I'm not sure it's worth your time to test out smile. To be honest, I'd be surprised if Larian have done anything to prevent level up while in the grey area with patch 9, but I still would live in hope they might add this for the full release along with the ability to multi-class!

"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"