This thread is garbage. Just absolute garbage. Most republics are stuck in champ gear? Do you know how dumb that is? If your guild is so great why don't you organize ops for Ilum, and share your voip with them so you can communicate better. That's what we do on my server. Organize ops, we all get on someones vent, and roflstomp Imperial zerg.
It also just boggles my mind. Ilum wasn't perfect at launch, it's not perfect now. But everyone was happy when they got free pvp bags, but now that Bioware is trying to make people fight, you all whine and cry, and don't even want to take the necessary steps to be successful on Ilum.
Also farming valor doesn't give you gear. Republics have just as much chance to acquire Battlemaster gear.
PS - Yeah my server has a lot of Sith Battlemasters. The ones who sit on ilum all day and farm, are terrible though, and are easily farmed. Cause all they know how to do is AoE spam.