Chapter XI: Azure & Omega
Wait, four months have passed already?! Well, that was fast. Same as our progression through the 6th Rotation Season. We could clearly feel the Endwalker potency changes and stat squish especially in the Extreme Trials, which had to endure our "kill trains'' each weekend! For the 7th Rotation Season we add more content so that it can last a bit longer and offers a larger variety of fun side content like our Alliance Raid or Storyrun evenings.

Also, our Coils of Bahamut progression was quite fast. After just 4 months of raid time we are already done with it! For comparison Eden requires about 15 months and Alexander was done before in 9 months. We estimate Omega will take roughly as much time as Alexander did. Because of that, the 1st Raid Series containing Coils and Alex needs more content to bring it closer to the 2nd Raid Series of Omega and Eden.

Therefore we've started to offer Blue Mage content from ARR and HW in Syncademy. First we had two kick-off weeks to catch up in levels and get some basic spells, and now we start our BLU progression in the Coils of Bahamut with the knowledge about the fights still fresh in our minds. Additionally, we have added some BLU Extreme Trials to our 7th Rotation Season for ARR and HW too. Based on the outcome of this season, we'll continue to add even more Blue Mage content to our portfolio.

But not everything has been too fast in Syncademy over the last months. The progression through Eden has slowed down a lot and we're currently working on improvements to reach and finish the last half of E12S. It may still require some time, but once it's done, we'll continue with Omega instead of going forward to Pandaemonium.

The reasoning there is that we currently do not have the raid leader capacity to start current content raiding. There are also additional questions like gearing that could limit our mixed raiding approach and also require more raid time (especially Tuesday for reclearing) and therefore we would need more raid leaders to cover those days and groups too.

Given we just BLU through a pile of content, let’s be BLU together! Da ba dee!