A couple of things i think would be cool.

1) The ability to refresh the duration of the animate. With the work we go through making crystals, the cost of the gem, spelling them up, sometimes giving them new gear. It would be nice to be able to refresh the duration of the animate so we can keep it as long as we dont log out or until it dies.

2) Animates being able to carry our Evil Eye or better yet removed their own eye and replace it with the Evil Eye