If you’re starting out however, its hard to say depending on how much time you have. Legs and Bracers are probably best simply because they strike a good balance between survivability and threat. They’re also not suffering from weird stat deficiencies that force you to wear another piece of gear that you would otherwise try to avoid (ex Adamantine Figure). In the end, the Brooch, Gloves and Autoblocker are utility pieces for threat.

Avoidance does a lot more than avoid crushings, especially as you stack it higher. You start to see exponential returns on incoming damage reduction. I’ve always been a big fan of stacking absurd amounts of armour, but as we move into harder T6 content, avoidance really starts to pay off.

From your standpoint Trarr, I’d say focus on improving your stam first. The way I always looked at my gear was “what slot could use the BIGGEST improvement.” The brooch and bracers are great upgrades for threat generation. The Auto-blocker, like Vene has said, is kind of obsolete now. If you get the neck, bracers, and gloves, you can replace your auto-blocker with a defense trinket to make up for what you’ve lost in that department.

My vote:
1. Legs
2. Neck
3. Bracers (if you have attumen’s, you may want to get the cloak instead)

but thats alot of badges, having a more regular weekly karazhan raid going makes it easier to get that many, unless you like doing 2-4 heroics a day to keep that consistency, I personally do karazhan every week and do one or two heroics a day..but I’ve already acquired all the badge items except for the auto-blocker which isnt really a rush for me since I’m having no issues with threat or tanking anything I’m doing at this time at my tanking level.