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Spear needs to be nerfed

The spear does way too much damage, especially with an elytra. This requires little to no skill either as you just need to point at your opponent and hold right click. The fact that you can add sharpness, fire aspect, and knockback is even worse. Lunge using up 128 durability is also absurd - a wooden spear breaks from 1 hit. I played with my friend on the latest snapshot, me using a mace and him using a spear. I couldn't do anything - while I had to carefully aim my swings from above, he just one shot me by flying straight into me. I feel this also defeats the whole point of the mace. The mace is a rare weapon, and requires a lot of skill, especially while using an elytra. But the spear only needs two sticks and one of whatever material you are using. It's as cheap as a shovel, and is quite literally a point and click weapon that can one shot anything with an elytra. I feel they need to nerf it while using the elytra as the bare minimum, as the spear + elytra is just way too easy to use, and ruins pvp as a whole. While the mace is more balanced and rare, the spear is just too overpowered and easy to use.

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I think pvp with the elytra in general needs a nerf. If the mace and spear couldn't be used with an elytra, or if it had its damage capped, then pvp would be more balanced and players would be using wind charges for the mace, and horses, boats, etc for the spear. Right now almost no endgame pvp occurs on the ground, and the spear just makes this worse.

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    Mace isn't used as a main weapon but rather as a support or first attack, of course it's going to lose against the spear. Also the spear charge attack has a little delay before it works and it gives a lot of time to use a shield since you see the player flying to you. While in ground you can place blocks to kill him too and use a shield before it hits you. It could still need some nerfing with the elytra tho, like a damage cap or a logarithmic growth or something.

    The mace is still useful, just has a different purpose and use.

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    You're rights

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    I find it satisfying to pop totems after a few hits, especially when in Crystal PvP, you are already doing so, if not more totems than the mace.

    Spear 100% needs a rework, I completely agree. You can throw spears in real life too, so maybe the spear could be a budget trident without any of the enchantments the trident can have.

     

    I do think the lunge enchantment is a decent idea, especially when reworked with hunger instead of durability being taken away. I feel like that enchantment opens the door to satisfying parkour tricks paired with the mace's wind burst!