Well, I can get behind shrinking flappy wings as it can be quite annoying but I'd be against hiding pets out of combat. If you have your pets out and aren't stealthed, I should be able to see them as well. I mean I might want to open on you by killing them first. Granted that only applies to pvp, is pretty situational and not common even then but still, they shouldn't just appear out of no where unless there weren't out and your summoning them. You do have the option of dismissing them through various annoying means when not in combat though.

They mentioned they were going to optimize pets for better server performance in Update 26.

https://elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/56681

At a guess, if they overhaul them the way they did Bosmer stealth abilities and Werewolf last year, we won't be seeing many Sorc. pets following U26.

On a non-sarcastic note, though, it would be nice to have a non-flappy model for the twilight pet.

I want to trade my matriarch for a sylvan nyxad pixie healer!

Grianasteri wrote: »

dainswulf wrote: »

I know this has been requested so many times before... But it's such a simple request, please just the ability to scale or shrink the size of sorc pets. Doesn't have to be an ability even, just add a checkbox or slider in the menus and make it only the model/texture that scales, or even an option to not show sorc pets at all unless in combat since when they're in the way it's almost always when trying to loot/interact with things rather than combat.

The problem you highlight is generally felt by most people in my experience. Sorc pets are too big and get in the way, therefore they are annoying for everyone.

Rather than just reduce the size, what we need are fully customisable options. Yes the pets absolutely need to be smaller. But what about the ability to change their colour, or change their skin.

I hate both of them, neither is attractive aesthetically, they are ugly. And why tie Sorcs to purple colours with pets. Fashion is end game! We need to be able to match our skills/pets colours with the aesthetic colour schemes we are using.

That would be ideal, but I imagine doing combat animations for new models would be time consuming - unless it's just a scale size and change color/texture options. Simple option to just have pets hidden altogether if I'm not in a PvP zone and not in combat would be the easiest/quickest/cheapest option to implement. Hell, even just making the Twilight fly higher up when out of combat would fix the major issue for me.

It would be amazing to change pets altogether though, you are right in that your appearance is hindered by being pigeon holed into these purple daedric looking pets that are cookie cutter and appear everywhere.