Since it is hard to obtain super gapples, everyone relies on potions to stay alive, strength 2 only makes you die faster and is hard to counter with only insta heals, so without gapples, fights with strength2 would last around 5-20 seconds and without strength2, fights would last around 30s-5mins. Strength 2 is not vital, removing it would only affect the use of blaze powder. Removing strength 2 would not affect the economy because people would still brew strength 1.
Getting gapples is not simple, you have to mine for enough gold to make 8 golden blocks and then either mine trees, excavate, or trade with villagers or players for a red apple. This takes alot of time just for the gold and a little more for the apple, therefor it's not simple, collecting gold is very time consuming. I honestly don't see why it would matter to anyone if strength 2 is removed, it only ruins the fun in PvP, it also gives Pingers an easy kill.
getting red apples is not that hard i just got a stack in 10 minutes and you can make more efficient tree farm if you try
Still it stays Factions If you want PvP go on a PvP server But factions is not about PvP but about Killing people And getting there Stuff. PvP is about Killing With skills and winning On a desent way.
What's the point in spending time enchanting Prot IV if you die within 5-10 hits? You might as well just walk around with the standard chainmail armor and hope not to die. All types of armor are useless if your opponent has strength 2.
:p you must suck at PvP if you think strength 2 kills Prot4 in 5 hits Dude stop raging about this simple thing Play on a PvP only server If you want desent pvp. Jeeeeeez btw you could make sure you have strenth yourself and you could 5 hit them to :p
You clearly don't pvp on Normal Factions. Strength + sharp 5 vs Prot 4 = 5-10 hit death. I'm not raging and I'm not mad, Strength 2 is just Over Powered and I am kindly requesting it to be nerfed.
to all you people who don't think strength 2 + sharpness V, 5-8 shot people Normally it takes 20+ hits to kill someone in protection IV using a sharpness V sword. Sharpness V deals half a heart to protection IV, a little more than a full heart with a critical. Strength 1 would deal about 1 to 1 1/2 hearts, Crit being 2 1/2 hearts. That's close to a 10 hit kill. Strength 2 deals about 2 hearts, crit 2 1/2 to 3 full hearts. That said, strength 2 can 5-8 shot kill people. 1 shot kill people with no armor, if he deals a crit. I'm not supporting this. The people with strength 2 are preparing them selves for battle. If you want to win, you need to prepare yourself too. I suggest: Swiftness 1 or 2 Resistance 2 Fire protection strength 2 regeneration 1 or 2 Splash potion of weakness 2 Some golden apples at hand 10 or so. and some splash potion of healing. :P all that will surly make a fight last longer. One does not simply 'nerf' a vanilla item. but one does kinda simply remove the potion and or potion affect from the server.
