The current combat system is great, but I think it can still improve. How can it improve? By giving each weapon a “Special ability”. Special abilities would be small additions to weapons that separate them from other weapons aside from damage, speed, and range.
Swords: Swords would get “Sweeping” (AOE). This would be like the vanilla attack. It does less damage to each individual entity but hits multiple in front. When shifting all attacks would be this.
Daggers: Daggers already have their special ability and that is poison. But they could get another poison variant, slowness. The green on poison daggers would be blue if they have this poison. It would be made by combining a dagger with a bottle of paralysing poison. This poison would be gotten by “Milking” blue Mirkwood spiders. Only DG would have this kind of dagger.
Hammer: (Not sure if hammers should get one as they already have knockback) Hammers occasionally (50%?) would deal more damage to armour. (instead of 1 durability they would take 2-3). This effect won’t work on leather/ Cloth armours.
Mace: When hitting an entity with a mace there would be a chance to “daze” them (10%?). “Dazing” would afflict them with either slowness, blindness, or nausea for no more than 10 seconds (not sure for how long 3 seconds?). Only 1 status can be applied per hit. Because of this, maces may need to be slower.
Club: Holding right click would “charge” the club up. Stage 1 would do more damage to armour, Stage 2 would increase damage by 1 and Stage 3 would be AOE (is this too OP compared to the others?).
Pike: Pikes would have a chance to dismount riders (if not possible do more damage).
War scythe: They would get sweeping like swords.
Lance: Not sure what a lance would get, they’re already decent weapons on horseback. Increased swing speed on horseback?
Shield: Shields would be a new craft able item, crafted like the vanilla Minecraft shield. It would be used like the vanilla one as well. With this shield, would also be a shield slot (or off hand if Mevans wants to). Players can’t use a shield if using a 2 handed weapon (Pike, Warhammer, battle-axe etc.)
Shields could be dyed changing the colour of the shield, if a player has a ME shield chosen the shield would have that texture.
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