Originally Posted by Aadar
[Idol of Feral Shadows] comes out as the second best Idol for dps on my rawr (albeit a long way behind the [Idol of Worship] from Naxx), and as it drops off the first boss in Arcatraz, with some shadow resist gear you could probably solo it at level 80. You could definitely duo it, and as it drops on normal you could run it over and over until it drops.
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Mine (2.1.9) shows
[Idol of the White Stag] as the second. It also lists
[Idol of the Ravenous Beast] as being worth 0 DPS, and doesn't even show
[Idol of the Wastes]. 2.2.0b3 only lists worship, beast, and
[Idol of Terror]. (Still good for fights like Thaddius where you're stuck in front most of the time and you don't have worship. Plainstalker is just a lesser version of this.)
Idols have always been situationally useful, which makes their worth subjective. Emmerald doesn't even have them in his gear lists. Regardless of Rawr's opinions on idols, I still think it would be less than recommended for a cat who did not already have that idol to go farming an Outland instance for it. There are much more productive things, and more important gear, to be working on. Sporting a low ilevel level 70 idol is going to put a pre-raid druid in the position of having to defend his choice, too. It could be easily defended, but if people are just glancing over gear lists, who knows if he'll get the chance?
I think level 70 items (idols, T6, badge weapons) could be listed as possible options for those that already have them, but there would be nothing wrong with
[Idol of the Wastes], for example, if
[Idol of the Ravenous Beast] somehow couldn't be afforded. 134.2 AP scaling with buffs is nothing to sneeze at, since it would improve all attacks. But if we're sticking with blues and purples then the only serious option is beast, especially since it's so easily obtainable.