You need 600 gs gear to be competative in pvp. The scaling will make you weak and squishy if your GS is low.
I recommend buy cheap purple 600 GS gear on marketplace. You will be at 570 gs i believe.
Then just spam dungeons, chest runs, get gypsum casts. And start leveling your expertise to 600.
It takes 1-2 weeks to go from 500-600 gs. Untill you reach 600 gs pvp is going to suck.
And a tank in pvp always sucks.
Tanks is pretty bad if you are sns/x so i would reccomed having a diffent build.
If you still want to tank best is bb/ig or bb/vg
There is no hidden scaling tied to Expertise Jiggy.
You can tank with different weapons, you don’t need exclusively SnS, I in the PTR am uploading a full revitalized character and heavy armor with rapier/BB.
How can that be true? Even players 550gs get hit like crazy vs a 600+
I feel like I’m ganking a lvl 10 when i meet someone who isn’t 600 gs
Thats because these people usually don’t wear PvP gear with PvP perks, don’t have gems etc.
He is just another troll…
you are not at end game yet
now you have to lvl your other weapons
also your trading skills
buy your 3 houses
get your trophies
get your crafting gear…
list goes on
i have 2k+ hour in this game im still missing ancient trophies
so gl ^^
thanks for the answer, and as for the equipment, what is the most profitable to have heavy, light or medium pvp?
Go medium untill u reach 600. If u want to do pvp you need resilient on all 5 pieces.
But tbh you’re gonna be weak and useless in pvp no matter what you do untill you hit 600. So i would focus on the PvE gri d for a week or 2
in my opinion, the endgame is to unlock all modes and possibilities of the game and this is lvl 60, but from what I can see only 600GS is a complete end that allows for fun. 
We have been saying the same thing for a long time, it is better that they make climbing to lvl 60 more difficult than having to raise the equipment later, it does not make any sense, especially in a server that is already advanced.
it’s still a question what is the matter with the equipment or the items that I get, I have to change if you can improve their GS through some mechanics, I ask because I heard about something like this, for example, I have a nice purple Item can I play with it until the end or I have to replace it every time I get it a better GS, for example, if it turns into a legendary GS and conquers it (I’ve heard about something like that, but I prefer to make sure that I’m not mistaken)
Only the GS590+ equipment will serve you later. Any gear dropped before you reach GS600 will be of no use as it cannot be upgraded with the threshold system.
Right? I remember jumping in OPR as a fresh as fuck 60 criting some thick boys with a bow for like 400 
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It would go Ready. Aim. plink …“uh oh”.
Yeah man. There’s no way there isn’t any scaling.
I’ll hop on later with 550 gear and see how much dmg i do
this is probably the best answer that answers the question one that the game will start at 600g and until then there is no point in playing larger purchases ty a lot💪
Start shopping for 590+ gear. Do some research on what perks you’ll want based on what kind of content you want to do. (want to do pvp, get resilience and shirking fortification, want to grind dungeons, get some ancient ward/refreshing gear so you can start doing lazarus). The gear will average with your expertise, so if you are 500gs and buy a 600gs weapon, it will average to 550gs. It will gradually increase along with your gs.
Start joining “world tours” “zergs” “trains”, whatever your server calls it. It’s just a large mob of players running through elite zones opening chests. When I did this grind many months ago, this was giving me 20+ increases from just a few zones.
Do your gypsum casts to bump your gs on specific items of your choice.
That should get you started. There’s a whole new to do list once your gs is 600+.
To answer your specific questions…
I wouldn’t advise tanking outside of PVE. I finally gave it up recently and am doing much better with medium, and have a light build too.
Don’t bother with PVP until you’re 600gs, I just feel bad for people I face in arenas with 550gs.
There’s a lot of good drops, but you can’t get them at high level yet so for now just buy 590+ gear. Once you hit 600 you can figure out where you can farm some really good gear for free.
Tanks are a rare breed in PVE so they are really in demand for mutations, so if you like this style you should keep it. Tank SnS on pvp is more niche but metas might change soon and we might see more SnS tank in the future for wars
SwordShield/Spear is ruthless in PvP.