Yeah, I wish you could use whatever melee weapon you want on your jedi/sith, and whatever ranged weapon on the rest. It's something that surprised and slightly 'upset' me when this was confirmed back then. I'd love to be a BH with a rifle, or a guardian with a staff, whatever. Thing is though they'd have to put so much more effort into the skills and animations. Perhaps something like they did in Guild Wars 2, idk. At any rate, the advanced classes would more or less lose their importance. You might as well just not have an AC, and just have 5 skills trees for different styles/roles.