✓ Fire Aspect, great for pre-cooking all your meals and adds extra damage to all enemies.
✓ Looting, more and better drops.
✓ Unbreaking, improved durability.
✓ Sharpness, increase damage.
× Smite, great for the undead, but we like a general purpose sword.
× Bane, great for spiders, but we don’t need a sword just for them.
✓ Knockback, put some distance between you and your enemies.
✓ Mending, convert XP orbs into repair for your sword.