as I understood you can have ability points on the gear to balance the lack of point/level
about the Talents, they were removed because having talent giving you abilities point was redundant, the community was strongly in favor of removing it
for the pets, it is unlikely hapenning, no major feature will be added (even if it would be awesome :3 )


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