English (NA) Realms?

[Hieral]

All servers that don't say (JP) next to them in character creation are English.

[Natsuno]

Very bad idea. Moogle is EU, so DF prime time is totally different from NA.

Just to add to this, the EU servers will (hopefully) be relocated to the EU by the end of the year, which will probably increase your latency.

[Tharian]

Sargatanas is a Legacy server, so it's one of the more populated ones out there. It's very active throughout the day and the evening primetime for US players. Since you'd be transferring servers, you wouldn't have the issue of waiting for the server to be open to new players either. It's pretty easy to make money on this server and the endgame community is active.

Actually the restriction of waiting for the server to be open to new players associated with most Legacy Servers applies to both creating a new character as well as server transfers. I know this because I actually looked into what was required for a server transfer a while back and that was one of the sticking points that you had to clear in order to not have to have problems with a Server Transfer.

As a Sargatanas resident however, I will say that Sargatanas is one of the best servers I have seen. It has an incredibly stable economy. The queues for dungeons, raids and other things, while long for DPS, tend not to be overly long; meanwhile the queues for Tanks and Healers tend to be near instantaneous. There are almost always people on. The only real problem with the server is the large number of gil spammers that populate Ul'dah and who send spam messages to people all over the server.

[DreadRabbit]

Welp, I'll just throw a vote in for Zalera (Aether data center). Won't lie, since we are a lower population server certain areas are ghost towns at certain times of the day with the pre-expac quiet time. There's a lot of RMT too.

BUT

There's a small-town feel to the server that's actually really nice. Most of the people I've run into are very kind. There's small circles of communities that are building up. I know there's one or two hunt-oriented linkshells, several smaller RP related FCs, quite a few raiding FCs, and there's a group of people who hold "underwear dance parties" at Gold Saucer after every jumbo cactpot drawing each week. So while we're small, there's roots for some really fun groups being planted.

[Sapphic]

Just to add to this, the EU servers will (hopefully) be relocated to the EU by the end of the year, which will probably increase your latency.

It may, in some cases, improve based on the route the individuals connection takes to the servers XD

[Natsuno]

It may, in some cases, improve based on the route the individuals connection takes to the servers XD

That just reminded me of the NA ISP that restricts traffic from the EU. When 2.55 and MGS patches went live, it was near unplayable for a time. Hoping it will not be the same for HW, but not holding my breath.

[Shneibel]

Sorry, I am relatively new. I accidentally created my character on a Japanese server. I would like to transfer to an english speaking server. Can someone point me to an active realm? Thanks!

the server you cannot get in at prime time are popular server, just make sure to not pick the Eu server, the time zone is different from yours:

2 popular server which I have in mind are:
Balmung & Excalibur

That just reminded me of the NA ISP that restricts traffic from the EU. When 2.55 and MGS patches went live, it was near unplayable for a time. Hoping it will not be the same for HW, but not holding my breath.

I am living in Eu and play at Excalibur, my latency is not that bad. Compare to when the server was in JP, this is much better