I have always loved the pets that help you in battle and have found mounts rather one dimensional and boring. (don't get me wrong I LOVE my Choco!)

But what if a pet can be used as a mount AND help you with battle?!
Say you summon a pet and this means it comes and you sit on it and when it is there you can execute special battle commands? this way you don't have to sacrifice a solo players stats cause you'll be doing it TOGETHER!

This also means you can ride and move with your mount/pet, and summon out of battle.
Of course the pet will be on a timer and you can dismiss before the timer runs out if you want to go back to solo battle. Kinda similar to Eidolons in FFXIII?

Anyway I also think that maybe each class can get a special pet/mount based on the job/class so it eliminates having to make a new summoner job...

Otherwise keep up the good work SE!