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Two Handed Weapons/Tool

We are aware combat is getting another overhaul so two-handed weapons/tools could be added at same time. While one of these items are equipped the item in the off-hand can't be used. These weapons would have benefits for being used.

An example of an item which could be a two-handed weapon is TheFriendlyPine's Hammer:

https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360019061531-The-Hammer?input_string=Two%20Handed%20Weapons%2FTool 

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    I totally agree to this.

     

    Battleaxes, spears, two handed swords... we are now in the 'snapshot' of the new combat system, we have the new workplaces without any use...why wouldn't you get this chance to do something amazing?

     

    We have 1 handed weapons and in the other hand we usually have food or a shield...that's the only variety we've got.

     

    Combats could get really insteresting if you hear to this idea, everyone could have a way to fight.

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    And we could get a weapon that necessary acts like a weapon from the legacy combat. Being able to attack with both weapons after each other is great. Being able to do that would in a way go around the cooldown timer. Getting in 2 critical attacks after each is great. Maybe have a dagger like the one shown in minecraft dungeons that could be held in both hands. It could have the attack speed of a stone hoe and damage of a gold sword. If this were to be implemented it could be the go to weapon for 1.8 pvp players.

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    Nice idea, I hope you have more cool ideas for us players

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    Nice idea, I hope you have more cool ideas for us players

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    Honestly hope this gets added, it would give more variety to the combat system as you would need to make a choice between a more powerful weapon (probably with more range) or a slightly weaker weapon but with the ability to have a shield, or gaple, or totem in the offhand

    Ideas for these weapons could be: a battle axe, a giant sword, a Warhammer or even a sythe (would do swearing edge 180° in front of you) or maybe a giant shield that can protect you and entities a block either side of you but you can only attack in a very short range and do very little damage

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    using two handed weapons should deal more damage if melee or be more accurate if ranged

     

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    A cool way to craft or upgrade weapons could be the smithing table, to make it a little less one note.

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    It would be neat to have two-handed weapons have big benefits (such as spears and halberd having reach, but longer charge times before they do max damage), it would give combat a unique touch and it's own drawbacks for different weapon uses. Like, normal Minecraft is just one-handed swords and shields, but that could enhance the experience of someone favoring defense over offense, whereas someone with offense would have virtually no defense. Think of a greatsword that would have a large sweep attack compared to the one-handed sword we have now, while it also did more damage with said sweep attack compared to our normal sword, but again, the greatsword would have no defensive options other than being able to run about in hopes you dodge an attack.

     

    I have been thinking about this for the past few months, but it seems OP beat me to it by a few years.

    Honestly, the PvP balance is very out of place right now, as everyone seems to be using an axe with jump crits, as they can also use a shield with said axe. But one of the comments suggested a Battleaxe, which would do amazing damage, but shouldn't have access to jump crits (alongside the inability to use shields)

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    could have greathammer/battleaxe/claymore-sword.

    - hammer has huge durability and knockback built in, allowing for more enchants (or the same enchants +knockback)
    - battleaxe has best flat dmg overall but no other advantages (baseline)
    - claymore-sword swings faster than other two and has longer reach, but less dmg than axe and hammer, so tradeoff of dmg for reach and speed 

    - could also have 2H spears (pikes?), which hit hard and have good reach, but no swing attk (can only ever hit one target with each attk)

    i hope the devs see this, could be interesting...