Tridents

Tridents is one of mcMMO's newer combat skills, covering melee fighting with a trident. It's a lean skill compared to the older ones: it has just two working sub-skills, both of which add damage. You train it by stabbing mobs and players in melee with a trident.

Earning XP

Tridents is a combat skill, so XP comes from the melee damage you deal with a trident. mcMMO multiplies the target's lost health by the mob's combat multiplier (from experience.yml) and then by 10:

Tridents XP ≈ damage dealt × (mob Combat Multiplier) × 10

A few of those multipliers (Experience_Values.Combat.Multiplier):

XP tracks the health the target actually loses (no reward for overkill). With the default combat XP ceiling on, a single hit's damage is capped at 100 for XP.

Impale: bonus melee damage

Impale is your core passive: it adds flat bonus damage to every trident melee hit. It has 10 ranks.

Bonus damage formula

Impale bonus = Base_Damage + (rank × Rank_Damage_Multiplier)

With the defaults Base_Damage = 1.0 and Rank_Damage_Multiplier = 0.5 (from advanced.yml):

Tridents:
    Impale:
        Base_Damage: 1.0
        Rank_Damage_Multiplier: 0.5

At max rank, Impale adds a flat +6 damage (3 hearts) on top of the trident's normal hit.

Tridents Limit Break: punching through armor

Limit Break is mcMMO's anti-armor scaling, shared in spirit with the other combat skills. It adds flat bonus damage that grows with rank and is tuned to keep tridents threatening against heavily-armored opponents. It has 10 ranks, one every 10 levels (Standard) / 100 levels (RetroMode):

Bonus damage

Limit Break bonus = rank × armor-quality modifier

The base bonus is your rank (1–10), then scaled by the defender's armor:

Against mobs, armor quality is treated as 1000, so the full bonus applies, if PVE Limit Break is enabled.

Commands & permissions

The real nodes have no underscores (tridentslimitbreak). See Permissions for the full list.

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