With the new update, i've been testing the spear, and i've found that using a spear with a horse is not really optimal, the maximum damage, with the fastest horse possible is 20, which just barely one shots normal monsters like zombies and etc.
But it's barely useless agaisnt players, that can reduce to damage to around 2 with armor, and stronger mobs like pillagers and piglins take two shots to kill, which is way slower with a horse than just hitting them with 3 times with a sword.
But just increasing the base damage of the spear would be too unbalanced, because spear+elytra is already really powerfull, we could nerf this combo, but then it wouldn't make sense with the logic of speed=damage.
So instead we can make the "Cavalry" enchantment. A spear with the enchantment will increase the damage you do with a while mounted by 25% which would make you able to one shot pillager's while riding but not witches and it still would do better agaisnt armoured oponents.
The spear is really good as it is in my opinion, I just think that we should be incentivized more to use it in mouted combat, specially in pvp, instead of just using the elytra that is overpowered enough as is.
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