Swordsmith

Swordsmith is a production subclass in Elder Tale. It’s an advanced subclass derived from the Weaponsmith, which itself derives from the Blacksmith.

Overview
Ditching most of the weapons a Blacksmith or a Weaponsmith can do, the Swordsmith focuses all their skills into sword making, gaining a huge bonus on the success rate and the quality of the product as well as some Swordsmith-exclusive recipes.

Due to its nature, the subclass is rare among People of the Earth and almost unique to Yamato. Even then, there shouldn’t be more than a handful of them unless you go the Seki, the Swordsmith’s Village.

Adventurers must first change subclass from Blacksmith to Weaponsmith, then raise their level again to receive the subclass-changing quest. Such process takes a lot of patience and assets since this subclass change is long and requires a great amount of material for leveling, and that’s without taking into account the fact that you will be then restricted to swords, which will only demand more effort and complicate the leveling.

This is why there are only few Adventurers who aim to become Swordsmiths, with only a fragment of them reaching honorable rank ; in the Yamato server, there are probably less than 10. For that reason, many of the Swordsmiths' products are rare and of top-notch performance.

There is a role-playing subclass called Sword Maker that, while similar to this one, cannot actually create swords.

Known Swordsmiths

 * Tatara (and probably all the members of Amenoma, as it is a swordsmithing guild)

Related Subclasses

 * Blacksmith
 * Weaponsmith

Trivia

 * Because of the difficulty in leveling up this subclass, many call it a "masochist's subclass.".