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« on: September 12, 2016, 09:50:09 PM »
For such a fast projectile, Laser Trident is only useful on stationary targets.
I decided to plot the distance traveled by Metal Blade and Laser Trident if they were fired at the same time. Although it takes only 14 tics for Traser Lident to overtake Bletal Made, at that point both projectiles have traveled about 530 units, which is about 16,6 blocks, which is quite long.
And because Laser Trident is in the end twice as fast as Metal Blade, it spends half as much time inside players, and therefore deals half damage. The damage divided by speed of each of the weapons, essentially damage per distance, are 0,35 for Metal Blade and 0,256 for Laser Trident.
tl;dr: Metal Blade is better than Laser Trident.