New(ish) PvP'er looking for help and guidance

Hello,

This will probably be a long post, I'll TL;DR at the end, however, I do hope it is read by some so hopefully I can get the help I am looking for.

I have been playing on & off since a couple of months after launch and have played many MMO's over the years. During all that time, I have been almost exclusively a PvE'er, rarely dabbling in PvP/WZ's for something 'different'. I've never been particularly good at it, so I never really stuck with it. I've done more in Swtor more than any other MMO, however, and after pretty much exhausting all the available PvE content - quite literally, ALL OF IT, on multiple toons - I am ready to move on and make PvP a focus, instead of something to do... on the side, if you will.

I have one of almost every AC (in some cases, multiples), except PT, Sage and VG (tried the VG, eyes started bleeding from the boredom, mainly from the animations, they just seem so... sterile), and I mainly play Imp toons, as that's where I started. I started getting more into PvP recently, mainly because a good friend started leveling a 'sin tank a while back, and I had a sorc healer I hadn't done much with at the time, so we started playing together and leveling those toons. We got bored one night and just decided to run some WZ's, again, for something different. Maybe it was because I was playing w/ a friend, maybe it was just because we made a good team - I'm sure I don't have to tell you more experienced folks that a tank + healer guarding a node can be a tough nut to crack - but I had more fun that evening than I had in a long time. So I stuck with it. I still mainly PvE'd on my other toons, but when he was on, and sometimes even when he wasn't, I was PvP'ing w/ my sorc healer. I also had a deception 'sin I hadn't done anything with, so I started doing PvP w/ him as well. Again, this still wasn't my main focus and after a while it faded.

Some of my guild came back, we even got some new folks, so I started running the group content again with them. Sadly, almost as quickly as that picked up, it died, so I was back to solo running, doing GF FP's, leveling other, neglected toons, etc. But now, I think I've reached the end of the rope for PvE stuff. I have a couple of pub toons I want to hit 65 with, just for the 'Legendary Player' title (yes, I know it means **** all, but I want it), but I want to focus on PvP now. Problem is - I'm HORRIBLE at it. I do pretty well with my Sorc healer, but I don't kid myself, I know that's mostly because of the class, more than me, but I did run mostly healers in PvE so it is a discipline I am pretty familiar with.

I have a MM Sniper, my Deception 'sin, my Sorc and last night I used my lvl 60 token to create a Concealment Op for PvP (probably not the best idea, but w/e, as I said, I'm horrible anyway, lol). My sniper and sorc are 65 and in tier 1 endgame PvP gear (Sniper isn't aug'd yet, still farming mats for those), but my sorc is fully decked out with augs and all. I've watched some video's, read the available guides for the classes I'm PvP'ing with - though I have noticed there really isn't one for a 4.x Concealment Op on Dulfy, what little info is out there is on Reddit after I found it via Google searching. Video's are nice, but without being able to see the abilities they use, unless you're staring at their ability bar, it's hard to glean much info, other than that most of those people are straight-up bad-asses. The guides have been nice for ability point distributions and the what/why/how to use abilities, but they are hard to put into practical application.

I guess what I'm looking for is a place, or a group of people to meet up with, maybe even a PVP focused guild, on The Harbinger server, where I can get some solid, in-game, help and training. I realize I'm still fairly new to this, and that with time I will better myself, but when you're constantly in solo queue, it's hard to 'push on' when I'm getting obliterated regularly and coming in middle of the pack (or lower) on the final results screen at the end of the match. I've never really been called out for being a 'bad', but I don't I also know that if everyone on the team isn't playing their best and -really- contributing, chances of a win are lower, unless you have folks that can carry the team - which is unfair to them. I'm not necessarily looking to become a PvP God (though who doesn't want to be the best?), but I would like to be in a place where I am a solid contributor. Possibly even getting into the ranked WZ's.

TL;DR: Bored PvE'er looking to move into the PvP scene, and looking for patient, willing and helpful folks to train and show me the ropes, so I can stop looking like a newbie and dragging the team down.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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