Wings of war, you said " I believe that JP servers actually have it slightly worse with most people seeing long que times because the servers are actually full unlike N/A servers."

Not true, since early access, I have Balmung(legacy) constantly full, have not gotten to play my beta character in it. Created another character in another NA server, no go, its full, try again later.
Created one in Ultima JP, in right away, not a single issue.