Mechanic

Mechanic is one of the Production subclasses in Elder Tale.

Overview
As its name suggests, this subclass deals with the construction and maintenance of machines and the lost technology of Theldesia. It was added as the centerpiece of the fourth expansion pack Maze War, whose main theme was ancient civilization and machines.

It’s a subclass Adventurers can access only at level 60 or above and with a quite difficult subclass-changing quest. To reflect the “lost technology” setting, the majority of the items low-leveled Mechanics can create are joke items with no practical use, like surprise boxes. At higher level however, players get to craft a vast array of “clockwork” items like the Clockwork Warhorse, a popular pet item and a mount with excellent performance, and most of all production equipment which gives bonuses to other Production subclasses, such as workbenches, drafting tables and rotary saws.

Earthlings Mechanics are rare because machines are relics of the Alvs era, a dark period for mankind and the other races. This background makes the subject a taboo of society and the idea of its study heretical. In Yamato, only researchers of the academic city of Tsukuba study this kind of technology, often visiting ruins and archeological sites to seek remains of this engineering technology.

For Adventurers accustomed to modern civilization, watches, clocks and automatic machines of the likes are familiar and in great demand for Mechanics, who found themselves placed in a central position in the Post-Catastrophe society as they are the most able to craft the basics of modern machines (pumps, suspensions, levers..).

A detailed article was written about it on the 28th volume of the Theldesia Gazette.

Mechanic Skills
In the medieval world of Elder Tale, a mechanic's skills would be limited to relatively simple machines and constructs such as levers, wheels, pulleys and such. However, with the discovery of being able to invent things that did not previously exist in this world, more complex machines such as the Steam Engine and Ocypete are now possible.