Return of Reckoning

Okay, I'm starting to get it. So the gear I'm wearing is a collection of Influence rewards, quest rewards, and RvR rewards (medallions). You're saying that I'm always going to get spanked by guys wearing blue/purple gear that they've gathered over time and thrown onto their twink which then gets ...

No, I've just started playing so I have what gear I've been able to cobble together from quests or medallions from the RvR lakes. I've not yet done any scenarios so I haven't earned any emblems yet to get the emblem gear.

I guess I don't understand the details of how bolstering works, then. I ...

Yeah, I'm seeing the same kind of stuff in multiple scenarios so I still feel like I'm missing some stuff. I ran across a Black Orc earlier who conned level 15 to me when I was 10+7. He never self-healed, he just ground me down like I was nothing. Again, I did maybe 20% of his health by the time I ...

Okay, cool, I appreciate all the responses.

And I get that I may well have lost due to being out-geared and he may have had tactics that I don't get yet, and a variety of other factors.

But here's the part I still don't understand: in the time it took me to do approximately 10% of his health ...

What do you mean by bolster and toolkits? That doesn't explain much.

I just recently started here, got an Ironbreaker at level 9, was tooling around Mount Bloodhorn. I engaged a Marauder. I was level 17 (9+8). He was also level 17. I figure as a tank, I have a decent chance of toughing it out and grinding him down.

He spanked me in nothing flat. I think I managed to ...