All cosmetic pets are gonna be upgraded to cybernetic pets for free.
You would be able to unlock green, blue, purple, cosmic and unique nodes on them.
To unlock these nodes you would have to donate items of the specific type.
Cosmic nodes give bonuses to powers, while green, blue and purple nodes give bonuses to things like health, defense, damage and spirit.
You can reroll each node almost for free at crafter, allowing you to mix and match them to customize your hero.
Each pet can have different cybernetic upgrades.
You would be able to buy random pets for splinters.
There might be a craftable pet in future.
Pets are not going to be bound to heroes, allowing you to swap them between characters easily.
There would be a new "vacuum" feature. When you click a bindable key (default "J") all green, blue and purple on the ground are being automatically picked up and donated to your pet. This would help to unlock all the stuff.
If you have the max rank for every node on your pet the items are going to be converted to a small amount of credits (about 1% of the regular sell amount).
Cosmics and uniques cannot be vacuumed, and they would have to be dragged manually on the pet. You can also manually donate any green, blue or purple item.
You don't have to put your pet out to use Pet-Tech.
This would allow to accomplish the following things:
Every pet is useful.
Performance will be better because loot won't stay on the ground.
Players would have something to do with big loot explosions even if there isn't anything useful in particular.
MOAR CUSTOMIZATION!11