Hey, everyone in SK is killing vana and sitting around while having an outrageous amount of moonstone and valestone in their arsenal. OOO is going to do something with it, right? Probably OOO will create Advanced Battle Sprites, sprites you can only achieve when your current sprite reaches a certain level. They'll probably focus on Summoning things to come to your aid and Sapping health from monsters. They'll eat food created from those 2 currently useless minerals. Probably they'll walk, since the ones we have fly. As for the mineral deposit, it'll probably be replaced with something, like a place where you can upgrade your sprite based on how much clockwork you've done. If you have anything to add, like their apperance and names, feel free to. (By the way, battle sprites sure took a lot of flame souls away).
Health steal with 1 button press is cheap. Seraphynx does it right.
All sprites fly for convenience. Avoids (tries to) ugly clipping or prevents them from acting like obstacles for both you and the enemy.
Like wouldn't it look silly if your sprite sits on some spikes?
But lol, you're not suggesting anything, only speculating with "probably this" "probably that".