What's a good NA server to make a new character on?

[Jeeqbit]

The reality is that, right now, high-end content is something people go to Aether for due to everyone using DC travel. In every region, it's caused one DC to be the "raid DC".

But that doesn't mean you have to make your character on Aether. You can use DC travel to go to Aether when you actually want to raid.

Dynamis is a new data center with a lot of capacity and it needs its population to grow. But that sometimes means you need travel to other NA data centers to get things done until its population grows enough.

Any other NA data center is fine. On any other one, you can queue for duties and you are fine. Again, it's easy to travel to Aether if you need to. Aether gets congested a lot, so it is considerate to not contribute to that problem by making a character there. Primal and Crystal are great when you're not raiding.

You mentioned Jenova. It would be a good idea to go to Jenova rather than Gilgamesh because Gilgamesh is more congested. It's congested because of how it is regarded as a raiding world. But you don't really need to be on that world to raid or to join a static. Even people from Dynamis join Aether statics now thanks to DC travel.

Jenova is "good community and good vibes" for sure. Gilgamesh can be more mixed being such a large server.

[Amenara]

DC travel is rarely a hassle or complication. I use it frequently, just about daily on one character or another.

OP wants a good community and vibes so I'd imagine they would end up spending extended periods of time on a different DC if they picked Dynamis as my understanding is a large portion of the native Dynamis players spend a lot of time off world. That means they are playing without contact with their FC and are relying on CWLS for a community when they spend time on a different DC. Depending on how much time they spend on a different DC it could be very inconvenient having to go back and forth for retainers and ventures and I have a friend that it got bad enough for them to transfer back to Aether because of the inconvenience.

what is greg like? i was thinking either there or jenova

I don't have much experience with Jenova but Gilga is pretty chill with the community. I think Gilga has the best NN in Aether and has a lot of people that are willing to help with whatever. I am 100% biased but I just think most everyone there is really chill to play with.

[NekoMataMata]

Any of the Dynamis servers if you're not free trial. Road to 80 buff is incredibly nice, and while queues may be slow, as long as you're not a FT you can make a PF listing and someone will help you unsync the MSQ duties you need.

If you want more community options though, I would probably recommend any of the other 3 NA DCs.

[Kakurady]

If you know any friends who play Final Fantasy XIV, the best world would be whichever they play on. Maybe ask around to see if you already know someone who plays FFXIV?

If you can't create a character on the same world, being on the same data center will at least let you exchange messages with them.

[OliverQ]

I would recommend an Aether server, maybe Gilgamesh. Dynamis is unfortunately pretty dead right now, and Primal and Crystal have limited PF groups.

[Hyperia]

Sarg on Aether has a good balance of activity and still allows new players.

[LianaThorne]

Yes, please encourage all new players to go to Aether before Dawntrail and cause congestion problems to the extent of what we had in Endwalker (if they aren't going to happen already regardless since everyone and their mother is there already).

My condolences to those who will have to wait in an hour+ queue. I hope you'll prepare some snacks. I'll just be getting my content done in a timely fashion with the rest of the Dynamis crowd who sticks around to do Day 1 content on DC (as we've done for the past patches since it's launched).