this is gonna be a GW2 2.0, and we all know what happened with gw, atleast from pvp pov... Im with the poster couple of posts above, IMO like in every good pvp game, you got to do the dirty loundry at first, blood, tears and sweat to get your good gear. Not just handing them over, so new comers won't get rolled so hard.
EDIT: and since no one has exact values of how pve gear will work in pvp, im not gonna go into that, but if it's possible to be decent in pvp with pve gear it just ruins everything, bioware should recruit few guys from blizzard to get some lessons of how to create a good all around game.