I would advise EVERYONE to start off as a warrior and immediately grind STR to 30 and buy all 4 str boosters.
If you want to be a skirmished just use a 1-handed weapon. It will be slower but you get dex out of it.

Once you have STR up by 10 start using staff bolt or archery to give yourself a bit of range. Skirmisher vs Warrior is an even trade damage wise with bows, regardless of dex due to damage mitigation, but skirmishers has bow powers that can fuck up anyone. Salvo appears to be totally broken. its AOE is about the size of a surging toxic rain, disables sprint, ticks for 15 damage and 6 stam X 8 ticks at level one!

I will post more on skirms later. But the point is, if you want to get PVP viable ASAP, grind str, buy the boosters, then work on ranged.

We also all need to agree on a 2H weapon so post your preference

KGB Darkfall