It be more intresting if the skill system was removed, and replace it with this idea:

Skill & Level systems boring for a game, so perhaps one that let you have a dynamic ability of using skills such as:

Build up a mage for a while with skills then if you get fed up, or feel you have acheived as much as possible, you can train as a warrior next etc... In other words, the skills you choose at the beginning of charactor creation isn\'t the limit of what skills in what you learn.