I expected this, but now it's confirmed (by an interview at MMORPG). Every weapon, piece of armor, and piece of gear will have a skill tree.
This will be awesome. This will likely stop people from copying others classes, along with the vast variety of base weapons.
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Well, this is [i]kinda[/i] off-topic, but whatever. Do all weapons level up, naturally, as your character does? Or is it solely based on the skill tree of that weapon. Because it would be really stupid if, for whatever reason, you don't have the prerequisites to get that weapon up to your current level. I hope that is only for special weapons, or they make the skill tree very easy to complete for normal weapons.