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Make impaling the same as sharpness, but twice as effective underwater

Axes got a cleaving buff, so why not give tridents an impaling buff? Impaling V will deal +3 damage on land, but +6 damage underwater. This would make tridents a lot more progressive.

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    I think it should still add a bit less damage than Sharpness (on land) but I do think this would be nice.

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    RedSol6419 Maybe Impaling V could deal 2 damage on land, but 6 damage in water? Like impaling adding 1 damage at level 1, 1.5 damage at level 3, and 2 damage at level 5. Either way, there should at least be some benefit to impaling on land.

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    I agree with RedSol. It should be something like 0.3-0.4 per level, so maxed out trident still deals less damage than a maxed out netherite sword(8.5-9 vs 10)

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    A nice idea for those trident styled fighters. But it should be less powerful than sharpness but OP underwater.

    Or, we could buff a bit sharpness and leave impaling like how sharpness is now but with the buff underwater.

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    Would this effect players? If so, then I'm not so sure about having a trident with reach and double damage.

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    Impaling is currently a strong enchantment, since it increases damage when you are on rain, storm, or touching a water block (not necesarily being underwater).

    Also, it's stronger than sharpness, and tridents are very difficult to find, so this is fine.

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    I would make some interesting battle encounters where your combatant finds you to be in the water but since you have an impaling enchant he would be at a disadvantage so he either chooses to fight on or uses a bow or let you run if you are low hp.

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    And rain

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    With the new combat update tridents will only deal 7 damage.  This could add 5 damage so it is the same as a netherite sword.  This would help tridents because they would have same damage and longer reach while swords can have sweeping edge, fire aspect, and knockback, so the two balance out.

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    Impaling is meant to be akin to Smite and Bane of Arthropods.

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    It will make tridents too useful

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    thats actually a really good idea. never thought of that

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    the +6 attack dmg is wayy too high as it would be dealing a solid 13 attack dmg when even a netherite axe with cleaving 3 would only do 12 with less reach. maybe just make it so it gets the +3 overall dmg and a swing speed buff of 2.5 increasing its dps but not its overall dmg

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    In Update Aquatic in Legacy, Impaling had the ability to one tap any mob touching water (most of them). I am unsure if it is still the same but it appeared to have no effect on mobs on land. This might have just been my edition.