The problem is, they spent several phases of Beta and a Benchmark showing us the new character creation system. Then they turned around and changed the process for returning 1.0 characters, skipping the class choice entirely. It’s a little ridiculous to expect everyone to realize that the class they started with (for some of us back in September of 2010) would be the one automatically applied. It’s not like they show you equipped with the class weapon while editing your character. It should have been the last choice to be made just before final confirmation.

I started 1.0 as a THM in Girdania and that’s my starting city, it’s even on my CE Right of Passage. Luckily I had been warned by others before I logged in that the class I was before the final save wouldn’t be the default. Otherwise I wouldn’t have figured out how to switch to LNC and would have been forced to start in Ul’dah.