In the lower brackets you should indeed be gemming for stam and resil, once you get you hp up to about 9-10k and your resil to about 260-300 then you start gemming spelldmg+spellcrit or spelldmg+mana etc.

That just my suggestion.

Also what you should do to start off, is bild up 2 peices of the BLUE pvp gear (for the +32 resil bonus), then start collecting S1, once you have all the season1 gear you can get before replacing your two blue items, I suggest farming for vindicator gear.

So you should look something like this:

Gloves and Head: Blue pvp (from faction rewards)

Shoulder, Chest, Leggs: Season1 (Or seasontwo when it comes out)

Neck, braces, rings, trinket, boots, cloak: Vindicator nd badge rewards.

Shield and mace: Season1

Once you have all of that you should have 10k+ hp, 6k+ mana, 300 resil+ (purely out of gear, not including gems) Then you gem +spelldmg and spellcrit and maybe int too. Get the leg enchant from the AH, +20 resil and 18 stam enchant from SSO enchanter to head, scryer or aldor shoulder enchant etc.

Once you get all that you can start gemming for
I won't be upgrading my gear until season 4 comes out. I am pretty sure it is right around the corner, and so id much rather spend my honor points on season2 weapon/shield and season4 honor pieces, than s1 weapon/shield, and s3 honor pieces.

Just my personal preference. I'd rather get the most "bang for the buck" with the honor pieces i am going to buy.