Been playing the beta 5 and I think there are a couple of bugs.
When starting a new game if you customize the Sovereign, just clicking on the customize button does this, it reverts to pre beta 5 conditions. Specifically you CANNOT do the starter quests.
When I started as standard Tinkerer, and choose the recipe path for the starting quests I get the following rewards
Wisdom (I think)
Recipe Round Shield
Recipe Chain gauntlets
Recipe Round Shield
Recipe Chain gauntlets
Basically the recipe repeats which doesn't help in anyway.
Just thought I would mention these.