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Make tridents deal less melee damage

Tridents have a great attack reach but can also be thrown so I think that as a nerf to tridents they should be less strong. In melee because they are as strong as a netherite sword doing melee and they can have loyalty so it is basically useless using a sword if you can do longer range with trident, do the same, if not more dps and also throw it and have loyalty. So I think it should be nerfed a tiny bit to balance out tridents. I mean, they aren’t even that rare. 

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    I don’t think they should be nerfed that much, just enough so it is fair. 

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    I don't know if you've actually used them in game, but if anything they're worse. I dunno about base values, but specifically with Enchantments, they can't have Sharpness, Fire Aspect, Sweeping Edge, or any other Sword/Axe Enchantments. Yeah you can throw them and they have more range, but that doesn't help a ton.

    They are really good in Water or when it's Raining/Thundering, but aside from that, they could probably use some work.

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    I don't think tridents need to be nerfed. They have the same DPS as netherite hoes, and deal even less knockback.

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    They should deal 6 damage.

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    if you take enchantments into account, tridents are really only good under water. 

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    3 stabby things go in instead on one, and you say make it do less damage... Um...

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    The reach for tridents is going pretty high soon that is why. 

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    I mean, they have less durability and have a slightly longer attack cooldown, sooo...