Usefulness of certain CS Pet Equipments?

I only use the Item Pouch and Meso Magnet, to make up for how slow manual looting things is. This is the set I've had since pets were released and I've never changed it. I'm used to manipulating my pet to pick up everything (overshooting when I jump over/recoil over a loot pile, using ladders to teleport my pet, etc). I just don't see the advantage of all the other equips. Wing Boots, eh, they save you the trouble of picking up things in the corner, but also introduce AI to your pet and make it less controllable. Scales are annoying as pineapple, I hate when people randomly decide to loot my drops with their pet. I don't recommend them for anyone. Finally, Autopots would confuse the pomegranate out of me, because I'm used to having to hit buttons every time I get hit and I would probably waste a ton of pots. Not to mention I use more than one kind of HP/MP pot.

I unequip the Item Pouch when wandering through areas where I'm not likely to want random crap filling up my inventory. Forget Item Ignore.

I don't bother reviving my pet on my account with two APQ characters just for APQ...it's not very good money anyway >_>