Okay, so let me preface this by saying I'm still pretty much a noob. I've mastered brewing and enchanting, but I'm an absolute amateur at redstone and building in general. When it comes to the Nether, is see it as an absolute gauntlet. In my eyes, the Ender Dragon is a walk in the park in comparison. I always play on hard mode, so that might have something to do with it, but I think most in this subreddit do as well, so I digress.

Just had a great trip to the Nether. Went in at level 8 or so with the intention of collecting as much Nether Quartz as possible for the "Mayor's Office" I'm trying to build in my streaming community world. Ended up stumbling upon a Nether Fortess and conquered it, taking home two sets of diamond horse armor, a set of gold horse armor, ten diamonds, a half stack or so of iron, a Wither Skeleton Skull, three stacks of Nether Brick (gonna need it for another structure I'll be building for the community soon), a couple Ghast Tears, and enough Nether Quartz for three stacks of quartz blocks. The cherry on top is that I managed to make it back to my portal at a flat level 40, giving me some wiggle room to try for some rare enchantments (Silk Touch comes to mind, I want to harvest the Blaze Spawner I found in the Fortress).

No real point to this post, I guess. Just wanted to share a tale of my conquest. Anybody else had extremely satisfying Nether trips that went way better than expected?

After the controversial change to observers (which I completely understand, but that's beside the point), u/poswar pointed out that Mojang is actually planning to 'fix' bow boosting.

Source: http://ift.tt/2dD6Abw

When you bow boost while flying with elytra you can stay in the air forever at the cost of health. You basically have to shoot yourself with a punch 2 bow while gliding and the knockback will shoot you upwards, allowing you to fly infinitely. Bow boosting takes a lot of practice to master and raises Minecraft's (relatively low) skill ceiling, which is always a healthy thing in any game.

Bow boosting is a lot like rocket jumping in the game Team Fortress 2. It was initially a random thing that happened because of the way the game worked, but the community loved it and the devs rolled with it and embraced it and now it's a core feature in the game.

Please Mojang, see bow boosting as a feature instead of a bug because it's so much fun! If you wanna change it however, because I do agree that it is OP at the moment, nerf it instead of removing it. My suggestion is that arrows you shoot to hit yourself will take extra durability from the elytra, possibly ignoring the unbreaking enchantment.