You all must be doing it wrong..
Last night at approximately 7PM I logged into my server, Corellian Run, and immediately went to Ilum.
I'm a fresh 50 Commando who loves PVP but due to real life I cannot play as much as most people but when I play I'm determined to have fun!
Upon arriving into Ilum I noticed that we were being stomped. However, there were absolutely no originzation. After about 3 minutes of dying constantly, I personally started an Ops group and invited everyone standing around me.
Low and behold, none of them were grouped up. After getting about 16 people I started posting in General Chat: "PST for Invite to Ilum Ops group".
After about 15 minutes of struggling to get out of our base, and 24 members in the Ops group, we eventually led one great push and were able to leave our base and push the Imperials back to the south objective.
Eventually we had them on the run. It was about 30 of us versus about 50 Imps but against the odds we held our own and capped all three objectives.
This is the second night (pre-nerf we did the same thing!) that I've had such a blast in Ilum. I never even stepped foot into Ilum prior to the patch. I hear it was easy.
Easy is boring.
I love Ilum PVP!