I've never understood this "need to get pvp gear" thing. Until very recently I've been almost purely PvE. Got to 28 just fine, had decent gear, decent weapons. Everything was great. IB changed things for me a bit and I've been doing a lot more PvP recently (starting to enjoy it more as I get better at it), but I didn't have to. Nothing PvE bar the hard mode raid requires you to be over level 28 right now, and lets face it if your doing hard mode raid you've done normal mode and are probably a 30 already with raid weapons. Is the PvP faction gear really so much better than everything else that you have to have it to play the PvE game?