There should be more snipes! A stranger should be able to sell snipes that take up a trinket space and follow you around. Not only as decoration for your knight but snipes could raise states for all of your armor and weapons, collect items in clockworks, revive your party once per clockworks run, and fight. They could have an event to buy them with an energy pack and then have a usual shop for them. They could cost around 1,000 energy. I have surveyed players and this is just what everybody wants!
Snipes
made a really dumb version of your idea a few weeks ago but i give you credits (its better than mine)
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/51027
I thought we covered this in the last 'Pet thread hunting season'.
I'll go over it once more:
People don't want pets that can do things. It'd be like having an extra trinket slot if it increased stats. It'd be a better mecha knight if it could fight.
Yes, generally speaking, plenty of people like to think this is cool. But practically, this can be very damaging.
Pets that can fight will either get in your way if they're too weak, or could be used to fight instead of yourself (for lazy people)
The only pets people would be okay with are purely cosmetic ones, as in ones that follow you and just look cute and cuddly. Customizing them, fine. But don't have them actually DO anything. It'll irritate a LOT of players. (I know you said you surveyed, but I have my own general data, and it's not very pretty)
Also, there WERE Monster Pockets.
And this should be in Suggestions.
Suggestions
And this is a really cool idea but I think make them cost 50kcr like all the other stuff
I also want to be able to give them clothes. My dream snipe is a snipe with goggles,shadow sun Stetson and 2 mini blitz's
(claps excitedly )