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Early October for DMM, although since we got the massive anniversary content update 2 months early... we can't exactly predict when certain content will drop anymore.
Umm, that was kind of predictable though. We just got the patch on Nutaku anniversary instead of DMM anniversary. That happened last year too, except that they split the anniversary into two parts that time (some on Nutaku anniversary, the rest on DMM anniversary date). This time we got all of it on Nutaku date.

Aside from that, as far as I can recall, the only thing we've gotten early is the "you can no longer see raid event help requests until you've visited the raid front page" change, which we got like... 8 months early. Obviously because support didn't want to deal with hundreds of "OMG WHERE ARE MY SOULS AND RAID TICKETS?!?" complaints every. Single. God. Damn. Raid. Event.

Unless you want to count Awakening, which we tend to get one event early, probably because of payday differences.
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I know my Light team can be said to be useless at the moment until I get Sol and probably even Light Tsukuyomi.--
Now that Michael got her awakening, the Light hard carries are Michael and Tish, the latter of which wasn't in Miracle Ticket. ALL Light SSRs are going to be buffed to stupid power levels, although many of them require specific, other Light SSRs to support them for them to work.
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Weapon:
For my weapon grid, Dark is my weakest due to lack of assault weapons(SRs) so I am currently running Phantom Blade Calamity Ripper(glaive) which I somehow obtained from a random Ragnarok raid I was leeching from at the time, along with 5 other off-element glaives to activate second skill, then filling rest with my very few dark assault weapons.--
... please no. If you don't have Dark SSRs, fill your Grid with Assault SRs available from the Disaster Raids. Ragnarok doesn't drop them, but all other difficulties do.
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My questions:
1) Now that I've gotten Ares and have a 6SSR fire team, how should I set the team up now?--
You should probably bring SR Heph if you have her. Dakki is great against Wind. Amaterasu will be great for you, and Ares will be decent... if you can Awaken her. That's a lot of materials that you just might not have, and she's not very impressive before that.

So mix and match depending on what content you do. Since you have no hard carries, only Amaterasu and SR Heph will go into every Fire team of yours.
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3) Souls, I know there is a "What soul should I pick" thread, but let's be honest, anyone can on paper, tell you what the Best Soul+Best Himes are, except that doesn't work unless you actually have all those SSR himes to build however you want.
Actually, that thread should make it clear that it's fairly universal... like for you, Joan would've been waaayyyy better than the Andromeda trap.

Anyway, next up you need Joan (for her damage cut) and then Herc, since you might be strong enough to get Herc Relic weapon at that point, which just turns you into the usual "Herc goes into every team" like most other players.
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4) Eidolon Orbs, I have already spent a few grabbing 2 Icarus and for some reason, 2 Jack O'Lantern(I prob messed up on this one). I know some people might say that I should've saved them for those dragoons, --
Veterans will often say that Kaisers are the only thing that you should use Orbs on, but you have the right idea. The reason why veterans can say that is because they already have all the basics from the events. Those who lack the basics - such as a good Elemental Attack Eidolon (for off-element) or a +Character/HP Eidolon (for on-element with a Friend 100%) - need to get those up first.

So if you want to use your Dark off-element, those Jacks aren't a bad idea at all. Also, you might want to buy Tiamats since those have amazing stats and go into every element Eidolon grid.
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5) Accessory shop, I'm going to assume nothing is worth it except the Ancient SSRs? Are the normal SSRs worth getting for short-mid term gains?
There's two ways to look at Accessory Shop. You either buy Ancients and hope to get good enigmas on them, or you buy SRs for fodder. The non-Ancient SSRs have an AWFUL chance of being good, so stay away from those.
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6) Miracle tickets, --
Sorry, it's best not to think too much on future Miracle Tickets until the time comes. You might pull something crazy in the meantime. Plus we don't even know who even will be in the Miracle Tickets since Nutaku hasn't been entirely consistent with DMM on that.

Make a wall of text in the Miracle Ticket thread once the next one is out, and hopefully somebody will offer you insight into which element you should commit to.