I conveniently had a 4 day weekend having worked over thanksgiving, and while I'm not a morning person i was able to be up an hour after servers came up and had a 4k queue, but was in by 5 am. Played all day no issues went to bed and got up and logged in at 9/10 am both Saturday and Sunday with 50ish in queue, same as i had seen week leading up to patch, all 3 days no issue playing. Got reaper and sage to 80. Haven’t touched any new story areas yet but was able to play well all weekend.

Back to my normal life now and wont be able to play till after 6pm... i expect long queues based off of what I've been reading, but i had not made any plans to actually dig into the story until my xmas vacation in a few weeks. So i feel lucky to have played as much as i have the last few days. I wish others have good luck the next few weeks so i can get back in and play without massive crowds at all the npcs lol