As a gwf i use lvl 60 pure piercing gear blue gear for pvp instead of purple since i really haven't found a pure piercing purple set (closest thing i can thing of is the heroic set but even that is not pure ap, and since gearscore is useless in pvp since you can enter it regardless of your gs might aswell, sure you miss…
There's also no endgame for soloist's (unless you count foundry as "endgame" for them). Wouldn't mind a solo version of epic dungeon's or just dungeons in a similar structure that the story quest dungeon's were setup while you were leveling to the cap. Put in lowered drop rate for epic gear and some some other compromises…
I don't know id probably rank it above t1, it would probably be anywhere from t1.5 to t1.8 (if such a sub tier would exist, scratch what i previously said pvp gear is borderline t2 tier). The pvp weapons are so good they are almost at t2 rank. I know i won't be farming the t2 weapon's for a miniscule 11 higher weapon…
I don't know about that, For my gwf atleast the pvp set is very good (although this depends on what you specced in your feats) that def helps to transfer some of that into power, and the crit helps me gain that 45% defense debuff that much more likely and faster, id rather have it than some of the t2 items (though that…