Just gonna throw my own hat into the, "this congestion is bullshit," ring. I understand the value of allowing cross-realm participation, but the key flaw was in making the firmament a server-based event rather than a shard based event.

If this had been a crafting version of Eureka, where everyone entered instances which tracked progress that counted towards all servers on the shard, this wouldn't be an issue. But here we are -- with players locked out of content because of server hopping players with more time to play than we've got. It's silly and it lacks in foresight, and it's absolutely outrageous.