Class Weapon/Magic Proficiency

[Zach1]

To sort of distance the classes from one another, since warrior is a barbarian without woodlore, among other class problems, what if each class was better with a certain type of weapon than the other? However, this could only really work for the fighter style classes, the magic type could be evened out just as simply.They could go as following.

Warrior: Great swords, (2 handed type)
Barbarian: Axes, clubs, hammers, stuff like that. pretty much anything on a stick or pole.
Thief(rename to Rogue!): One handed weapons, such as lighter swords, and daggers, along with bows to make up for lackluster melee combat.

The magic, or rather non-melee classes could each also get an attack or set of attack to even everything out.

Alchemist: Early chemical warfare? what about the possibility of throwing viles of unknown substances (to us anyway), which on impact spread pestillence or the likes..
Priest: ...
Wizard: ...