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Mace is causing unhealthy one-tap scenarios — needs balance adjustments

The current Mace balance is creating several unhealthy situations in PvP that remove counterplay and centralize the combat meta around one single option.
The main issue is the Wind Charge + Mace combo, which frequently creates unavoidable one-taps even when the defending player reacts correctly.

Problems:

  • Unavoidable one-taps: The burst damage combined with momentum makes survival inconsistent and often impossible.

  • Excessive knock-up: Getting launched too high removes control from the player and turns the fight into a coin flip.

  • Fall damage abuse: Many deaths happen not from the Mace itself, but from forced fall damage after being knocked upwards.

  • Fire enchantment synergy: A high-burst weapon shouldn’t also benefit from fire damage-over-time, which creates power creep and reduces weapon diversity.

Suggested adjustments:

  • Lower or remove the extreme knock-up values.

  • Remove fall damage caused by Mace hits.

  • Disable Fire Aspect on the Mace.

  • Slightly reduce the burst damage to increase consistency and counterplay.

These changes keep the identity of the Mace — a momentum-based high-damage weapon — but remove the unhealthy one-tap scenarios and make the PvP meta healthier and more varied.

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    I don't know if I didn't understood what you're trying to say but this just doesn't happen? Mace can't make you take fall damage unless it's because of knockback, something every weapon has, and it isn't unavoidable unless you use it with a lot of skill with an elytra, but wind charges? That's so easy to avoid... Just blocks, doors, cobwebs, enderpearls, shields, arrows, slow falling and even totems work, it's not unavoidable. The mace requires a lot of skill and is pretty easy to counter, the point of it is being a risky weapon with a really good reward if used correctly and it is! I don't undertand what you are complaining about