There are a LOT of new players on Marilith. And often I'm finding it's not fresh new players, but veterans working up an alt to play through things again and be a newbie for a while. I just hit HW and run roulettes fairly regularly. Queue times may not be as fast as my home server Jenova but Mari right now feels like Jenova did when I first started playing. Jenova used to be a very small server. Now it's grown a lot. I feel that Mari will do the same.

I will agree with many others. There's a lot of bots. I can mostly just ignore them, though.