My opinion is that it is not neccesary to make specific gear, rather balancing the two to make it viable for a PvP char to do PVE and vice-versa w/o swapping
or starting from scratch. Is there any info on this and how exactly will PvE and PvE co-exist in the game?

From what i heard will be only one gear that will fit for pve and pvp, because having 2 gears would separate pve and pvp players, like on the others mmos...