Either that or maybe they can add in more weapons the classes can use and learn. I mean the proficiency should remain where they are as the classes should do best with their proficient weapon; but they can learn how to use others. I mean it has been showcased that troopers carry sidearms with them and imperial commandos and operatives use sidearms as well; but why can we not learn these skills. I am not asking for these classes to gain the more proficient abilities that the smuggler and bounty hunter know; however I believe adding in the ability to learn how to use new weapons. This i think will add more uniqueness to the characters that you create. Maybe they could implement this through you can select a given number of weapons you can learn out of maximum number of allowed trainable weapons within a given pool. I do believe that you also should have to actually dedicate some form of either currency or quest line to unlock these given weapon skills.

I wonder if they will ever add in more weapons for the individual classes to use; because to be honest I would love for the republic troopers to be able to learn how to use pistols and maybe sniper rifles. And the bounty hunters to be able to learn how to use scatterguns and blaster rifles as it would add in more variety in to each individual player. I'm not saying have these things free to access, to probably put it the best way possible there is a certain number of weapons a class could use and you would have to choose three of the five or two of the four extra weapon specializations and you would have to pay a good number of credits to unlock the weapons tree. I do believe the proficiency for weapons should still apply to where given classes do well with given weapons and skills; but I do think that other classes should be able to learn new abilities. Note: I do not know how this would apply for Jedi or Sith in this regard; but maybe the can learn more given styles to study and perfect within the lightsaber fighting category or maybe more dueling based melee weapons could be available to them.