Sarcasm and hilarity aside, we aren't trying to be small minded here, we speak from experience.
A prot pally works off of "reactive damage". You may already know this, but I'll explain. When someone hits you with a melee attack, they automatically get hit with damage back. You won't see the majority of this dmg until you're level 40, but that's the way prot pallies work.
Now if you're in a big AV group and there are tons of people everywhere and a rogue starts bashing on you and they notice your health isn't moving and theirs is going down with each strike; a smart Rogue won't continue killing themselves on you. They go find a warlock to kill. Like I said previously, some people will let you "tank them" in PvP, but the smart ones won't.
Second, in every piece of Arena or HWL gear there is ZERO peices of gear for prot pallies as far as armor goes. Take a look at this:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/items/armorsets/
There is a set for Healing, Ret and Shockadin Pallies. Nothing for prot. Bear druids, prot pallies and prot warriors don't have much place in PvP.
Lastly, as a prot pally you're very vulnerable to magic. At 70, anyone who uses spells(unless they're completely horrible at PvP) will be able to beat you. When hit with melee, we do tons of dmg back, but when hit with spells we do ZERO dmg back. We lack movement, stuns, interrupts, silences, active dmg or anything that lets you pwn a caster. Killing a caster in a 1v1 fight is an uphill battle that ends with their wand up your pootooty.
We don't say this to discourage you(not that much anywayz), and we don't say this because we don't know any better. We say this because we know, and have been through the hoops.
Edited, Dec 29th 2007 3:59pm by TacticalRage