User blog comment:JmLyan/Rira, the Arcane Focus/@comment-24474109-20140523170854/@comment-7481207-20140523174954

Her W does consume the focal point yes.

As for the Q, I wanted it to have some incetive to leveling it up as it provides neither damage nor CC, it could be useful to level up first in combination with one point in W to get stuns more often, for example if playing support. But I suppose more charges, longer duration and higher cast range is enough incentive. I'll make the early rank recharge time a bit nicer (It originally scaled from 20-5, but that was just too high).