Personality of servers?

[YojimboM]

General consensus seem to be:

• Aether: Raiding.
• Primal: PvPing.
• Crystal: Roleplaying.

I have no idea where you're getting this info from. As someone who does PVP on Primal and Aether, Aether's PVP scene is generally regarded as better than Primal's, Primal is just "watered down" Aether in every aspect. Aether has always been more centralized for hardcore raiders and FCs, which also translates into a generally larger population of hardcore players in both PVE and PVP.

Your experience will likely not be too different regardless of if you play on Primal or Aether, though, since many of the hardcore players from either DC play on both of them, if you are playing at that level. It's pretty safe to say Primal and Aether are functionally the same.

Crystal is in a really bad place right now since most of the veteran players jumped ship to stay in statics or migrated to established servers on Aether and Primal. Playing on Crystal would be significantly different than the other two due to the disproportionate number of casual players to raiders left on it.

As far as specific servers on Primal and Aether, just avoid Behemoth or Gilgamesh if you don't want to deal with running into Dunning-Kruger type toxicity.