Info on EU Preferred Worlds?

[MistakeNot]

So what you are saying is that new players are best to avoid playing on the EU servers then?

Not at all. I would not recommend a Preferred world for new players anyway.
The big Exp bonus you get there really messes up the leveling pace and leveling experience unless you know how to handle it - which new players won't know how to do. Rushing to level cap is not the point of the game anyway.

Keep in mind that they don't just slap the Preferred label on worlds at random. It is used for those worlds whose population is unusually small and which need more players. Ideally all the worlds would have about equal population, and then there would not be any need for Congested or Preferred servers at all.