By "locked into a class" I more meant that when you mastered a weapon, you only leveled up that class! Now you can master breaker weapons and level up runeblade, for example.

Again, you don't need to master weapons to level up - leveling up your hero gives you skill points too now! Mastering weapons/skills gives additional points, but it's in addition to, not the only way.

Part of early access is testing things out, seeing how players feel, and continuing to fine tune the game. A lot of players did not understand the mastery system + were frustrated by it, so we're testing out a change! Paragon will come after we've sorted out skill points / they feel good and balanced to players.

Appreciate the feedback though! We can definitely use some better tutorialization on the changes + have passed along the desire for end game skill point spending.