User blog comment:H.craft72/Newcomer to the Game/@comment-97.124.99.178-20120706145144

Some bandits are meatier than others. It's the ones with the shields that usually take longer to kill at lower levels. If you want, you can just run past them. From there, Witchwood will be easier to transverse than the bandit portion of the map. It is worth it to become an MK, you may want to dip in to other vocations (classes) to gain the augments that can switch over to any other class if you want. After you buy the vocation, you can switch between classes back and forth without paying for it again. Augments you may want could be like Sinew from Fighter which increases your ability to carry more (which is nice if you plan on carry heavy armor as a Mystic Knight). Something along those lines that benefit between cross-classes.

P.S. It's best to do the quest before you go on to A Matter of Myrmidons because it is a time-sensitive quest (Meaning, it may become void later once you progress on the main storyline too far. AKA Quina will eventually die because of this.)

-CROW