I believe season 2 will not take any kind of rating.  And if you look at the gear you can get from just season 2, you can get [item]Merciless Gladiator's Bonegrinder[/item]  which if you look at, is very close to [item]Stormherald[/item], which takes primal vortexes that come from SSC.  With maybe a months work like an hour a week you can have a weapon with 7 more dps than anything that comes from Kara.  

Even just honor will get you gear that is about Kara level now.