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Axes shouldn't have sweeping edge

In the combat test version, I was fighting in a fortress, when I fell into 8 wither skeletons. I managed to drink a turtle master potion, and fought them with my hard earned cleaving III netherite axe, and I lost. How could I have not died? Maybe I could have made a sword and enchanted it with sweeping edge? No because axes could be enchanted with sweeping edge, removing the purpose of swords in the late game.

What use is a sword in the late game, other than having higher DPS and some extra reach? The axe has an exclusive enchantment, but the sword doesn't? There should be no sweeping edge for axes, because it kind of removes the purpose of having a sword in PVE.

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    Sweeping edge is really only good for farms and dealing with large hordes of slow mobs. Swords are quite a bit stronger than axes in combat situations, as it has more reach and a 50% higher attack rate. In regular pve, usually the axe is good enough. But in tougher combat situations, such as fighting a raid, wither, or another player, swords are still the better option. 

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    Maybe swords could deal more sweeping damage than axes.

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    swords have historically been anti personnel weapons they should do less damage to armored opponents  and more to unarmored opponents more so than is already the case.