I'm going to be honest here. On the whole gear situation... i complained a lot about it to. "REMOVE EXPERTISE!" I said. Meanwhile as I worked through the tears I climbed up to 1300 expertise and now I am on par with if not better geared than most of the people I PVP with, and I can honestly say I'd probably be a little pissy if they removed expertise now after all the suffering I did. You just need to fight your way to that better gear, get over that initial barrier of entry into PVP and then it's a blast.