Yeahh.. you definitely don't need boots. Azortharion is proof of that. He has multiple 100th percentiles without boots.
Yeah boots are nice, and are the best of mms legendarys, but it really isn't that big. You can easily parse 99th percentile without boots, if you play corrently.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/ranking...052609/latest/
He doesn't upload many of his logs, but there's a few.