How about this idea for pets..
You have an amazing imagination i am jealous! 3 spirits + 1 AI + 1 AI ally[howl of the pack] + 1 [Ogre pet whistle] + [Hounds of Balthazar] = We already have a stable full of pets:3
if anyone wants to keep their pet alive they could easily invest 30 points in beast mastery I promise it wont hurt at all to give your pet + 300 power, precision, toughness, vitality + 20 % faster pet swapping
The biggest problem is the mentality of a few rangers who think that training for beast mastery will do them no good, but when their pets keep dying they complain. complaining about that is basically like complaining that you died because you have no toughness/ vitality on at all.
Currently rangers are overpowered with their pets alive, and under powered with their pets downed… So having your pet down is all a part of the conspiracy of Anet to keep us in the middle of over powered / under powered sadly…
An elite skill could also be brought from this where your entire stable comes to fight for you for “x” amount of time.
Like something that was removed from the game Alpha Strike