Guild Wars 2

I’ve been reading the forums while leveling an alt keeping track of the progress and have noticed a huge split in the community on what style of play they came to this class expecting.

There appears to be a large split between those that chose this class to play as what other games would call a Beastmaster and those that came wishing to play as an Archer (there are other smaller divides but those could be satisfied with build variety)

It appears that there is space for these two entirely separate classes. This would be a huge change and require a lot of work (especially when creating a Beastmaster with pets that are responsive) but may allow for more defined/polished mechanics like what I’ve been experiencing playing a Guardian.

Of course separating Ranger into two classes would require people that already play Ranger to be able to select which of the divides they wish to “Convert” their existing character to (maybe with a trial period for each to give them an educated guess)

What is everyone else’s opinion on this?