Don't RP, should I move off Balmung? Where to go, if so?

[Elysande]

So, with one very important caveat: as long as the DC travel situation remains what it is, if you go anywhere other than Aether you'll wind up DC traveling back to Aether for content.

The important caveat is that this will not be the case during 7.0 release and potentially for several weeks afterwards. Post-expansion surge is going to make DC travel somewhere between 'very onerous' and 'outright impossible' if you play at prime hours.

I understand, and should have probably mentioned I play this game incredibly slow and casually, so don't ever expect to be doing current content right as it rolls out. I'm less worried about being able to DC travel (and plan to do so when need be), and moreso if Dynamis doesn't end up with a stable enough population to justify Square Enix having the servers around. Not sure if they'd shut it all down and merge what's over there or not, but if they did, I wouldn't be able to keep a house anyways..

I would say Dynamis, so that you can get a house, and it is even free I think. You can always dc travel if you need to run content. You can also make Gil on Dynamis by simply flipping things from other dc, if you are interested in make Gil from people who are not bothered to dc travel.

Yes, housing is my main focus, and been DC traveling around here as of late to get used to it since it's new to me and get a feel for available plots/marketboard stability. The one question I keep coming back to is: can I do as well selling items on Dynamis as I do on Balmung? To me, that's the only thing Balmung offers as I'm more familiar with selling there.

Aether def has the players if you're wanting to run PvE content. Housing is available of course on Midgardsormr for example they're are scattered smalls and some mediums available. You can usually find others to run stuff with through PF and so forth. I'd recommend checking out the diff DC and seeing how they are then make a decision which one you'd like to go too.

I took your suggestion and even visited Midgardsormr, it seems nice and I may have ended up choosing your server but the amount of available plots on Dynamis is massive in comparison to anywhere else, and even if they do fill up here before long each server still has five empty wards that likely won't unlock until 7.0 launches and that alone is just too tempting to me. Maybe I'm just too focused on Medium housing plots, but I like the possibility of bidding on one without 70 other people being there, too.