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Revert the 26.2-pre-2 changes on Attribute Swapping

On the latest snapshot you can no longer quickly swap from one item to another and retain its attributes/use case. This change not only patched PvP techniques (breach swapping, lunge swapping, ...) used by tens if not hundreds of thousands of players, but it also makes performing actions quickly much more difficult.

For example, a use case of the previous item switching system was a technique often referred to as 'Breach Swapping'. By holding a fully charged Netherite Sword with an attribute of 8 attack damage you would quickly switch to a Mace with the Breach IV enchantment and click. What this would do is take the attack damage of the sword and practically apply it to the Mace, making the Mace deal the sword's damage while retaining its properties of performing smash attacks and being enchanted with breach.

This 'bug' is no longer simply an error in the game's code, as its been in the game for so long that it has been accepted by players as a staple of the game rather than a problem that needs to be fixed.

This still stands after 26.2-pre-3, since they claim that Attribute Swapping will be patched in future snapshots.

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    Its a vital part of the game you can't just remove something that people have spent months learning and figuring out I really hope this is reverted.

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    i didn't say mojang can do this without my permission

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    This is similar to the "Sprint Sneak" bug. When that was patched, the Minecraft community cried, and when it was unpatched, everyone was happy. "Too OP" is not a real argument, and bringing back attribute swapping would make everyone happy.

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    Please dont remove its essential!

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    This would honestly kill many game modes. Stuff like breach swapping in mace would be taken away, and other things like axe swapping would be killed off aswell. there’s literally no point of removing it, lunge swapping is one of the only reasons the spear is popular, and taking that away will just kill it aswell

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    the removal of attribute swapping will overall ruin most modern pvp strategies and greatly slow down most modern mechanocs, this is overall a really bad change.

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    Everyone who says: "yeah but lunging should have a cooldown" or "breach is only for mace" is just not familiar with attribute swapping. A normal person, no specializing in pvp, will never come in contact with attribute swapping. It is a thing souly for pvp and it needs skill to pull off so its kinda a reward

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    True it has been in the game for so long that i think we can consider it to be a feature/mechanic now 

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    Dont do it Mojang! Atribute swapping is to big a part of modern pvp, if you remove it you would be angering hundreds of thoughsands of players, it has become a feature of the pvp community NOT A BUG, simillar to tnt duping in redstone contraptions was not patched and accepted as a part of the game, it would be hypocritical nad unfair to the pvp cumminity to remove, in my opinion like removeing the creeper as it was origonaly a bug but can now never be removed from the game. This is one of the most important techniques in pvp and too widly used to get rid of. Dont do it Mojang!

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    This drastically affects the skill ceiling of PvP, and removes any chance of Minecraft PvP growing in popularity. This change will completely destroy a community in the game, that the removing of “shield stunning” almost did. (For those that are unaware the removal of shield stunning was the invulnerability that a player gains when their shield gets disabled)

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    PLEASE REVERT THIS CHANGE MOJANG THE GAME IS 50 UNVIGITILLION TIMES BETTER WITH IT

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    This is the most importnent [part of pvp lock in mojang

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    for the love of everything mojang please think for more than TWO seconds before patching a bug thats been in the game since its conception.

    this is the equivalent of patching quasi-connectivity for redstoners. it is an integral part of the pvp community and ruining it will piss of an entire community again. idk how you keep doing this

    also pls fix shield stunning by fixing MC-268147 while ur at it ok thanks byee :3:3

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    This change WILL kill modern PvP. There is no argument to be had. Either they revert this change, or we don't update. Competitive PvP will keep attribute swapping regardless. I feel so betrayed right now. This update is horrible. Guys, we need to rally. We MUST save PvP!!

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    A side-effect of this patch was essentially an immense delay in swapping between hotbar slots, which has an immensely negative effect on any form of serious pvp. 
    Attribute Swapping has become an integral part of pvp, and should be kept in the game.

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    Revert this change and PLEASE ADD BACK SHIELD STUNNING

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    Pleaseee bring it back

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    FIX THIS PLZZZ

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    you cant stun slam or anything its so bad

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    Yo everyone play 1.21.11 atp

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    Pvpers should realise that this will change pvp forever, no quick spear lunges anymore, no stun slams, and no attribute swaps with sword and mace. I am against it and all others should be aswell and i feel backstabbed by mojang, it took me months to learn a stunslam attribut swap combo which will be useless now

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    Who at Mojang decided to remove this. Who is genuinely this stupid. They are so removed from the community.

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    Please dont ruin the fun for the pvp community even more with another update.

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    I really like attribute swap, I would call it the best ''glitch'', and i think if it will be removed it would ruin pvp.

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    try building without attribute swapping..... lowkey impossible!!!

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    Don’t remove it

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    Minecraft is a game of glitches. The has been bugs uses all over the years that people commonly use, some of them don't impacting the gameplay, some of them making the gameplay itself. The minecraft PvP community has used atribute swapping on all of the gamemodes that have a shied, an axe and a sword, on maces, and even on cristal. Removing it is removing a part of the game.

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    This is a reply to the users message at June 1st 11:11 AM GMT+2 (central eu time)
    The argument the execution barrier can be bypassed with a macro is the same as saying "I can just use cheats to one tap with the mace so they should remove the mace"

    If Mojang really wanted to, they could instead implement a cooldown on the spears lunge mechanic like ender pearls and wind charges have. There are many ways to patch what Mojang deems necessary without removing the core fundamentals of shield combat like attribute swapping to disable shields.

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    vote guys to keep attribute swapping

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    The changes in attribute swapping would terribly effect pvp and the community.