The latest additon to the weapon catalogue in minecraft, the minecraft spear shows a lot of potential to revolutionize minecraft pvp. However, it's current craft recipe makes it much cheaper than a sword. Given the hinted mechanics, would potential be stronger than a sword as well, meaning it may well replace it. On the other hand, if it's weaker than the sword, it would not have much of an impact on the community, and I feel would be a terrible fix. Both these outcomes are not ideal, as it would cause a negative shift for one or the other weapon.
The best solution in my (and by extension much of the community)'s eyes would be to make it much harder to craft early game, as currently all one needs is a single tier item to make a spear. Instead, it would make more sense if it required three. This way, players would first of prefer crafting the sword over the spear. This also makes sense as jousting spears tended to be quite heavy, and would justify the high damage.
The second change in my opinion would be to use swap one stick for a blaze rod. This would push this weapon into mid/late-game, so that only dedicated players have access to it. Similar to how the mace uses breeze rods and does height based damage (associated with wind), the spear would use a blaze rod, explaining why it does speed damage and others don't, as fire is associated with speed.
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^ i can not paste images, this was the best i could do. The key for each character is in the comments.
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