Hello,
Until now (unless I've dreamed) when your main caracter is doing is first level up, he is asked to choose a "career" (defender, commander, etc) and then, in this career, he was able to immediatly choose the first "trait" (I'm not English so I'm not sure of the terms).
Now, he's got the first choice, but not the second. So you can choose your first trait only when going from lev 2 to lev 3 whereas before it was when going from lev1 to lev2.
I think it's a regression.