Plaman has informed me that I was not clear in my post.
I said that bandits get double stab early - I meant to say relatively early.
A career bandit - one with no thoughts of changing guilds, will acquire ult poisons far before any other starting player will acquire ult scholarship.
As I mentioned before, autowake is incredibly difficult to use, particularly for the magical guilds, without Focus mind.
Hence, my assertion that perhaps mandrake should be reigned in a bit.
Giliad
Written by my hand on the 10th of Agamnion, in the year 1136.