Mechanic

Brutus	Mechanic	Trooper	Assault	Miner	Engineer	Driver	Defender	Supplier
Sprinter	Trickster	Booster	Lifeguard	Camper	Blaster	Saboteur	Hyperion	Crisis

Mechanic Support
Available from
Sergeant-Major
Price
20 000

Mechanic is a support Drone. It enhances the healing effect of the Repair Kit consumable and extends the effect to teammates within a small radius.

Garage description

Support drone. Improves the effectiveness of your Repair Kits, and repairs any team mates within its area of effect when using Repair Kits. Repairing team mates grants additional score points. Speeds up Repair Kit cooldown.

Mechanics

Mechanic is activated whenever a Repair Kit is expended. The number of hit points instantaneously restored is increased and the effects of this supply will apply to allies within a radius of up to 25 meters. Allies in range are connected by a thin blue laser.

Addtionally, the Repair Kit's cooldown is reduced from 30 to 20 seconds, and every other supply activated reduces the cooldown by another 10 seconds. Mechanic permits activation of Repair Kit even when at full health if teammates are nearby.

If at least one teammate benefits from the effects of this Drone, the activator will receive 20 battle points.

• - Bonus to instant HP regained (HP): 100 → 500
• - Healing radius (m): 15 → 25
• - Reduction of Repair Kit cooldown (sec): 10
• - Recharge (sec): 10

Additionally, like all Drones, Mechanic provides a passive bonus to the strength of Boosted Armor and Boosted Damage:

• Boosted Armor supply's effect strength (%): 50 → 100
• Boosted Damage supply's effect increase (%): 50 → 100

Pros and Cons

Boost in instant healing is helpful when actively taking damage (which halts subsequent gradual healing)
Ability to score lots of points in SGE, defending in ASL, and other crowded (often defensive) situations, since at least one teammate is always nearby
Clever supply use can allow activation of a repair kit about every 10 seconds
Easy to run out of repair kits with frequent activation

Tips and Advice

• Though high upgrade levels are certainly helpful, the range you get from them is not critically important in the crowded situations Mechanic works best in. Ultimately, it's good to upgrade it for the added supply power and range, but you can still score plenty with a low-leveled mechanic and invest your crystals elsewhere.
• Since the Juggernaut cannot use its own supplies, a Mechanic that follows the Juggernaut around can significantly lower its chances of being destroyed by sharing repair kits with it
• Some of the highest recorded scores in the game have been scored by groups of 2-4 players using Mechanic + Isida (support nanobots) + Dictator (typically AP immunity) in Siege mode and in Assault mode (defending). All the players in the group work to keep each other and their teammates alive, and score a lot of points while doing so.

Micro-upgrades

Like all Drones, Mechanic can be micro-upgraded to a total of 20 steps.

Step					Cost Step	Delay time	Cost Speed-up
0	100	15	50	50	-	-	-
1	120	15.5	52.5	52.5	1000	5h	2000
2	140	16	55	55	6160	1d 6h 48m	12320
3	160	16.5	57.5	57.5	11320	2d 8h 36m	22640
4	180	17	60	60	16470	3d 10h 21m	32940
5	200	17.5	62.5	62.5	21630	4d 12h 9m	43260
6	220	18	65	65	26790	5d 13h 57m	53580
7	240	18.5	67.5	67.5	31950	6d 15h 45m	63900
8	260	19	70	70	37110	7d 17h 33m	74220
9	280	19.5	72.5	72.5	42260	8d 19h 18m	84520
10	300	20	75	75	47420	9d 21h 6m	94840
11	320	20.5	77.5	77.5	52580	10d 22h 54m	105160
12	340	21	80	80	57740	12d 42m	115480
13	360	21.5	82.5	82.5	62890	13d 2h 27m	125780
14	380	22	85	85	68050	14d 4h 15m	136100
15	400	22.5	87.5	87.5	73210	15d 6h 3m	146420
16	420	23	90	90	78370	16d 7h 51m	156740
17	440	23.5	92.5	92.5	83530	17d 9h 39m	167060
18	460	24	95	95	88680	18d 11h 24m	177360
19	480	24.5	97.5	97.5	93840	19d 13h 12m	187680
20	500	25	100	100	99000	20d 15h	198000
Total	+400	+10	+50	+50	1000000	208d 8h	2000000
Sum of selected items:					0	0	0
Step start + speed-up:					0