Quote Originally Posted by WaterShield View Post
I can't say what exact effect this will have on queue times given I do not have access to the demographics of each server, but I am very apprehensive.
Queue times will be largely unaffected by the split. There are 2 main factors that affect queue times, population amount and role distribution.

For population amount, as long as you have a certain base level of people your queue times aren't going to change and with the crossworld duty finder each of the DCs will have that base level of people. That said there are times on Primal and Aether when times go up, usually around 1-6am when people are sleeping. What I would expect to see after the split is for that range to increase to maybe 12-7am as the population starts dropping due to people logging off but during normal play times there shouldn't be any difference.

Role distribution is the primary driver of queue times, IE there are fewer tanks and healers than DPS. There's no reason to expect the ratio of tanks to healers to dps to change after the split so there's no reason to expect queue times to change.

Each DC has its own quirks for queue times, and those will change certainly, but as a whole I wouldn't be worried about queue times.