no blade is a vampire himself ;D does a hunter in WoW have a pet`? does a beastmaster have a pet? does the warlock have a pet? blablabla*
does it make the hunter or warlock gimped? hell no. on the opposite
because they are afraid that it will be the same like in FF11.. (although i think he was a good dd in FF11). MOST of the people didnt took the wyvern dmg and breath attacks into account (which is stupid imho). it was like a warrior with polearm + wyvern dmg + tactically things like healing breath etc
i would personally prefer both types. because THEN i could kick your asses up in pvp with my "gimpy" wyvern.

TWO are better then ONE

i would make a hunt on all you non-wyvern drg's ^^
PAH
well im looking forward to that what SE will offer to us DRG players... but i dont think that drg will be more "exciting" than lancer is. it will be almost the same. but well, lets see if they have some "stylish" skills for us.
For me coming from DarkAgeOfCamelot (16 classes per realm - where many are really innovative and new) simple classes are not that exciting to me. a polearm wielding class is nothing special to me. its like "hm ok, saw that before. a polearm footsoldier"