I'll say it again, lower levels CAN be effective. If you think you cannot PVP at lower levels you are missing out on some fun. Yes, higher leveled characters can and will stomp you when they can, but if you expect it, learn from it, and make adjustments you can be effective and useful.

Use your PVP tutorial points and a few hundred spare coins and buy some siege engines.

• Trebuchets are big and slow but you can set them up away from the edge of a castle's battlement and get a great birds eye view of where to place your shot while being protected to some extent from bad guys who cannot see you very well.
• Catapults can fire the instant they are set up. Use that to your advantage. See a group of bad guys fighting one or two people on your side, drop a catapult and set the bad guys on fire. Keep firing it if you feel safe, or pick it up and move around looking for another opportunity. They fire fast but experienced players learn to get out of the red circle of your area affect... so plan on that. Shoot where they are going. Shoot when they are distracted. Shoot inside the door your side just busted down to give your side a relatively clear path to enter the building.
• Oil can be used on flat ground or from a higher position which gives you a good bit of protection. Either way, it is a slow weapon to engage but the results are great if you can live long enough to use it several times.

If you are a melee character my only advice is to not try to solo. Find a group and stick to them like glue. Become a pack member and run with the pack. You are not a leech when you attack the target everyone else is attacking. You are part of the cure to eradicate a virus. (Yes, cliche, I know)

If you are a ranged character, watch the experienced ranged characters and do what they do. You are the closer of a fight. When melee's are pounding on each other you are there to drop extra damage onto the bad guy to make the fight shorter, so the melees can find other victims.

If a healer, keep moving around but stay in the pack. Do not stand still. You need to get good at casting your area affect healing spell as you move. The bad guys are going to target you and if you stay in one place it will help them. Have fun outracing those red circles of death from the enemy defender's siege weapons. Keep in mind that the people manning your side's siege weapons need your healing. They are getting burned to death... they need your healing.

I play a Sorcerer. I make a couple of levels then go PVP as a reward to myself. I started PVP slowly but have learned a lot by watching everyone else.

Destruction staff: curse, area affect root, lightning bolt, area affect fire, electrical armor with ultimate - big lightning dude.

Restoration staff: singe target debuf, single target fighter's guild silver bolt, area affect health regen, multiple target health regen... and something else, with ultimate - big lightning dude.

What can I do as a low leveled PVP player? Well, I sit around and wait for people to attack the keep I chose, armed with every type of siege weapon they sell. I also watch for large groups and follow them where I partake in the glory of capturing mines, farms, castles and scrolls... and I have a blast doing it.

Just last night I...:

1. Learned not to stand at the edge of a battlement above the enemies heads. A Dragonknight speared me and pulled me to the ground where she and her friends beat me to death.
2. Disrupted a gank squad beating on some guys by dropping some flaming arrows on their butts! That's right!! I have a ballista and I'm not afraid to use it!!
3. Hunted stealthy bad guys with my glowing ion stone of see stuff. (with a lot of people of course)
4. Stamped DEAD on people with my crack-a-doom lighting bolt. That's right higher level Sorcerer dude... I have a LOT of magic resistance. hahahaha Eat dirt!
5. Giggled hysterically as my ultimate stone lighting dude made a bunch of bad guys scurry for cover like cockroaches
6. Helped escort a skeletal scroll carrier who ran into an ambush of bad guys. I jumped off my horse in the middle of them and started spamming my area affect root until my magika was gone and I was dead. But guess what, the scroll carrier escaped!
7. I dropped oil on invaders breaking down the inner door of a keep. They had to stop using their ram and break the door down with siege equipment from a safer distance. This normally would have given the good guys a chance to arrive and disrupt their attack but... there was no cavalry at that time.
8. I successfully turned and looked at the stealthy people who attacked and killed me. When I first started I couldn't even turn around. Hell, I even hit a button or two before I died. Now that's progress!
9. Have come to love healing. There's nothing better than healing someone on my side that was going down fast to an attacker but with extra health was able to defeat their attacker. I even got a whisper saying thank you!!!

So, final words... expect to die. Expect to make the trek back to the battle over and over. You are a low level and the veteran ranks can eat you for lunch. BUT, that doesn't stop you from participating, adding to the battle, and most definitely having fun. You WILL have fun, I promise. Watch the pro's at work. Copy their tactics and move with them. Feed your damn horse some apples!! You need a fast horse. Come have fun!