The other Ascended Rank Spellblades came out excited about the official status upgrade and the class marking on their arms that came with the System designation of Mage, but only a few of the older Commanders could say the same thing.
They were the ones who had already been exposed to the system during their travels, and had some minor level of benefit from it, though not a whole class designation and marking.
Nearly all of the ones who had been successful had gotten Mage as a class, but unlike the members of Karl's group, they were not sent to an upgrade scene, but a class creation menu, where they could have chosen other options.
Just to be different, one of them chose Warlock as his class, but the rest all chose Mage so that it didn't affect their progression or standing within the Spellblade Clan.
