Here's an idea about Ilum; change it back to the way it was and just lower the rewards if you're worried about it being too easy. Don't go to the opposite extreme and make it impossible to achieve by all but requiring raids, having kills not count in said raids, and requiring 30 kills a day (counting the ones that don't give credit, about 100 to 200).
PVP was how I was occupying my time while waiting for my guildies to catch up to me in level, but not anymore it seems. I don't even imagine wanting to try doing all this on a PVP server where EVERYONE is at Ilum, and I feel sorry for those of you who HAVE to put up with this.