Equipment is very helpful, especially ones from EE, event, or the higher tier ebs. For your size, there are only a few ebs that u can hit that drop equipment. Just keep growing and collecting any equipment you can. The lowest tier eb that will drop an equip u don't have is no mans land.
Equipment is helpful in pvp/ebs/ee wars alike. The equip you likely want first are weapon/off hand as they generally provide the highest offensive stats.
Perfectly answered, op please use the question thread now on when asking for questions thanks instead of posting these up, I will be locking all your answered threads now. /lock