No thanks. I remember what Aether was like back before Crystal was created. I'm glad they take measures to prevent megadatacenters that constantly crash and have issues.

I can't speak on endgame, but up to post-HW, queues do take more time than Aether because it's a smaller pool but it's the difference between instant or 5 minute queue and 15 or 20 minutes for most roulettes. Alliance can still take a bit but it's gone down. I had to DC jump last night for Thordan but that's because it was 3 in the morning when I got to it. I've been able to do other group required content up to this point with little trouble. It's actually been a little nice for my alt that I can queue up and then go get some things done before queue pops whereas on Aether I don't have time to breathe before the queue pops. When I'm working through MSQ again, that's definitely a positive for me.

I said it in the other thread but Marilith right now feels like where Jenova was when I first started in 2014. We were very small. And now we're regularly a Congested server. Marilith and the others will grow.