Maces

Maces is one of mcMMO's newer combat skills, built around the vanilla mace weapon. You train it by hitting enemies with a mace, and it pays you back with flat bonus damage (Crush), a chance to slow your target (Cripple), and a PvP-focused Limit Break that ramps up your damage against lightly-armoured opponents.

Maces has no left-click super ability: it's a pure combat skill whose sub-skills all trigger automatically when you land hits.

Earning XP

You earn Maces XP from the damage you deal to mobs and players with a mace, the same way the other combat skills work. Each mob type carries an XP multiplier (Combat.Multiplier in experience.yml). Tough mobs like the Warden (×6), Wither Skeleton (×4) and Creeper (×4) are worth far more per point of damage than passive animals (×1).

Crush: bonus damage

Crush adds flat bonus damage to every mace hit. The bonus is a base amount plus a per-rank amount:

Crush bonus = Base_Damage + (rank × Rank_Damage_Multiplier)

With the default tuning (advanced.yml):

Maces:
    Crush:
        Base_Damage: 0.5
        Rank_Damage_Multiplier: 1.0

So Crush adds 0.5 + rank extra damage:

The Crush bonus is scaled by your attack strength. Spamming attacks before the vanilla attack cooldown recharges reduces the bonus, the same as vanilla critical damage. (This can be disabled server-side with Skills.General.Attack_Cooldown.Adjust_Skills_For_Attack_Cooldown.)

Cripple: slowing your target

Cripple gives a chance, on hit, to apply Slowness to your target. The chance per hit depends on your Cripple rank (and is also scaled by your attack strength):

Cripple chance = rank chance × attack strength

When Cripple lands:

(In code, the slowness amplifier is 1 for players and 2 for mobs; Minecraft amplifiers are zero-indexed, so that's Slowness II and Slowness III respectively.)

Cripple won't apply if the target is already slowed, and it only rolls when the hit doesn't kill the target. These durations and amplifiers are currently hard-coded and not configurable.

Maces Limit Break

Maces Limit Break is a PvP-oriented sub-skill that adds bonus damage scaling with its rank, but the more armour your target is wearing, the less it adds. It unlocks in 10 ranks:

The raw bonus equals your rank, then it's cut down based on the total armour quality of the defending player:

So Limit Break punishes lightly-armoured opponents the least and rewards you for breaking through heavier armour. At rank 10 against a fully-armoured target it adds up to +10 raw damage (before attack-strength scaling).

Commands & permissions

See Permissions for the full list and how to assign them.

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