I would like to say that you should really pvp a lot for gear. It will take a little while to get the right gear to drop from the bags but its worth it. Yes, it is mainly for pvp, but with a full set you come out with 7.2k armor and about 18k hp and damage reduction of like 49% if i remember right (not on the comp with swtor). Its great for starting out and you can replace it with columi gear later on. Tioniese or whatever it is is completely worthless because you can do dailies to get better stuff.

Nope. We killed the last boss (which is incredibly easy in comparison) and tried him one more time but it would not let us back in after we died. We figured out that the spawns are on a timer and that you should spread them out if you can. Have the tank hold 2 of them while everyone else dps's the other and so on. Its pretty much a dps battle but we couldn't handle it with everyone geared to the max. We got him to about 33% when the second spawn came but our healer was out of focus. Someone who can cc robots and range dps would really help in this fight.

I don't see what the problem is. As one of the top 2 tanks on my server as you claim to be, the HM FP are extremely easy. I'm a 50 guardian and the imp/rep ratio is 5:1 on my server and yet we can still pvp, not as much as we would like to now because there are far less people to play with, yet we can still pvp and there is Ilum to pvp in now. If you were actually the top tank then you would at least have partial gear as I already have full pvp gear which makes FP easy as hell. My guild has run the new FP on HM right away and we don't have any problems except that dumb robot boss. Stop qqing and learn how to play your class.