Galeas you did a good step in the right direction by lowering the amount of the hero quests per week from 18/25 to 14/25 but sadly this is not a reason to do them. 6 months per one piece of gear or 6 months for one glowing odian which on broker costs 100 000 000 kinah. It just does not worth the efforts. Lowering the amount of pvp quests per map wont make the maps alive.
Also it will be good if people could get restoration stones.
About the transformation fragments please consider putting them in the shugo vending machine and bringing the shugo which was selling the fragments for battlefield coins just change the currency from battlefield coins to insignia of experience.
PVP on APSA map is now dissater, almost not posiible to make any Q there without some zerg from asmo side... so i dont think there is lower PVP