I agree, this tree locking is for the birds. It is completely irrational that I would enter a new expansion with LESS abilities than the day before it launched. I shouldn't lose the ability to have both Umbral Barrier and the Bolster upgrade like I currently have on Live. I don't understand why you would force us to spend 12 points on the first row when we only have 25 points to spend! That's half of the points going to weak abilities when compared to later in the trees. Yes, I understand I'd have to sacrifice the upgrades or the center points by splitting my points between the trees, but sacrificing 7 points for what used to cost 1 is just plain silly. Please fix the requiring 6 additional points to be spent in the first row before you can spend points in the opposite tree. That is just SUCH a stiff penalty for splitting points =(