Yeah, the +hit is pretty nice, but its just missing the crit on it, which can be made up with gem's. I just think the plate gear looks hideous, but I do like some of the other BoJ items.
Running ZA can warrant 14 BoJ's every 3 days. The two mini bosses in Heroic meech no longer drop a BoJ, but the chest thing that you can open with the crystal fragments will drop a BoJ for everyone, so thats 4 from mech, plus all the others.
Make sure you take the daily Heroic quest in Shat, lower city. That will get you an extra 2 Badges. We did Heroic Underbog last night and after quests I walked away with 6x badges. I'm up to about 16 of them now and have my eyes on the tanking pants.