The downtimes between patches are nice for me. Lets me work on slowly getting all my classes maxed out(crafters are still mostly in their 30s, only 3 of them are 40+), and helping friends through story/dungeons/stuff on their alts. As well as lets me do some farming(stupid Zurvan not dropping his bird after 18 or so runs...).

Also gives me time to play other games at the same time.