Diamond Armor

Gun damage in general will be lowered soon, standard sheriff armor will be unenchanted iron armor and kevlar will be reduced to Protection II iron armor. Protection 4 or even Protection 2 diamond armor would be way too good and unfair for the Sheriffs considering that they have multiple disadvantages in combat already.

 

Alright, Sheriffs buy prot 3 iron gear that is kevlar not diamond anymore.

Prot 4 diamond would undeniably make a player really op seeing how they can easily get the first hit on the sheriff. Even then you're nearly invincible from normal sword players without guns. You would also add in the fact that players get angry over "I got cuffed in combat by a sheriff and lost all my prot 4 gear!" Overall if this was implented the price would be like 150k to 200k. Then you made it a "Richest team wins" and the server would fall apart due to that team being nearly invincible. (Think of a faction server that has been out for years without one reset. Try and start up on it and you would find yourself hopelessly out matched by a single team with all prot 4 and sharp v swords.)

Basically what we have now is fine.

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Although I believe sheriff guns need a slight nerf to be more balanced with the illegals. Being 2 shotted by players is almost impossible that is if you just stand still and take 2 full on model shots. T-Gewehr deals about 3.5 hearts upon head shot making it a 3 head shot kill and body shots only doing 2 full hearts. Sheriffs coach gun is able to do 8.5 hearts upon full body shots and repeater can do 8 hearts head shot. Nerfing that down a tad would be fair.

Example of sheriff weapon damages would be after a slight nerf
Repeater: 2.5 hearts body shot (4 hearts head shot)
Coach gun: 6.5-7 hearts body (9-9.5 hearts head shot) "All bullets (Snowballs) landing on the player"
Revolver: (Don't know, never been shot with this gun while full D to tell you)

Now I think that would be a decent list of nerfs as it would make sheriff guns more op than illegals but only slightly.