Agreed with this, think of how much harder it'll become to raid a castle for example, it'll be great for PvP servers, it can be put to tactical use for clan bases and such.
And it's not Jeb that is going to far, it was Notch a whole while back with the potions/enchants, not thinking about how those would ruin the SMP PvP experience with imbalance. Jeb is merely trying to fix this by adding more features and content to Minecraft, which is great imo, the new content (Wither boss, item frames, pig control with carrots) is pretty fitting and should've been in minecraft a long time ago already.
If only the whole enchantment system would be revamped, a lot of damage would be fixed, together with some limiting (firerate, length) on potions, and some more rewarding (unique) loot from dungeons and such.
My opinion is based on various other opinions from a lot of players that play on the Windoom SMP server. A whole discussion about the PvP aspect of MC can be found overhere:
http://www.windoom.com/forum/m/3872438/ ... #p23205291Even though Minecraft PvP isn't much compared to most other games, it shouldn't be neglected as there is A LOT of room for improvement (damage counters above enemies for example).
