What direction should I go now?

In my opinion, do not overwork yourself for finishing singularities early. This game has heavy grinding, and it may burn out new players due to content (I for one stopped playing JP because I'm overwhelmed with the content even they have the latest QoL updates). My advice is dedicate a day for you to farm EXP, farm QP and do singularities. Raise your main servants first then once you can, raise servants in each class with ST and AoE NP. But since tomorrow will be 1/2 AP free quest, if you can farm mats for your main servants on the best nodes you have unlocked. This site has a servant planner that you can use to plan for your servants.

Edit: This is the mat drop rates for every node. Look on the NA tab. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_SlTjrVRTgHgfS7sRqx4CeJMqlz687HdSlYqiW-JvQA/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=103533595329297300700

imo, seeing you already have jeanne d'arc lvl 80 and some useful low star servant. it's advisable to prepare your low star servant especially the one w/ farming potential ,since after this we'll probably get 3 straight event... Which is offer 2 welfare servant.

Personally, I'll only do 20/30 AP Mats dailies and balance it with ember and QP farming, because it'd nice if i could maxed out the welfare servant once i get them (Drop and Damage Bonus)

For the main story, just let them be, or at least until the end of prisma event because after that we'll get 1/2 AP free quest (probably) which is great to prepare mats for Nero redux or camelot

Lot of different replies and yet we all agree take your time with the story quests. I would focus on getting Jeanne and Carmilla max ascended. Dont worry about skills for now. Have at least one back up DD to sub for Carmilla in case you face a caster. Normally I dont recommend a berserker since using them can be trickier but because you have Jeanne she can be very beneficial at keeping one alive. I hear Lu Bu is a good choice.

You could also level one or two servants for farming. I recommend Arash or Kiyohime. With the week of 1/2 ap on Free Quests that would be the best time to do those in order to get more SQ or much needed mats. After that it sounds like we'll get back to back events with 2 welfare servants. One of which, btw, is a fantastic single target arts user that will benefit from Jeannes arts deck and star generating skill.

Gonna deviate from the norm and say if you feel like it and have spare AP try and complete London. Not saying you shouldn't level and skill up your servants first just that the ending to London might be the best part in the story mode for me so far. The best part to play through as well

I would just do whatever the game is making it efficient to do - i.e. dailies until the end of today, free quests for the upcoming week, and probably summer event the week after.

You can wait for 1/2 ap story events to do the singularities.

I would also recommend taking the time to grind. The Singularities are there in the down time between events. Having a strong team will allow you to complete events more easily and also allow you to pick up immensely valuable resources as well as a few great free 4 star servants as well for the major events.

Other than that, I’d advise to play the way that best suits you. After all, enjoyment is just as important in this game.