly melt synergizes with him but it is not easy to pilot.

Ineffa or Zibai, Columbina isn't that good without the Nod krai 5 stars.
Personally I think Ineffa is the best choice, she is a good team mate with Neuvillette.
Zibai will probably be among the top 3 dps when she releases (C6 4 star probably needed for her to be in the top 3 though but not needed in general).

asking in the wrong place
there is separate reddit for leaks
chance of fontaine chronicled is nonexistant for now

exploration, just clean off everything using guide.

Get the treasure compass and use it while doing quests. Quests usually take you all over the map, so you'll be able to collect most primos from exploration in an organized way, while getting all the rewards from the quests. Also, of course, don't miss your dailies and events.

Based on previews she is going to be Meta sub-dps/support for any Lunar/Nod-Krai teams i.e. Lunar-Charged, Lunar-Bloom, and Lunar-Crystallize. I don't believe she will be that strong outside of those teams but if you're planning on using Nod-Krai characters she is a very strong pick.

If you're feeling lucky you could try to pull for both Columbina and Ineffa next patch, as both can carry most on-field characters due to how strong they are together. If you can only get one Neuvilette is also a strong choice.

For sheer damage increase and increased comfort, Ineffa. Mona isn't enough for Flins so you'd still be using Aino.

You team would look like : Flins Ineffa Aino Sucrose

Er and crit rate (only if using favonius).

If no fav, just er. Nothing else matters

There's only a limited amount and they don't repeat unless you use the wishing feature at the shrine so it's possible you've done them all. There are a few that don't show up on the map like near the crafting table in Natlan or the artifact domain in Nod-Krai.

[This site](https://seelie.me/anecdotes) has a complete list, you can compare it with the book in your gadgets and mark off the ones you've done to see if you have missed any.

you need to finish Liyue aq before you can quickstart NK. and AR28

you can only quickstart most recent area. thats NK now.

you still keep whatever the previous progress was, and can return anytime

Ayaka c2 is nice. nice for mobs but also bigger boss

Gorou Noblesse is useless though

doesnt stack. says it doesnt stack

for Columbina, you really want SMS mainly just for the ER. cause youd rather get more hp% substats than use substats for more ER

Nah, it's garbage. Characters who want Pyro aura have usually better sets.

Apparently so. A 4th slot would be Bennett ie.

her best set is actually deepwood, silken on bina, and instructors on the flex

You're missing substats. By going 2pc+2pc, you can pick the best 4 artifacts from a massive pool of like 4+ different sets (Wanderer's Troupe, GD, SM, NS, FOPL). By restricting yourself to *just* GD, you can't really mix'n'match. It's more likely that you can find more than the 20 EM difference in substats from Flower/Feather (more if need ER Sands or Substats), especially by being able to use one of those as off-piece. This will be the case for vast majority of players. Even more so when you include CR+CD from substats for Lauma's personal DPS from skill ticks and Hold E. You just have WAY more flexibility by having more options.

I have VERY good artifacts:

* My best 2pc+2pc gives 80+80+98 (Flower)+105 (off piece Feather)=363 EM in Bonus+Substats.
* My best 4pc GD gives 180+61 (Flower)+105 (off piece Feather)=346 EM in Bonus+Substats.

So by going 2pc+2pc, I gain 17EM. That will be much higher for most other players. And if I started min-maxing for Lauma's personal DPS as well, it'll be even bigger of a gap.

If I set a target of at least 40CR/80CD and 160 ER,

* 2pc+2pc gives 80+80+98+91=349 EM, 43.5CR/83.4CD and 178.3% ER
* 4pc GD gives 180+54+54=288 EM, 40CR/84.2 CD and 162.1% ER.

Now the gap is 61 EM. I only gave up 14 EM with my 2pc+2pc to gain a BUNCH of Crit and ER substats, but it cost me 58 EM on 4pc GD, making the tradeoff likely not worth. That's the power and flexibility of 2pc+2pc as now I can select my EM mainstats with best CR/CD/ER substats as well instead of being stuck with only what I have from GD.

If I can get a 80+ EM GD Flower that first case will change, but that just hasn't happened for me yet. And like you said, many will use Dendro as last flex slot which makes 4pc GD actively worse.

No, that's right. All else being equal, gilded with two EM stacks is better than 2p2p.

But all else isn't quite equal. 2p2p opens up a bigger pool of pieces than 4p gilded, so you're likely to be able to put together a set of individually better pieces. And 4p gilded is only a single roll of EM ahead of 2p2p.

SM Bina, new set Ineffa
Bina needs the ER more. besides that, there is no difference who on the team holds SM set. but Columbina typically as solo hydro, would need more

We don't exactly know the order in which Nibelung and the Heavenly Principles have arrived in Teyvat. Nibelung was the very first ruler of Teyvat, but Nahida suggests that the HP is actually the First Descender.

As for Nicole, >!it's just that she's keeping herself from geeking out like crazy lmao They don't have the time for her to explain everything and she knows it.!<

People theorize that Nibelung isn't considered a descender until after he goes to abyss and comes back. So even tho he was there before HP he's considered the second descender because of the abyss changing him after HP's arrival.

as long as you use them, it doesn't matter how. the general opinion is to wait until AR45-55 when you can farm 5\* artifacts.

The question is less CAN you use them and more do you NEED to use them. If you are struggling, then using them to catch up by powering up characters or getting a brand new, impactful character lvl'd up ASAP is fine (weapon lvl>Talents>character lvl). But the game gives you enough to keep up without NEEDING to use Fragile if you keep the number of characters you are actively building limited. But if you want to *mostly* build Kinich *slightly* faster and you'll actually use him, that's fine. But I'd just get him up to par and use regular Resin beyond that to finish building him over time.

But if you aren't struggling, then why use Fragile? Fragile will get better returns later at higher AR, esp AR45 when many players like to burn it all getting 5-star artifacts which is a massive power spike. But more often players want to use Fragile Resin prematurely because people feel like using Resin is more of "playing the game", which isn't true. Instead of wasting Resin and TIME farming resources you don't need, you should be doing quests and exploration and other less important progression that will be impactful (teapot, fishing, mining, etc). You are only AR39, you aren't at the point where there's nothing to do so burning Fragile Resin becomes appealing just as something to do.

wait until you can / need strongboxing again.

I found exp bottle the best. It's very fast and actually gets rid of the artifact to free up space.

no.

No, because it's not really damage.

Gaming doesn't do damage to himself. He consumes his HP. Damage and HP consumption both reduce a character's HP, but things that care about damage happening (like the Serpent Spine passive) don't trigger off of HP consumption.

Yes, we'll be getting both.

yes, but, "building pity" seems to almost always lead to an unexpected 5\*. beware.

Yes, it carries over for the character banners.

in before the "eventually" guy... you know we don't know. you can oracle a bit better with: [paimon.moe/banners](http://paimon.moe/banners)

yea, take it easy, you can't do anything wrong like "waste mats" or similar, save the primos and spend the blue wishes.

Your first banner 5\* is a good while away, your first 50/50 chance starts at around 12,000 primos, 80 wishes, the guaranteed one takes another 12k primos.

[https://keqingmains.com/misc/newbie-guide/](https://keqingmains.com/misc/newbie-guide/)

Kaeya is a good DPS, any DPS needs: weapon, character and talent levels.

I have one tip that'll increase damage a lot, and you almost never see it mentioned:

There are 5 slots for artifacts, the only one that's important in early to mid game is the Feather artifact. equip any on your DPS and level it as high as possible. the other slots you can leave empty and put everything you find in the feather artifact. there's up to a 100% damage increase just for that.

1 events.

2. sure, if you want or feel you have to.

3 same as always..

4 big game that's 5 years old, and no. mobile has that option.

5. catch up to what exactly? you should continue where you've left of, if you want to get to the latest archon quests quicker, meaning ignoring most quests, then the adventurers handbook > guide will.. guide you, the upper most quests are the important ones.

Since you've been gone, there has been 2.5 more nations added and ~~59~~ 55 (counted the MW characters) new characters

Sure

As of this moment the routine is spend resin, talk to Katherine, log off until the new patch in a few days. Completing the battle pass tasks are a pretty solid way of having a check list of things to do, but that will be next patch.

Not on pc, maybe one day they will consider removing content that you have already finished like they added on mobile.

Don't do too much. The game is intended to have enough content to keep you engaged every patch. You missed quite a few of those, so there is a ton of content to potentially do. You can burn out easily if you don't pace yourself and try to catch up immediately.

just the nk expansion atm
Dorman port, possibly 6.4?

It's just a Nod-Krai expansion. But given Liben is talking about it, it feels safe to assume it'll be the next area expansion coming, likely around 6.5 or so.

that mostly depends on your available alternatives. I've heard Columbinas isn't great, rather made for on-fielding her.

Columbina:

[https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbina\_Mains/comments/1q0axt5/columbina\_weapons\_const\_er\_arti\_infos/?share\_id=B0jzvNEVwJA-p7jfEgaq8&utm\_name=androidcss](https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbina_Mains/comments/1q0axt5/columbina_weapons_const_er_arti_infos/?share_id=B0jzvNEVwJA-p7jfEgaq8&utm_name=androidcss)


Ineffa:

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Fxxft0E8tUsxPC0A3H7hczvi4DHiJCHkKtUC6Wy-soI/edit?gid=995152937#gid=995152937](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Fxxft0E8tUsxPC0A3H7hczvi4DHiJCHkKtUC6Wy-soI/edit?gid=995152937#gid=995152937)

Probably Ineffa's because her weapon buffs the entire team. 

To unlock the Sacred Sakura tree in Genshin Impact, you need to reach Adventure Rank 30 and complete the quest called "Ritou Escape Plan." Once these conditions are met, you can start offering Electro Sigils to the tree for rewards.

There are plenty of four star characters that you probably got at the beginning that are foundations that you can build on top of. Both accounts currently would have not a lot of exploration, probably with your new account having even less than your old one.

I would slightly recommend the old account, but if you want to start over so you remember more of the story then that is an alternative option.

Not/barely. This team is going to have constant dendro aura --> no/poor lunar charged uptime --> Ineffa doesn't get to do the large majority of her damage.

either, or both work.

both would work with Citlali for example.

[https://keqingmains.com/q/gaming-quickguide/#Teambuilding](https://keqingmains.com/q/gaming-quickguide/#Teambuilding)

IFa for fun, Sucrose for damage. Ifa also heals a tiny bit and he's so useful for the overworld

try the usual first, plug out the router for a minute and restart your device. you can also try your smartphone hotspot, or just wait a day or two.

well, some thoughts, Xianyun & Furina make a good team with Varesa, not Mavuika top of the line, but pretty strong, and maybe even fun.

If you want to play lunar-reactions, Ineffa is recommended before getting Columbina, the latter will also rerun in a few month.

Yep, i'm afraid none of the character you mentionned would really benefit from Columbina, at best you can make your Raiden create Lunar-Charged thunderclouds.

Columbina is mostly a support centered around Lunar reaction, so you'd need other NK chars to make her works, like :

• Lunar-Charged : Columbina / Ineffa / Flins / Sucrose
• Lunar-Bloom : Columbina / Lauma / Nefer / Nahida (Or second Hydro or Hydro/Dendro Healer)
• Lunar-Crystalize : Columbina / Illuga / Zibai / (Second Hydro for more application/L-Crys or a Geo who could benedit greatly from L-Crys like Zhongli/Navia)

Since your roster seems to be mostly Liyue/Inazuma chars, your best bet with current primos resources is to save for Snezhnaya meta or hope for a possible buff for Liyue/Inazuma chars like the recent Hexerei buffs for half of the Mondstadt cast.
Your primos won't survive going for Lunar right now.
Since you have Furina and Yelan you can also aim for Skirk/Escoffier for a very potent Hydro/Cryo team, these two should get a rerun soon.
Hope that help. o7

They should be revealed tomorrow or the day after latest.

Chevreuse without a doubt. She's the main reason you even want to run an overloaded team.

In terms of raw dps, it'll probably be Nefer, Lauma, Columbina, Nahida once the new update drops in a few days. Although with that team at C0, you won't have any sustain aside from triggering Prototype Amber with Columbina and/or Nahida.

I'd try to get some ER subs on the goblet and circlet, but it looks good aside from that.

We should find out tonight iirc.

No matter what 4* are on Columbina/Ineffa banner, building pity is not a good idea. You have no idea when your next 5* will arrive. It can be the first 10 pull. And you will end up with Varesa/Xilonen or their constellation. And your pity will be back at 0.

If you stop now, the supposed building pity achieved nothing so even if the 4* on Columbina/Ineffa banner are not the one you like you will still get few of them while pulling for Columbina/Ineffa.

If you don't stop you might want to do another 4 pulls to build your pity to 40. There's no chance I will get another early 5*, right, right? Oh no it's gold again and I got another copy of Xilonen/Varesa.

So right now I have 50 pulls less, I have no guarantee as not only that I got two 5* quite early I've also won 50:50 two times in a row. What's worse I didn't get single Chevreuse const as there is no guarantee and it can take more wishes that reaching hard pity. Instead I got 5 copies of Gaming.

If you are ok with risking it, losing whatever pity you currently have + the wishes you do and getting Varesa/Xilonen in the process go for it. Just don't complain later.

Columbina would be good in a Lauma team, but the main thing to consider is that unless Lauma is c1, you'd have no sustain if you swapped out Kokomi

Columbina is good as the third character of a lunar team if you have 5-star NK on field dps (Flins, Nefer or Zibai), and OK if you have Ineffa, but she is a lot worse with just Lauma and does not worth it.

no, invest more into chev or hope you get widsith from pulls

The story skip button you're thinking about isn't permanent. It just lets you start something that has pre-existing story requirements.

As a day 1 player, the game is better than it's ever been. I would recommend just taking your time and going through the story in order (Sumeru, Fontaine, Natlan, then Nod Krai).

There have been other event quests over time that have progressed character stories, but stopping when you did just means you missed one that's worth looking up on YouTube (Simulanka. Came out at the end of Sumeru). They have started making important event quests permanent in game recently, so most of what you need to get the story is available to you.

The quality of the Sumeru story is much higher than the Inazuma one. Fontaine is even better, and Natlan is when they started working on making the actual story experience better (less wordy quests. More immersive sections). Nod Krai they have doubled down on that even more. They have come a long way in quality over time (particularly after they started ditching PS4 support).

I would interact with whatever catches your interest. The only thing I would say that you can ignore if you don't care about multiplayer is the new Milliastra Wonderland content. It's independent of any other system in the game and has its own currency. You can ignore it and it won't impact your main gameplay at all. It's just a separate game mode for user created content. If you like that, go for it. Otherwise, you can pretend it doesn't exist.

Some quality of life things that have been added since you played is that you no longer need to actually do commissions to do your daily commissions. As you open chest and do quests you'll build up something called encounter points that you can spend by consuming resin to automatically complete commissions. I haven't done a daily commission since early Natlan.

I'd say you have around 8-10 hours of story to go.

I checked some full archon quest walkthrough videos. From your point to the end of act 4, there are around 90 minutes left. Act 5 and 6 are both around 2.5 hours each. So total around 6.5 hours.

do you have an actual question about the game ​for the questions thread?

Wtf do you mean by spoil? It doesn't spoil anything. Your ''opinion'' is objectively wrong

I didn’t realize I hated you

They have “spoiled” Iansan from some of the first promotional videos for the game. They have “spoiled” the sky being fake in 1.0.

It can be a narrative device. You know the start and the end, but how did you get there?

>If I skip all dialogue,

You can't. It's pretty slow. Just take your time and enjoy the game instead.

I checked some archon quest full walkthrough video. If you do not skip and listen all dialogues, act 2 is more than 3 hours, and half of them is around 90 minutes. Act 3+4 is around 5.5-6 hours and act 5+6 is around 5 hours. I have no idea how much you can save if you skip.

>Is columbina the equivalent of an archon

Yes

>Is there any benefit to getting columbina if i have no nodkrai character?

Yes, she unlocks all Lunar reactions which was previous locked only to certain characters.

Closest thing we have to an archon for Nod-Krai, yes. She'll be a little bit undercooked without any other NK 5-stars to empower Lunar reactions for, though.

Yes, she's the archon equivalent.

She loses most of her value if you don't have a single other Nod-Krai 5 star. If possible, getting Ineffa alongside her would be a wise move.

There are definitely a LOT of writers and different quests may be written by different groups of writers. I remember they have said that the total text in the game have exceed 10 million words last year, and a single writer just cannot handle all of them.

Sucrose would also be a potentially strong option for VV+TTDS+EM share. I was about to say that you should consider Sucrose over Fischl as you could get Fischl in the starglitter shop, but you wouldn't be able to get starglitter. Both have value but it would depend on what teams you would be trying to make without wishing in the future and what characters they might give for free over time.

Zibai if you want to play Zibai. Ineffa otherwise. Don't bother with weapons if it's a mutually exclusive choice vs these powerful characters (and it probably is -- if not now, then later. That's opportunity cost!).

And in general, don't start with Columbina unless you already have other Nod Krai 5\*s.

If you love sword users and freeze teams, then i'd highly suggest investing in Skirk when she reruns. She fits both of those criteria, with bring a sword character who has a freeze team easily being her best comp. To go alongside her, i'd also highly suggest trying to get Escoffier, who is likely to rerun right before or directly with her. She enables freeze teams to be significantly stronger.

Can't go wrong with Ineffa. Paired with Columbina and calcs suggest they'll be the strongest support duo in the game. Stick in basically any other two characters, and it should be enough to reach meta levels of damage.

Lauma + Columbina produces a weaker team than that and runs Columbina as the on-field.

Nefer + Columbina is a strong team, but not as good as Nefer + Lauma, so it's mainly a stepping stone to Nefer + Lauma + Columbina.

Flins + Columbina is similar, a less good version of Flins + Ineffa that's a stepping stone to Flins + Ineffa + Columbina.

Ineffa is an off field sub dps with a shield. She is more flexible and you can use different driver/other main on field dps with Ineffa + Columbina duo and you won't go wrong with her. The issue is that, as a sub dps, this team's raw dps will be worse than a main on field NK dps + Columbina, like Flins/Nefer/Zibai. However, Columbina is considered as the third character in such teams, and Flins wants Ineffa first, Nefer wants Lauma first, and Zibai wants Illuga first. Columbina with Lauma is generally the worst combo.

The only change that happens for Bina is the radius of her skill, which is a lot larger with a second nod-krai character. Every other part of her kit (to my knowledge) is available with just her

She buffs lunar damage, and the best lunar damage dealers are other nod Krai character.

Not directly. Her buffs work solo, extra NK characters just give her bigger skill AoE.

The main reason to want extra NK characters with Bina is that her Lunar reaction buffs are most relevant for characters whose kit already revolves around those reactions. 

Ineffa does a good bit of damage and provides some buffs along with a shield.

Columbina does a good bit of damage and provides some buffs along with hydro application (one of the most reactive elements in the game)

Together they do a good bit of damage, buff each other and the team, provide shielding (and healing if protoamber), give ascendant gleam which can be helpful for some bosses, etc.

Wheelchair was first used to describe Xilo/Chiori where they do off field damage/buff/shred/heal and it’s “enough” to be able to play two other units and still hit dps breakpoints. In this context, the wheelchair is a core that you can plop in and probably still clear. The game has changed since that time, so the term gets used to describe teams where the on field character is only a portion of the team dps instead of a majority. Like Flins being a large portion of the team dps still gets called a wheelchair as Ineffa also does a good bit of damage on his teams. Despite the synergy being obvious and it being a good team instead of a wheelchair (the supports working despite the on fielder). It can be used as a gag term, but loses meaning in context

Ineffa deal good damage and provides shield.
Columbina buffs lunar damage by 47% directly, +33% buff to thundercloud and her personal dps off-field is comparable to Yelan burst (that was previous "wheelchair" - Xilo, Yelan, Furina). In many ways she is exactly like Furina, but buffs "lunar", instead of old Dmg%. She also enables Nod-Krai crit% set for on-fielder, like Furina enables MH for anyone. What makes them both "wheelchair" is total team dps numbers that should clear abyss dps checks, at least for any enemy not immune to LC.
But because of "lunar" she is not universal, and her buffs do very little if there is no Ineffa for off-field - she is only off-field dps with lunar existing currently.

Primos no. Free skin yes.

You'll get the quest rewards, including the skin, but you won't get the event rewards.

yes

i dont thuink you'll benefit from anyone except neuvillete in 6.3 phase 1 and 2. i reccomend you build gaming, hes a secret 5 star and outperforms most of the 5 stars. in short terms just pull for neuvillete becuase of how strong and easy to play he is

If these are your conditions I think you should skip and just safe.

Zibai. unless you got Chiori sig specifically, i guess
Columbina, PA is better for buffing team and energy needs. sig is just personal damage

Spoiler tags are \>! and !<, please use them.

No. Traditional damage buff does not affect any lunar reaction.

No, Dmg% (elemental damage) and any "Lunar" are different damage types.

Aino might be a better choice for the hydro slot than Xingqiu here, particularly if you have her c6. Otherwise Columbina is an upgrade but not essential to this team

4pc Thundering Fury (20% bonus), 4pc Gilded (self EM buff), and any 2pc EM buffs.

Columbina and then also Nefer. Otherwise Ineffa but you prob won't be using her too much with just Lauma.

Pale Flame 4pc

The team will be something like:
Rosaria, Bennett (non-C6)/Iansan, Cryo Flex, Electro Flex