To add to this, there’s no way to get to 197 until you get your renown up nor will you have anywhere near enough honor to upgrade to 197 anyway since it’s a 15K cap.
Research the campaign quest pieces to see which ones have vers, and then plan based on that. Neck, rings, trinkets are all important pieces that your campaign won’t help with though you can buy a cheap vers neck on the AH at like 168 ilevel which is good to start with anyway.
Do some world boss, any other events, and fill in, etc. while power doing the campaign quest.
Of course if you have some buddies who are glads or some free invites to RBG winning groups, you have an edge like some of our forum heroes but I suppose not everyone will have that.