Originally Posted by
Niberion
It's not a bad choice, but since you are already that squishy and you know you'll get focused, going with a 3 minute cooldown and the inability to use your silence while cc'ed is going to make it harder to survive. Besides, there's little gain from GoSac if you are unable to free cast a lot since it doesn't affect the damage of your dots.
I'm sure people can make GoSac + Dark Bargain work as affliction, but with the Fel Armor nerf and the new old Soul Link, I feel like GoSup +SL/SacPact is a lot safer to play. And you completely have a point that SacPact/SL would be rather useless if your pet is dead, but that's what you have a healer + pet management for. Your pet shouldn't be dying unless the other team is focusing on it, which means you can free cast and do whatever.