And for all those people that say 1.9 requires "more skill", here's why you're wrong:
1) Fishing Rods- Fishing rods required a lot of skill I'm 1.8 but in 1.9 they do nothing
2) The Cooldown- People say that the cooldown requires a lot of skill while in reality once you mastered the timing basically nothing more is required.
3) Dual Wielding- Because people can hold a sword in one hand and a bow in another, basically no item swapping is required. I've played a few games of survival games and I try to fight someone and I am winning the melee fight, but then they run away and just bow spam me... every... single.... time. What's even worse is you can't tell when someone is shooting a bow at all.
4) Potion Arrows- Just no. Outside of the spectral arrows (because of people who hide at the end of the game) these just ruin the game.
1. Fishing rods actually do something, they are just bugged on Cube at the moment.
2. Ofcourse there is, you can shield block, shoot a few arrows, etc.
3. If they run away, they could always just item swap, so that's no big deal.
4. That's your opinion, I like them alot.
5. There is no 5, but I'm just going out and say this: they
might remove sword cooldown. I have heard some rummors here and there.