Daily Questions Megathread (January 16, 2026)

Definitely not all of them. Off field Mona does not use them. Fischl and Sucrose prefers other options. Albedo doesn't even scale off Attack.

The average income we get is still mostly the same, but other improvements have been made.

For one, they added a system that basically prevents you from losing too many 50/50s in a row. When calculated over a long number of pulls, it bumps the average rates up to 55/45 in favor of getting the featured character. They also improved the weapon banner to allow you to guarantee one of the weapons of your choosing within 2 5 star pulls.

The MC has definitely improved a good bit, mainly with the most recent story arc. They have significantly more voicelines, and aren't tied to the hip with Paimon as egregiously as before. They even finally got a new outfit.

> And is it true that mc got a vocal cord and finally speaking for herself?

MC started speaking from like Fontaine with the inner thoughts, and in the latest AQ in Nod Krai MC has more voiced lines than Paimon.

>Like is it generous?

You get the usual 50-80 rolls per patch for F2P depending the patch but they also did some banner changes like the comment described and do more things like character/constellation selector for older/outdated characters.

about the same. skyward inches out at 1%.

>First off, is Skirk useful even with low ressources? I love the character design but I also would like a strong DPS to carry throughout the whole game and not just late game.

As long as you follow her teambuilding rules [cryo and hydro only], she'll be pretty strong even without her full premium team. More than enough to carry you through the game.

>Secondly, should I pull on Columbina? This character is pretty cool but given on how scarce wishes can be I’d much rather invest in a strong support for Skirk that has some synergy with it.

Wishes aren't really that scarce when you're this new. You could easily pull for Columbina now and still grind out enough primos from exploration to grab both Skirk and Escoffier during their reruns. The issue here is that I don't know if you even have a team for Columbina, and since you're new I'm assuming not. So Columbina won't be particularly useful for you unless you were to pull a lunar DPS [Zibai, Flins, Nefer] or lunar support [Ineffa, Lauma].

>From what I’ve gathered Escoffier should rerun alongside Varka and Skirk should be the banner just after.

So far we only have rumors as to when they'll rerun, but they should hopefully be pretty soon, yeah.

>Considering I don’t have a winning 50/50 would it be too unlikely to get Escoffier on my first 50/50 then Skirk on the second?

As an anecdote, I won two 50/50s in a row on Columbina, lost a third one, then used a guarantee to get Ineffa, then won another 50/50 on Columbina again. It's hypothetically possible and reasonable for you to have that luck, or you might have much worse luck than me.

>I’ve also heard that Escoffier is a wonderful support for Skirk and I’ve been wondering if Columbina would be able to replace it with the same usefulness? How do they compare in a Skirk team?

Not even remotely comparable. There is absolutely no replacement for Escoffier in a Skirk team, she's the #1 priority behind Skirk herself. Columbina doesn't really do anything that Skirk needs, and all she'd be doing is hydro application and decent subdps damage, with her only buffs coming from tenacity and TTDS. You could make it work in a pinch [until I got Furina, I used Kokomi in that role to accomplish this exact same thing], but don't bother pulling Columbina if your only plan for her is to use her with Skirk.

columbina can't replace escoffier. escoffier is a cryo support, while bina is a lunar support. just getting skirk would make the game much more easier, but to unlock her max potential you will need her premium team.

Ifa is a great driver for a taser team. I don't believe Sethos cares about electro charged/lunar charged [although Columbina/Ineffa can easily carry him anyway].

Yeah that's it. You'll win a 50/50 and then your next 5 star after that will trigger radiance

From what I understand radiance counter only goes up/down on 5050s, so whatever you get from the guarantee does not decrease it.

So you can just count your 50/50 progress only and ignore guarantees. When counter reaches 3 you get a guarantee win on a 50/50. You get +1 to the counter for a lost 50/50, -1 for a won 50/50, triggering CR resets counter to 1 (if you win next 50/50 after that the counter goes to 0 but it can't go into negatives).

Yes. Once you lose your third consecutive 50/50, your next two 5 stars are guaranteed to be the featured character.

>!This calls back to the conversation between the twins during Time and Space for you. The initial cutscene is them trying to leave after the Abyss Twin woke up the traveler during the cataclysm- the AT had been in Khaen'riah for quite a period of time while the traveler was still in their stasis pod.!<

Timeline of what I think happened

>!Spaceship passes through Teyvat. Abyss Sibling summoned by Khaenri'ah and loses their memory. Spaceship randomly crashed in NodKrai. Catacalysm happened. Diredyth told Abyss Sibling our location. Abyss Sibling recovers their memory and finds us. Both Siblings try to escape but is stoped by Asmoday.!<

130 Gb on pc.

Northern most part of the new map or you could navigate your adventure handbook and auto-navigate from there.

The research lab domain icon on top right of the island. The same one you infiltrated in the first act.

Imo, ATK all the way as her own damage doesn't deal LC damage like Flins. Her LC damage would only come from the Thunderclouds, which won't be that high anyways.

Someone do correct me if I'm wrong.

if you're using her with lauma, no

It does have HP, in the base damage part, just like the normal damage formula. Base damage is `scaling stat * talent mv`, where the scaling stat is max HP for HP scalers like Columbina. Then...

Normal formula: `base * dmg bonus * crit`

Lunar formula: `base * (EM + reaction bonus) * crit`

Keep the crit circlet.

Aubade doesn't do anything for the team, its effects are for the equipping character and Zhongli doesn't do any relevant damage off-field for it to be useful on him.

Ineffa is best on new off field damage set, while Columbina is best on Silken set.

zhongli

Imo, just C0 Ineffa. If you want Zibai for gameplay, better pull for more characters instead.

ER: https://i.redd.it/0uaq0wv0dt8g1.png

\>35k hp to max out the moonsign passive's lunar base dmg%, and as much crit as you can get your hands on in a balanced manner.

Note that the new aubade set is often not preferred over serenade, whose 2p ER is very much appreciated.

Bina needs just 45CR out of combat. She gets 30 from the DPS set, 10 from Lauma, and up to 15 from her first talent.

Er, hp, and crit.

Sucrose support build is almost always 4p VV full EM with thrilling tales.

I'd start building teams around Skirk and Mavuika imo, since they are two of the top dps in the game.

Its second team time, which is easier said than done. Top non lunar team right now is Mavuika melt with Citlali and doing fancy combos. Skirk Furina escoffier just mashing normal attacks is second, and probably a bit better than Mavuika just doing donuts. Varesa durin overload would be third.

If you don't want to do Mavuika combos, and with Furina rerun this year already? Zibai Aino Illuga might be your best bet. Or wait for later patches and hope they do a 3rd team type in nod krai not tied to lunar or hex.

There are 2 routes:

\- You go all in Flins then Ineffa is the better first pull as she is the bigger benefit to Flins than Bina. But you generally don't use her in other Lunar teams outside maybe Hyperbloom w/Lauma or just as an off field Electro driver.

\- You want to branch out to other Lunar teams in the future then Bina is a straight upgrade for Aino and can be paired with any other Lunar DPS.

Easy: Ineffas rerun can be in eons. Columbinas in some patches cause of her archon status. 
So Ineffa takes priority if you wanna try for the full team and are thinking about getting both. 
If you want only one its dependent on what you prefer more. Ineffa is great sustain and helps with energy, both do a lot of damage and help the team.

No, there is the 75/25 limited vs standard 5\* roll (still gives fates point) so you still need up to 2 5\* drop to guarantee either of the 5\* limited weapon.

After this banner passes and you lose the fate point, on a future banner you will have a 50/50 between limited A / limited B instead of the usual 25 / 37.5 / 37.5 between standard / limited A / limited B.

It sounds like you pulled a standard 5-star weapon. If that's the case, that puts you on regular, non-fate-point guarantee, ensuring that your next weapon banner 5-star will be a banner weapon. This guarantee doesn't expire when the fate point does.

It's not as impactful as on other characters who have a bigger team damage share. Her NA talent sees no use if you're not onfielding.

Jahoda kit is irrelevant, just double tap her skill and burst when available. Her contribution is mainly VV shred and the moonsign lol. Also to Lunar-Charge you need an enabler from NK anyway and the only ones available are limited 5\*s (Ineffa/Flins/Bina) so don't bother.

The rubber duck can be done with regular Electro-Charged, focus on the small ducks to clear the big duck shield and stuns it. For the Wild Hunt enemies try to focus and burst one down to clear their double health bar, if you leave them to heal up to max health (even reduced) it is basically wasted time.

Kuki benefit is mainly the long duration of her skill, and also can hold SMS or deepwood if you want to. or just that Instructor, and all you really care about is some EM or HP to increase healing

Diona c6 needs ER for burst to make that c6 relevant, and HP to improve heal or shield
so Instructor is a rather weak choice(probably works out with a sac bow, fav bow means you need crit rate too), and burst circle is horrible for deepwood when you got aoe Lauma around you instead

Strongbox no, Typewriter yes.

Bina can on-field Lunar-Blooming on any normal Dendro teams. She can also be plug into a Geo team for Lunar-Crystalize. Maybe put her into a normal Taser team for some Lunar-Charging.

But yeah if you count also other Nod-Krai 5\* then Lauma + Columbina + Dendro/Hydro/Electro flex is strong too, just treat Columbina as budget Nefer.

no, golden troupe is just that good

Depends which one you want and are looking at. Both are talked about, maybe moreso team than single character though

Like the other poster said, it depends on the context.

"Raiden is not a strong DPS" (the main damage dealer)

"Raiden's DPS is lower than Varesa's" (math of one character's damage per second)

"Flins teams and Nefer teams have similar DPS, but Nefer is more of a hypercarry" (comparing overall team damage, especially when discussing teams where there is a reaction driver rather than one main damage dealer).

Team dps is the more common/important metric. Sure, you can split it by character, and that makes sense when considering which character makes sense to buff or invest in, but it's ultimately the full picture that matters.

If people are talking about a specific number it is usually team dps but also generally it is easy enough to tell what they are talking about from context.

For durin? Yes. Cause it's literally his best in slot lmao

Yes

I believe 1

treats it as if you won that 50 50 i think

Counter goes to 1

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/1hd1sqa/understanding_genshin_impacts_capturing_radiance/

Likely to be Varka's special interaction once he is released, like how Flins can interact with the various lamps or Lauma able to get stuff from wild animals.

Furina and Raiden/Kuki hyperbloom

Bina. The new set is Ineffa's bis.

Bina, Ineffa, Sucrose. thats it.
on Flins team, youd put Ineffa on Aubade, she does more damage than Columbina
Bina ends up on SMS more cause of the ER 2p, cause she as solo hydro needs a lot of ER to burst, and makes it harder to enable Aubade.
and you need to replace Sucrose to put SMS on someone else cause her burst doesnt last long enough
note, Jahoda isnt actually an alternative, you want one teammate that is not a NK character

DM. VV doesn't work for Dendro. Tho the duration is only 8s, so you may need to switch back more often than you'd think.

Sucrose has zero utility there, and is very bad for Deepwood. it has to be Lauma if you dont add a 4th that can actually keep up deepwood passive
you use Sucrose for the EM buff, might as well keep the usual VV set anyway, or you just use 2p 2p EM if you couldnt get close to 1k EM normally

I'd use deepwood on Lauma and instructor on Sucrose.

columbina has a passive that gives 15% crit rate, so 70 is really 85 and 100 would really be overcapping. Some artifact set bonuses work similarly (as does cryo resonance in teams where that is relevant).

Also generally speaking it isn't like you can just magically have artifacts with perfect crit rolls, so in some cases people will be low on CR just because they haven't farmed enough for better stats.

Also, a 1:2 ratio of CR to CD is optimal (barring overcapping of course) for average damage in general, meaning that if you have 100 CR and less than 200 CD, then trading some CR rolls for CD rolls would improve your average damage.

Columbina priority is 35k HP to max her passive, and ER to burst
now see how much crit rate you could actually get while aiming for that

for every actual dps,
goal is always "As much as you can get" of everything, not just 100% crit rate
you want multiple stats
only some characters with weapons and/or passives or artifact sets that actually affect crit rate, do you try aiming close to 100% total

With an equal number of stats/substats, it's more efficient to aim for a 1:2 ratio between Crit Rate and Crit Dmg.

No point in reaching 100% Crit Rate if you only have 80% Crit Dmg.

Also, Columbina has a Crit Rate self-buff.

Every piece of a stat you get has a tradeoff, and for crit scaling characters the tradeoff is usually the other crit stat. If I have ten artifact rolls into crit rate, I can't commit those rolls to crit damage or atk%.

Let's say I have a character with 70 crit rate and 200 crit damage who does 100 damage by default. That means, seven times out of ten they'll do 300 damage. *On average* across 100 hits, that means they'll do 240 damage per hit.

If I improve that character's crit rate to 100, realistically I will have to lower their crit damage to something like 130, because getting lots of crit rate is *hard* and requires me to sacrifice elsewhere. Therefore 10 times out of 10 they will do 230 damage, so their average damage is 230.

For some people, the consistency is worth it. But what's important is usually what gives you the biggest average damage over time, and a balanced crit ratio is easier to achieve than going heavy into one.

Character stats page does not show potential Crit values that you gain from fulfilling certain conditions. And a lot of newer characters have talents and artifact sets that give condition-based crit.

For example Natlan's DPS set:

>After the equipping character consumes 1 Nightsoul point while on the field, CRIT Rate increases by 40% for 6s. This effect can trigger once every second.

Any Natlan DPS character is basically in Nighsoul mode all the time, so they gain +40% crit rate for free. If you check the stats page when you're not in Nightsoul mode, you won't see that +40% in effect.

So nowadays it's relatively easy to overcap on Crit Rate because of all these "hidden" condition-based modifiers that you have to calculate yourself. Annoying but it is what it is. By overcapping I mean going over 100%, it doesn't do anything and you may be sacrificing other stats like Crit Damage if you don't take those bonus Crit Rate values in your calculation.

Both nefer and flins are very good dps characters, but you don't necessarily need them, only get them if you're interested. They'll fit in your teams perfectly and will be strong, but not necessary if you don't want them.

Having lauma, ineffa, and columbina is already soooo good, and supports like them are much more valuable as you can make many teams with them. Like imo, what you have is better than flins and nefer! So don't worry, it was a good choice!

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if that "ram booster" nonsense is active, disable it and restart the phone > try again.

the chipset of the phone isn't special / rare or anything, genshin should work perfectly fine.

If you have any crapware installed like antivirus / security / cleaners / boosters, un-install them and restart the phone. those apps do not help.

Nope, it's one of if not the least restrictive

Not really, It has only one phase and does not have special mechanism requirement. Just a few things you need to be aware: 1, dodge behind the pillar at the start of the fight, 2. It has 70% pyro resistance, 3. He takes less damage from a single high damage hit (like the melt burst of a highly investment Mavuika with cons). Otherwise, nothing special.

Pyro.

Pyro is arguably the only option

Question?

go to your teapot and listen to old pimon for a bit, then mute the sound.

Gameplay wise, none of these ancient constellations are worthwhile. Either stack standards for Masterless Stella Fortuna (Mona) or pick one for your blorbo that you want to improve by a single digit percentage because it makes you happy.

could drop Furina for a bit
and use Neuvillette Columbina electro that could be Ororon or Yae, and Jahoda if you have her

Silken Moon is the standard unless she's higher investment. Ideally HP/HP/crit

rather simply SMS with hp/hp/crit
but Columbina as solo hydro needs quite a lot of ER, which is the reason SMS is gonna be used more than the new set. if you cant get enough, you simply have to go for ER sands
goal is ER to burst and 35k hp to max passive (IF you can manage that, go for the new set if you want). and whatever crit you can manage while doing those

It looks so. I have not tested myself, but I found a few videos/post on CN site and they say the same. But one post mentions that if you cannot spend all 54 stacks, it is possible that it is a damage lose because Lauma spend too much time on field to use her skill.

It's both. Obviously you're not dealing the insane dmg yet you could but the Bineffa combo easily deals with the chamber 2 & 3 mechanics and Columbina's elemental skill is also Ascendent Gleam enhanced to deal with the Wild Hunt. 

That's a bit much. How about you tell us one team or one DPS you play or like to play, and we'll get you guides for that team and how it's played including rotations? upload a pic of your roster to [catbox.moe](http://catbox.moe) or [imgur.com](http://imgur.com) etc and put the link in a comment.

the elemental reactions are a whole thing, nothing you can grasp in just a few days.. anemo alone....

You just go to Youtube and type in: "(Character Name) guide", "Spiral Abyss (character name)", or "Stygian Onslaught (character name)".

îmo: neither>>>R1 \~ C1. for lunar charged teams, C1 is around R1 in damage increase.

You'll likely hit a few quests triggers (with 1 or 2 of them involving a required battle), but it shouldn't delay you by more than a few mins in total. And they don't have any spoilers for the AQ.

the one you play or Mona.

they should use their non-aggravate standard build with ATK / Electro% / Crit.

Helpers sheet of what goes where:

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gNxZ2xab1J6o1TuNVWMeLOZ7TPOqrsf3SshP5DLvKzI/htmlview#gid=408609723](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gNxZ2xab1J6o1TuNVWMeLOZ7TPOqrsf3SshP5DLvKzI/htmlview#gid=408609723)

You build them as usual, atk/electro/crit. There's no need to consider contribution to lunar charged for them, because you can be sure Ineffa and Columbina are taking the #1-#2 contributions, and the #3-and-beyond contributors pretty much don't matter. Reaction LC is only a minor slice of team dps anyway.

The wheelchair of Columbina + Ineffa should trivialize any lunar mechanics with the least amount of effort (just EQ every ~16-20s and you're good) You should be able to run Ineffa/Bina/Durin/Venti.

Any of the onfield chars (Flins, Nefer, Zibai) would require you to like/learn their gameplay, Lauma is actually not that great in term of lunar damage output since her strength is in her buff and that requires Nefer or Bina to actually utilize as lunar damage.

Ineffa - Aino - Fischl - Sucrose is a good team, forcing any of Yelan, Durin and Venti in a lunar charged team won't be great.

it sure doesn't matter. end-game is a looong way out, and maybe you won't even enjoy and play it like 98% of the player base. when you're close to the endgame, meta will look completely different.

So, "like" / "want" really is more important. Saving a good amount of wishes would be the meta way to go, to get characters that are in the meta then.

You can't brick an account now, or waste mats. Only wishes.

core now means 2 character that are now needed as supports / enabling and, well.. damage

Zhongli would probably be the best option, but then you're only using PAmber healing for Furina. Might be worth replacing Furina for Yelan at that point, but maybe try both and see how you feel about it. Not like you have better options for Geo Healers though...

You can try Noelle - Noelle-Navia was already a semi-decent team. Noelle on-field, Navia's on GT as you just swap to her , use her skill and go back to Noelle.

You can also try Kachina - Scroll set doesn't boost Lunar-Reaction, it will still boost Furina and the Bin hydro damage, and of course Navia's Geo damage. Downside is you're relying on PAMber Columbina, so you probably won't get that much Fanfare.

If you're happy playing Lauma Hyperbloom and want a better Flins team, picking Ineffa should overall give you a stronger Flins team and a good enough Lauma team. If you want to try playing Bina DPS sometimes, then getting her could make a decent Bina team with Lauma, or a good Flins team. Hard to say, both are fine options honestly, and ofc getting lucky with both would be ideal. If you like both equally, I'd lean towards Ineffa, since Bina will get more frequent reruns.

Nefer wants Lauma and Flins wants Ineffa. So of these three Ineffa might be the most valuable for you.

Of those, Ineffa for sure (if you can afford her now). Nefer kinda struggles a lot without Lauma and is harder to play, Flins is alright but not going to be that much better than a Bina+Ineffa, and you can put about half the units in the game as the on-fielder with those 2 so it's about as flexible as it gets.

Columbina can allow non-Nod Krai characters to trigger lunar reactions. So if you have any already built dendro/electro dps, or plan to get the new geo Zibai lady(which might be the best pick in the short term), then you don't really have to get Ineffa/Nefer/Flins if you prefer to save for future new characters.

Ineffa is a sub dps and pairs well with Flins, just like Nefer and Lauma goes best together.

No

some lunoculi get covered by map icons (eg: [the meeting point icon in final night cemetery](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/s/mfuLqwIdfF) or teleport waypoint icon in nasha town / barrowmoss barrens). there's also some on the edges of the map (particularly ones in little islands) that are sometimes easy to miss.

what i recommend you do is have the interactive map open on a separate screen / device, activate compass, then cross check the locations between the interactive map and your in-game map. if you've done all the world quests then all the areas with oculi should be accessible to you already.

For LC, you'll want EM/EM/Crit

Levelling his skill increases his healing, so even if you're treating his damage as a complete lost cause you probably still want to put at least some levels into it.

You're fine. Just play as normal.

I haven't done too much story in the new region yet, but basically everything I've seen there so far seems like it's set after the AQ.

You could try using upscaling (image scaling in graphics options) from the nvidia app to a make up the difference by rendering the game at a lower resolution and upscaling, not as good as proper DLSS, but it should help get a bit of performance back without too much of a visual hit.

Otherwise, how are you configuring smooth motion + unlocker? to get smooth motion with a 280hz display, you'd want to unlock to 140 fps then activate smooth motion from there.

generally the new area gimmick is just hit the dark thing with the nearest light thing

Prototype Amber in most cases except Stygian.

I like exploring everything first, then quest, then fontaine, then event.

That's fine yeah. Columbina likes the ER from the 2pc bonus from Silken

Ineffa wants ATK but not much ER, Columbina wants HP and a lot ER, so it largely depends on what you have on hand and how is your luck when you farm the new set. Tenacity is also an option.

Do you happen to have a screenshot of the location on the map? Otherwise, logging out and back in may help fix things as sometimes quests can interfere with chests and puzzles.

strongebox them for other artifact sets. Go to the crafting table and go the last tab on top.

I transmute lvl 0 artifacts if they don't meet the criteria for the users of the set. For example, Emblem would want all 3 of Crit Rate, Crit Damage and ER. So if an artifact doesn't have all three, it's an auto trash. Unless it has a double crit line as those can ve used as an offpiece.

But for obsidian set, I'd want Crit Damage, EM, Crit Rate, and HP/ATK depending on who I'm building. Mualani would want all C. Rate, C. Damage, EM and HP. So the artifact should have at least 3 good substats.

>do you level artifacts to lv 20 just to see where rng takes you or just scrap when 2 of the substats match?

For an old set, if the rolls don't go to 2 of the desired stats, trashed. If it's a new set though, I'd take it to 20 and equip it first.

No, you can do a team using all 3, with Bina on-field doing Lunar-Bloom. 4th would still be Sucrose generally, or a healer if you need one. You could also put a Hydro DPS there, like Neuvillette.

With just Bina+Ineffa, any Anemo, Hydro or Electro DPS works, Pyro, Geo or Dendro CAN work but it depends, and Cryo probably won't work very well.

You could go Ineffa, Bina, Lauma and Kuki and make it a Lunar/Hyperbloom team.

Prospector's shovel

Most people use Fav. Lance on her.

Depending on your refinements, serpent spine is usually better except for r1, where the difference is genuinely pretty small. In general though, any avg dps could probably use WGS. I like it on Diluc and Chongyun

It can be put on pretty much any ATK-scaling claymore user. Mavuika, Beidou, Diluc, Eula, Kinich, etc. Serpent Spine R5 is still the better choice in most cases but it’s a nice option to have for instances where you can’t share weapons.

Ineffa doesn't really work without a Hydro to proc lunar-charged which is where most of her damage comes from.

I'm not sure about the difference between Fischl and Raiden. If I had to guess I would say it's really close. With the hexerei buff with Durin and Fischl, I would say that team would do more damage than Raiden. But, if you haven't finished building Fischl, a better built Raiden would probably be more.

Somene else might be able to give you a more concrete answer though

Everyone's stats will be counted, but the final damage = highest damage contributor + 1/2 x second highest damage contributor + 1/12 x third damage contributor + 1/12 x lowest damage contributor

So as long as your Ineffa and Columbina all have good crit, the other two characters' stat won't affect too much.

Both Ineffa and Zibai are good pulls imo, you'd just split Columbina and Furina. Idk if Neuv is worth it given you'd need at lease C1R1 to make him feel good.

My call would be wait for Nefer + Lauma, get C2R1 Nefer + Lauma. Run Furina Xilonen Raiden Sara, and put Iansan in Mavuika team. If you're unwilling to wait, C1 Zibai would be good as well, but it's weaker than Nefer with worse vertical investment option.

You have to hit them with reactions or infused attacks. Lunar reactions obviously work better.

They put up a shield at first, break it to stun + pull them together.

Obviously lunar damage break it faster.

Columbina. Ineffa weapons here https://keqingmains.com/q/ineffa-quickguide/#Weapons

Afaik, the Scaramouche weekly boss is still the best for that. It has -140% res when stunned.

There is a local legend in Natlan, a green Wayob inside of an "Obelisk Realm", whose main gimmick is you killing summons in a pseudo-realm; and each wave gives you more damage, but also deals stacking damage to you, until you leave this pseudo-realm. When you finally do so, your damage is GREATLY increased by the stacks you managed to gather; to the point you can "easily" do tenfold your normal damage. Would that be of interest for you, or too broken/gimmicky/hacky?

Imo, Ineffa is a good character. She's basically a 5 star version of Fischl, but when combined with Lunar Reactions(with Columbina) she's actually good.

If you're using her as an on-field dps, then yeah, you'd want to level it at least a bit. Although it'd still be a lower priority than the other 2.