Quote Originally Posted by Alukah View Post
At east coast and west coast peak hours try to create a new character, the servers locked for new creations will be the busiest ones, repeat for several days to weed out potential spikes and only keep the really busy ones.

Though out of all the busy servers I'd say stay away from Balmung if you ever hope to get a personal house
I'd say this is your best bet. There's also this website that uses public data info to estimate server populations, which races are played most, etc. Can't say how accurate it is, but here it is! Boop. Happy server hunting! ^_^