Yes, they're going to level too - awesome!

But who else out there thinks pets in the current 'meta' are somewhat underwhelming?
You didn't ask, but here's my opinion on the matter anyway!

Pets are really useful for muling items and looking nice, no one can deny that. Next to a named fighter thrall though? They're the inferior option hands down. Precisely why is that? Because they don't have equipment slots.

You can't stack armor onto them, and you can't enhance their combat output by equipping them with weapons.

I really hope that, in light of this, Funcom chooses to make pet leveling compensatory in relation to the built-in advantages that thralls already receive now, which will soon be further amplified by thralls having stats to boost with gear. Please give us equipment slots for pets, or make their scaling account for the advantages that 'humanoid followers' will have over them.

I dont want a level 52 rhino that hits like a Fighter 4 with no weapon equipped.