I actually had forgotten about the legs which I did initially because of the lesser cost and was able to get two items instead of one at the time, now I have a ton of badges so I will definitely pick up those legs. I am working through my gems to upgrade to epics, just been a bit tight with gold lol.
The reason for some of my gemming was that I read somewhere that pallies get benefit from parry but I suppose the point here would be to max on stamina before considering other gems once I have hit the 545 defense threshold.