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Revert Fire Protection and Blast Protection

In 1.21 Pre-Release 4 Blast Protection and Fire Protection were nerfed so that to get the effects of these enchantments as strongly as before you need to wear a full set of that enchantment. This makes these enchantments, which were somewhat useful in niche cases, now completely useless or a massive pain to use if ever a use were to be found for them. I rarely if ever see anyone using the other Protection enchantments even prior to this change, other than randomly getting them as loot, and this change just put the nail in the coffin for anyone considering using these enchantments, as Protection is simply the better option.

The whole point of the other Protection enchantments is to add diversity to the armor sets, and by making this change makes these enchantments basically obsolete, and everyone will just use Protection now.

If this change is to go through, enchanting is a massive pain to do, thus having to make a full set of armor with Blast Prot and Fire Prot would require getting Soul Speed, Swift Sneak, Mending, and all the other rare enchantments three separate times instead of a single time for a single piece of armor.

All in all, nerfing Fire Protection and Blast Protection is a huge mistake as it will just further discourage anyone from using them.

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    Maybe to get the old enchantment benefits back, you could craft a trinket with 6 netherite ingots, one piece of raw gold and 2 gunpowder. For the trinket to work, it needs to be held in either your main hand, your offhand or there could be a new trinket slot.

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    At least these enchantment nerfs are not in Bedrock.

    • However in Bedrock, you don’t get any knockback protection from Blast Resistance due to a bug: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-97054 . That is worse compared to wearing a single piece of armor with Blast protection in Java 1.21 pre-release 4.
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    this really makes sense. the nerf was really uncalled for, and hardcore minecraft is going to be much harder to survive in the nether, and in big explosive mega projects. revert please

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    As of right now their are little to no reasons to use these enchantments over protection. Why would reducing their benefits help the game in any way. Please revert this or improve the enchantment in some other way. That or nerf basic protection as to make other protection enchantments valuable.

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    While it would be interesting to have some kind of "set bonus" mechanic... nerfing existing enchantments to shoehorn it in was not the way to do it.

    Respectfully, no thank you.  Please change it back.

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    No one talks about the PvP community and how many people will love this update but do not give feedback to keep it in place, This should go through as in 1.18 to 1.19.3 majority of the community loved the knockback on blast protection. Many stopped playing the game in general after 1.19.4 and the rest couldn't keep up with the update, I agree that Fire Protection should NOT revert but Blast Protection should to prior 1.19.4. It made things easier and less energy draining. Crystal PvP was at its peak during the old enchantment effect of Blast Protection, The game became boring after the 1.19.4 update and it took almost 75% less skill to be "good"

     

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    I may be mistaken about this, but I believe that you are able to now change the code for specific enchantments using data packs. I bet you could steal the files from an older version and upload them to the most recent version. This is tedious of course, but it is doable. Judging by the widespread upset, I am sure that other players will be looking for ways to fix the enchantments too. I bet within a month or so, vanilla tweaks or some other site will come out with a data pack that removes the nerf on Fire and Blast Protection.

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    This was thankfully reverted in 1.21 release candidate 1. 

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    Re Nerf It