The trash drops are also ridiculously low, I've run 3 wings of kara on 2 chars for 2-3 weeks now and seen, I think, 2 trash drops in 10+ hours of inside the instance.

Keep in mind however that the 25 man version does drop BoE epics off bosses, so imo you are better off just farming gold and buying the epics when they get to reasonable prices in AH. The tanking boots recently were on the AH for 2k gold on my server, which is a crazy great price for the best tank plate boots a pally can get -- fortunately they dropped in one of my naxx25 runs and my pally got it for free