Need a leveling server. Balmung Transfer later.

[Grawbad]

True, world transfer allows you to bypass the restriction, but it's not as hard to create a character on high pop servers as you think. Just has to be done in early, early morning or "Soap Opera" hours.

Except for Balmung. When I was able to create mine on Gilgamesh finally I was trying for Balmung, and this was over a year ago. Even at those early hours and after maintenance Balmung was still locked and I settled for Gilgamesh.
It took nearly a month for me even to get Gilgamesh.

I never saw Balmung open for creation and from what I read it pretty much never is these days regardless of time.