Tips for less painful travelling!

+The earliest way to change vocations when you start the game is after creating your Pawn, go back to Cassardis and sleep at the inn until Night. Go to the blue marker on the map and Accept Olra's Request. Once you are in the Bitterblack Isle, you get to ask Olra to change your vocation. Make sure you have at least 1000 Discipline to change to Advanced Vocations(Warrior, Sorcerer, Ranger) and 1500 Discipline for Hybrid Vocations(Mystic Knight, Magick Archer, Assassin)

+ The well in Cassardis where you need to fight Saurians for a quest is an actual shortcut from Cassardis to Manamia Trail(the junction to mountain Waycastle and to the hill to Witchwood). Be careful at times since bandits do spawn there.

+ Theres a shortcut at the Mountain Waycastle so you can skip from the route you escort the Ox. There's bandits in the shortcut...again

+ The Ancient Quarry serves as another Shortcut after clearing it from monsters. Shortcut from Gran Soren to the Shadowfort fast