What's a good NA server to make a new character on?

[Jojoya]

Join Aether (greg is the best ofc) if you don't want to go through the hassle and complications of DC travel, otherwise if that doesn't bother you than anything on Dynamis.

DC travel is rarely a hassle or complication. I use it frequently, just about daily on one character or another.

Generally it only takes about a minute. The exception would be patch week or the start of an expansion due to the higher volume of players online trying to use it.

I'd still agree that it sounds like an Aether world would be the OP's best bet in the long run.

[Toutatis]

DC travel is rarely a hassle or complication. I use it frequently, just about daily on one character or another.

Generally it only takes about a minute. The exception would be patch week or the start of an expansion due to the higher volume of players online trying to use it.

Personally I find DC travel to be a hassle. I’ve made a character on Dynamis for housing and every time I had to run a dungeon, I would have to DC travel which also meant no fc bonuses, no retainers, no selling on the MB, no crafting while waiting because it would fill up my inventory with mats and crafted items, no fc chat or linkshells from the home dc, no visiting my house, no fc chest, high travel costs on low level chars, gimped gold saucer while waiting (essentially none of the activities I do normally while I wait for the queue to pop or PF to fill) . I ended up abandoning that character. .

I have a character on Aether but my main is on Primal and I have pretty much stopped doing anything requiring PF on that char because I would just end up waiting idle while it fills (or refills if someone abandons). Primal used to have a healthy PF and the current situation is very annoying.

If I were starting with the game and was interested in end game content like OP, I would pick Aether. XP comes easy nowadays and levelling up 2-3 jobs with regular fc or gc and gear bonuses is very easy to do.