I was playing on a Vanilla Survival server, and I enchant a diamond sword to Sharpness 3, Knockback 2, Looting 2, and Fire Aspect 2. Is this the best sword enchantment?
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I'm not sure if it's the "best" enchantment, as people will have their own preferences, but to me that sounds like a really nice set of enchantments on that sword! Should be enough to sweep quite a few mobs in a hit or two!
I think the best sword enchantment is a question of prefernece, allthough I think InfiteNexus came really close.
But I also personally don't like Knockback, as well as I think having Fire Aspect on a Looting sword is rather useless.
Excuse my bad english, I'm Austrian.
You can't go wrong with Sharpness. All the others have some sort of a negative synergy with another enchantment (well, sharpness and knockback, but that problem is present even if you don't have sharpness).
Smite is only effective against certain mobs.
Bane of Arthopods is only effective against a few mobs (they even have less health than the rest).
Knockback is better for the opponent if they have a bow or a fire aspect sword than it is for you, but it's good for you if you have fire aspect. It lowers DPS so it's only useful if combined with fire aspect or if you need to run.
Fire Aspect's fire can deal the finishing blow to a mob, which will cause you to lose mob drops if you have a looting sword.
Looting's effect can be ninja'd by Fire Aspect.
I'd say it would be - Sharpness IV, Fire aspect II, Knockback II, Looting III.
Now that we can combine enchanted gear with the anvil, the best sword for single player is Smite V, Knockback II, Fire Aspect II and Looting III(not really required in PvP), and for PvP the best sword is the same with the only difference being the Sharpness V instead of the Smite V, because Sharpness does extra damage to everything including players by 0.5 to 1.5 hearts, but the Smite only does extra damage to zombies, pigmen, withers and skelletons but its more with 0.5 to 2.0 hearts. Since you dont meet other players for PvP in singleplayer, you would want the Smite sword to defend yourself better againts the mobs + the Looting III for more drops.
That's not possible I think. Correct my if I'm wrong, but doesn't something come up saying its too expensive, unless your in creative?
Looting or Fire Aspect. That's just my opinion, but everyone has different opinions.
They're all good- but Sharpness, Knockback, and Fire Aspect are the best. You can injure a creeper in the initial attack pretty bad, then watch it go flying back, and see it burn to death.
No, it doesn't burn the drops, but fire steals the kills from the sword.
If you hit a mob with a Fire Aspect II/Looting III sword and the fire deals the finishing blow, you get the normal drops (plus cooked meat if it drops meat).
If you hit a mob with a Fire Aspect II/Looting III sword and the sword deals the finishing blow, you get the increased drops.
I'd say any amount of sharpness ( V or IV is good though) and some knockback, maybe I or II. Good for cramped areas and to see the creepers just go FLYING.
But I'd say the best for plain combat is a combo of sharpness and knockback. hit the guy, he takes sword damage and impact damage!
,I'd have to agree with most people and say that Sharpness IV, Fire Aspect II, Knockback II, and Looting III is definitely the most rewarding and overpowered weapon in Vanilla Minecraft.
Fire Aspect and Sharpness is awesome. I just love how deadly it is.
I do believe they are the best enchantments. They are just not the highest level of enchantment.
Usually, unbreaking is better than looting. It depends on your preference, though.
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I just got my diamond sword sharpness 5, fire aspect 2, looting 2, unbreaking 3.
I currently have a sharpness IV diamond sword. Never have more cave spiders been slaughtered.
So I'd say sharpness then.