(this entire post is about a possible scenario on the Fresh PVP Server launching in January)
Please forgive me shall this not be the correct place to consult with my question, however I feel that it belongs here out of all places.
First of all I gotta admit that I never played Vanilla aside from leveling to the 40s on old Nost once. I started playing the game during very early TBC and was an Arenajunkie all the way to wotlk, therefore my main focus while playing on Nostalrius will be PVP too (though I am aware of the fact that the experience will differ greatly from TBC/wotlk era Arenas).
However to my understanding there will be no "dedicated" PVP equipment till fairly late into the patches and up to that point most people just use regular PVE gear for doing PVP.
Lets say I don't want to raid at all, I get the BiS Pre-Raid gear (maybe even skill tailoring for it, before switching to Engineer after) and enchant it as good as I possibly can - will I still be able to hold out against most other players that are rocking PVE sets or is it a basically unbeatable advantage?
I will most likely be rolling a mage, shall that hold any importance.
Thank you for any help!