From what I've noticed, they have made quite some changes to starting zone quest line.
New characters now do just two quests. The second one boost you to level 19 and also reward you with Moon Armor set.
This makes me concerned as I made it only to level 21 before had to take rather long break from the game and now I feel like all of what I've done done was complete waste of time and I can just as well delete that char and start over so I can have my D-Grade armor at level 19.
Also once you complete the 2nd quest and receive D-Grade armor set, you wont get any hints to 1st class transfer at all, and NPC that were giving 1st class transfer quest before simply don't talk to you now. I can only guess that you have to hit level 20 before you can even start the 1st class transfer quest.