Thank you for bringing up the Attack penalty issue. An adjustment to this would make DRGs much more attractive. Having a native Attack boosting ability would help as well.

The recent updates have been great; even the Spirit Link merit update is a nice touch (for the reasons described, but also because the "leveling up" of the wyvern is calculated before the wyvern's HP is considered, meaning that a lot of the time you have a 'free Healing Salve' every couple minutes).