On mmo-champ forum someone mentioned they "fixed" Sapphiron's frost aura interaction with pets. Can anyone confirm pets are not taking damage anymore?

I checked the patch notes for Doomguard summoning, but I am still a bit confused.

As far as I can tell, the two ways to summon Doomguard is to either use the Ritual of Doom spell, which requires participants, or if your Curse of Doom spell ends up killing a mob that gives xp or honor.

So how are people bringing out the Doomguard in the middle of a boss fight? Or do you get the Doomguard out first before the fight starts? I found a post on wowhead saying that it comes enslaved for 15 min despite what the tooltip says. Is that true? Can you still do Darkpact with the Doomguard out?

You get it out before the fight starts - it comes with an unbreakable ritual enslavement that lasts for 15 minutes and causes zero attack speed penalty. I don't know about dark pact, but you shouldn't be putting a point into that in a PvE spec anyway.

The only problem can be getting enough people to click on your doom portal quickly enough - picture 3-4 affliction locks all begging for 4 clickers each while raid leaders are impatient to pull Patchwerk.

Confirmed.
The only damage to imp and infernal came from Saph's blizzard last night.


I'd go with the 4T7 and look which slot gets the best non-set upgrade when you got the headpiece as well.
A thorough debate on the topic can be found here

I was suprised that the Imp doesn't even seem to get touched by the Deep Breath anymore.

They never did.

I use Quartz for the cast bar latency/drain soul ticks and DoTimer for keeping track of my dots. Is there a way to turn off the dot tracking portion of Quartz?

Doesn't Quartz only show the timers for your current target?

Yes. This tackles 95% of boss fights. Multi-dotting isn't as great as it used to be since we gain so many multipliers from continued pressure on a single target. Also the other 5% of fights where you could reasonably be attacking multiple targets generally don't stay alive long enough to care about debuff lengths. The only fight where you could really use it, you don't want to because you need to burn the drakes as fast as possible. To each his own though, it was just a suggestion.

I have a quick question about COA vs COE and overall damage. In a fight where there is no COE like debuff up (no unholy DK or Boomkin) if i opt to use COA will my personal dps be higher then if i used the non-damage curse COE?

i know that raid dps will be higher with COE but i was under the impression that me using COA (glyphed) would result in higher personal dps then COE. Is COE a flat 13% dps boost?

That's a bit misleading.
To put it clear:
If there is no CoE type debuff on the mob, CoE outperforms CoA in any case.