Ideas very similar to this have been posted before, so I can't take all the credit.


Basically, I feel the skill system now limits weapon diversity quite a bit, especially for new players. Players are expected to sink irretrievable SP into weapons they often know nothing about. Remember not every weapon has a militia version. So in that a brand new player would almost be crazy to not spec into 'assault rifle' as their first weapon.


Here's what I propose

Spec into groups of weapons by type and racial variant

So instead of: Weaponry 1-5 --> Light weaponry 1-5 --> Combat rifles 1-5

You'd have: Amarr Weaponry 1-5 --> Amarr Light weaponry 1-5 (granting access to all Amarr light weapons) and from there, players can choose to specialize into specific weapons as they do now with Scrambler proficiency, fitting optimization etc.


Benefits of this type of tree:

-Increased variety in weapons on the battlefield
-more racial parity.
-Making more weapons available to new players, while keeping the depth of allowing players to spec as deeply into individual weapons as they want.

Drawbacks:

-All the weapons aren't out yet. Speccing into certain races gives you access to more goodies than others.

Thoughts?