WoW also has leveling. You want to get to level 90? You better spend the time to get there because the vets you seen running around did just fucking that.
WoW also has gear rolls, and you may not get what you need most all the time. Play more and loot more and you'll eventually get there.
Basically, what we are doing here is really just compiling up a leveling guide and hope people who need it would pass by and see it. I'm sure you don't type out a whole dungeon run-through in WoW team chat either.
And if you really want to get to the level some other players are at, work for it.

The default/starting loadout isn't bad though. For a Tac you get a frag bundle, ammo kit (medkit woulda been better, no noobie is going to live long enough to use an ammo kit), a Bolter, and some armor/stamina regen gear. The only thing a new player will come up short from, is a lack of durability items. I've used the default loadouts, they're perfectly capable loadouts, it isn't like they're gimped into uselessness. The main problem is the lack of an AV preset, but that's really it.

I believe one of the biggest advantages of the SM-faction are the stimulances of the Apothicary(melee or defensive buff) which almost nobody uses. If two Apothicaries would buff a their squad with these their power almost doubles! I hope they will make a beacon with those buffs to drop so they will be used more often.

I wish the buffs had an indicator or icon to let people know it was active, the survival one is pretty hard to see when in effect compared to the blue circle people have from the melee one.