Doing PvE to PvP -- help me out

[Gnog 1]

To the warrior brain trust:

I rolled a gnome warrior on Elysium PvP primarily to PvP.  I also leveled a mage (L59 now) for farming. I'm hoping you can give some thoughts on how to focus my efforts between PvE and PvP. 

First a few details. For lots of reasons, I primarily want to PvP. But I also enjoy PvE, and I wouldn't mind raiding. I enjoy tanking, too, and I think I do it competently, whether in group or raid settings, although I'm not as attached to tanking as some raid tanks out there (you know the type). 

So a few questions. 

Assuming I cannot reach R12 or higher in PvP, is the best gear for PvP obtained through PvE? And how does that change over the upcoming timeline on Elysium? 

Would you say that, to be competitive in PvP (in terms of being viable in games, not rank grinding), the items from raiding (MC, BWL, AQ) become more and more important as the server progresses? In other words, if I don't get raid gear and I don't get R12, do I fall further and further behind in gear as Elysium progresses to BWL and beyond?

Lastly, assuming I do indeed need to raid to get the best gear for PvP, how do you think I should go about it? I need to be MS spec for PvP. But (I assume) no good raiding guild will want me to raid in MS spec, if they even allow it at all. Then there is also the issue of gear selection. Obviously the BiS set for Prot, Fury, and PvP are markedly different (although with some overlap). 

In terms of my current gear progression, I have some decent pre-raid gear for all specs. But I have plenty of room to improve through pre-raid 60 dungeons and I'm definitely at a point of needing to focus my time and make a decision about raid spec (assuming I need to raid, see above). 

Your thoughts on how best to approach gearing/spec'ing would be appreciated. My tentative plan is to spend the next few weeks tanking 5/10-man to gather as much BiS as possible for all specs, and then respec between MS and fury each week for raids. But damn, that's a lot of respec costs. I have the mage, so that helps for farming, but still. Are there any other viable options? 

Thanks!

[Storfan 24]

To successfully Rank past 11-12 you'll need to be going with premades on the regular, I'm talking hours and hours and HOURS EVERY day. To reach Rank 13/14 you'll probably need to completely stop raiding and do nothing but PvP for 8-12h every day of the week for months. Many top premades will often require you to be geared aswell with the best PvE gear available to your current patch so a BRE will serve you well.

[vido 1]

You can top meters in MS spec if you have a BRE and know how to use slam and handle execute phase with a slow 2h and no flurry. I think storfan was in that endzeit raid I helped out in with my pvp spec.

The best approach imo is to tank and get dibs on stamina offparts, lifegiving gem, t2.5.

For the regular joe though, raid in fury spec and try to come up with some dumb excuses to get your hands on the cool pvp stuff.