I wonder if there is going to be a new event that hasn't been announced yet, as the raid will consume orbs and not energy.
Surely, Gumi wouldn't give everyone yet another consecutive week to freely macro?
I'm reading your comment and I think I had my inspirational thought for day, connecting the points together that you wrote in combination with the news video.
The reason that there is going to be a global exclusive trial is because Gumi can't realistically release the next trial from JP while key awakenings and units are still being withheld. Alim created the upcoming trials under the guise of 6* WoL, 6* Tilith, and enhanced Ramza being things. Thus, a new trial needs to be created to advance power creep requirements while acknowledging that these units still don't exist on Global.
I'm really starting to seriously (instead of jokingly) believe that these upgrades will actually be held off until the Global Anniversary Event as that would be the approximate timing for the next trial to appear, given the once-a-month release of new trials.
We've done Giglamesh and Siren without many of those units and awakenings and people have been downing them with units 3 or 4 months old. Every bit of content has been underestimate for where GL is at. Even pushing stuff like the Ifirt raid ahead 2 or 3 month buffed, turned out to be a joke. While we don't have WoL, Tilith, Bainther, Forren, Illus, Ramza, Rikku, etc. From the recommended units. I see no reason why Evasion Noctis isn't going to be beasting.
Probably the biggest wretch in the system to date was the FFII trial with physical resistant. Where very few people had mages geared. But I mean, we have a single Ling taking down the latest trial. TM macroing has completely fucked with the balance. So releasing something like WoL 6* or Ramza, is like giving another Bazooka for deer hunting. I don't think it matters if those units are released when our power curve is far beyond where it was at JPN in this stage. I think the multiple stages for the bosses is a good idea. Whatever the JPN one was at should be advance and ELT should be an entire new thing.
TM's basically opened an entire new route, they need to balance around. And to think, the two most broken units still are Noctis and Ling. Two GL exclusives(I know Noctis is on JPN, but he did not come in this form this early). It's not like Orlandu or Eileen changed it. They just let you nuke down the boss quickier, when the boss can't even kill your Ling. The evasion tank meta with resistances is in.