I'm a Prot Paladin in pvp and here's what I think.
Prot with full pvp gear. Kinda meh. You lack alot of damage and survivability.
Prot with full pve gear in Ashran/world PVP. You are extremely OP thanks to your Tank ring and Class trinket.
Prot with mix PvP/PvE gear in battlegrounds. You are OP despite not being able to use tank ring and class trinket. Here's how you want it to work:
- Stack Mastery (Gives attack power and Block %)
- Get PvE 2/4 Set Bonus (Significantly better than PvP Set Bonus)
- Get PvE/PvP jewelry with mastery+Bonus Armor only
- Be lucky with getting accolade trinket (Either Mastery or Versatility+Bonus Armor)
- Use Holy Shield talent (VERY IMPORTANT!)
- Use Holy Avenger talent (Works amazing with PvE Set Bonus to survive or to add pressure)
Great Job you are now the equivelant of a Thorn Crusader from Diablo 3 able to deal decent damage, reflect most of that damage thanks to your amazing block % + Holy Shield, have infinite dazes and infinite interrupts at times. If you are being targetted it furthers adds your survivability and damage because of your PvE Set Bonusses. You are very much immortal in a 1v1 situation and you are capable to win in even 1v3+ situations because they feed you Avenger Shield procs. Just avoid healers though, either try to be a nuisance and interrupt spam them to death or burst their teammates that clump together.
Just look at the damage and healing i'm pulling in most battlegrounds.
http://imgur.com/a/i75Vv
PS: PvE Set Bonus doesn't work in rated PvP making them useless there.