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Weapon speed/reach tweaks and axe balancing

Swords are now faster than even pre-1.9 which makes them extremely fast also hoes are broken due to their massive speed and reach.

The reason that makes axe overpovered against shield wielder is the high shield disabling time which lets you ignore the shield for the next 3 hits.On the other hand,axes are completely useless if shields are not taken into account.Their slowness and small range doesn't give a chance to hit properly and cause to get comboed very easily by sword and hoe users.

 

My suggestions to fix this issues are:

• Base damage should be reverted to 1 and all tiers except wood should be buffed by 1

• All tools should have at least 2.75 reach to make them better than bare fist

 

The number suggestions for all tools:

Sword:

speed: 2.7(nerf) to make it just fast as pre-1.9 rather than being faster than it

reach: 3(same)  

 

Axe:

reach: 3.25(buff)

• Base shield disabling time of axes should be nerfed to 0.8(was 1.6) so we can hit only a single time after disabling the opponent's shield  

 

Hoe:

All hoes have 3.2 speed except stone(2.7).Wooden deals 1 and the damage increases per subsequent tier except stone and iron hoes deal same damage(2).This would make a netherite hoe deal 4 damage with 3.2 speed.Reach remains at 3.5 

 

Trident:

reach: 3.75(buff)  

 

Pickaxe:

speed: 2.2(nerf) to keep the speed difference between swords

 

Pickaxe and Shovel:

reach: 2.75(buff)

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    Swords are very much not faster than pre 1.9, before 1.9 you could attack as fast as you want limited only by how fast you can click, but now you can only attack 3 times in a second which is considerably slower than 10-20 times a second

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    There is only 1 main problem with your balance, and the official balance: Attack reach. You can just use a trident to poke someone, and then run away, and do it again and again. There is nothing you can do, except using a trident yourself, so the only viadle weapons are gonna be those with high reach. Change my mind. 

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    Tridents have the highest reach and good damage but they lack on speed and you can use this weakness to your advantage by using a fast weapon like sword or hoe.Also you can use snowballs and fishing rods to slow/pull him down

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    Weapons should be a bit slower… It’s like a more tedious version of 1.8/1.9 but you can crit spam with a netherite axe. They made the timing so bad.

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    why an AXE has more reach than a SWORD? It makes no sense