Afraid of congestion with everyone logging in and having to switch realms at the last second battling everyone else.
Follow these steps below and you shouldn’t have any issues. It should start you on caretaker.
Navigate to your Wildstar Addon Folder
C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\NCSOFT\WildStar
<User> is your Account Name on Windows..
Open the file named Account.AccountName@Email, Change the setting for your realm name, to what-ever realm you are going to roll on, and you will be able to skip having to switch realms!
login.realm=YourRealmHere
example: login.realm=Caretaker