Guild Wars 2

…but we should have pets that level up and evolve (we all know what I am referring to, right?).

Make them gain minuscule and random increments in stat boosts so that every pet would have unique stat distribution. Give perfectionists like me something fun to work on. Even better, forget the stat changes, make them fancier as they evolve (appearance, skill effects, etc.) so we can show off to fellow rangers our dedication to the profession.
Or maybe make ultra rare pets that spawn randomly around the world that has different color or looks.

Every time I explore the world and see herds of juvenile something, my passion for collection dies unrequited. Just my 2 cents.

So you want to make your ranger more like Ash from Pokemon?

Well, not specifically. I just want more things to do when I’m wandering around being useless.

Giving pets an improvement process will either mean that rangers are underpowered compared to other classes when they just reach 80, overpowered once they improve all their pets, or the process makes no difference and is a waste of time.

I do agree that the UP/OP issue arises when there are stat differences, but I wouldn’t think it to be a waste of time even if the changes made no stat differences. It would at least give a sense of accomplishment for getting uncommon pets and add some variety to the pets we see in towns, pve, wvw, or spvp.
Besides, implementing pet skins would be much in line with GW2’s spirit of making your characters unique via customizing their looks.

At this stage in the game they don’t need to bother with leveling pets. It would have been nice if this game had some class specific quests players could do or they introduced some pet skins on the gem store though.

Just having an armored wolf or a barn owl would make me happy.

WTB berserker wolf.

Keybind. Since the beginning there has been a keybind missing on active/guard. How that is possible I cannot fathom. They are STILL missing BASIC keybind functions for pets.

0% hope left for Rangers and -50% hope for pets.

I wish they had kept their original pet evolution idea in the game… It was essentially like GW1 where you could make any pet fill any sorta role (tanky, damage, or mixed) but nope… Gotta scrap good ideas…

I still wish I could have a Dire Bear…