I do CTA every weekend as long as my toons are able to based on whatever level restrictions are there. the Exp in CTA weekends are unlike anything else you'll get. Basically if you don't do CTA (if your able to) your only hurting yourself if your goal is to level (and get honor).
Though I find the SotA profile kinda buggy atm, I have found my toon running back and forth on the same " level " lots of times. Also I have seen it running to the left side of the mapp into the wall until the fight is over. Im not sure if there are any player made profiles for SotA would have been nice though
your S.O.O.L. basically sucks i know but its life I normally work on leveling/grinding unless i'm able to do CTA... on the weekends though if you arn't able to do CTA's, other bg's usualy give a lightly higher exp and such due to the amount of people doing them, so still worth trying other bg's