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sorry but to say vanilla gear and weapons can handle the mobs modded servers are serving up is just uninformed. and no, cheesing a mob with 10,000 arrows over 16 hours is not appropriate (‘cheesing’ is seen as cheating on many servers)
as for existing mods, yes existing mods have taken steps to enable better stats to face bigger threats but that requires the weapons and gear to be “baked in” by the mod devs. if the gear had the ability to be upgraded by the core game functions simply by dropping or awarding certain types of items and combining them with the targeted pieces then it makes everyone’s life easier.
and of course, for you vanilla types, it would probably not even be noticed in your games.