According to my observations, the overall PvP standard did rise so much in the last days. There are zero afk people and even the fresh 50s suddenly seem to know, what their job is in the warzones -> Many, many close matches -> muuch fun
Getting the Recruit set by credits allows anybody to be competitive without the huge gap there was for a fresh lvl 50 a week ago.
In fact, the recruit gear is equivalent to the Champion gear atm, but will fall to Centurion level in some weeks, when most people are War Hero-equipped.
With all the new medals, even green geared people will get 4-6, if they do the slightest bit to help the team achieve the victory, what they can!!
The old medal system was very gear dependent, which has changed completely.
No PvE guy would ever demand getting 90% of the reward of clearing a operation for just staying in there for 15 minutes.
So what's wrong with you PvPers?
Thanks Bioware, great job!