Give tridents some kind of combat buff.
Currently they are out done by a sword in melee combat in both attack speed and damage. As well as being out done in ranged combat by bows and cross bows in fire rate and damage while lacking the ability to use tipped arrows.
No one uses them in combat because they are out done by every other weapon and are expensive to boot
So I propose they get some kind of buff preferably something that lends them to a unique combat style but a damage buff would be fine.
A couple of options for this:
Slight range increase this would be accurate the the use of a trident as its basically a spear (i fear this might be to op thou)
Allow the effects of icy and blast runes to effect melee as well as ranged with a trident (this may still need to come with a damage buff)
Allow tridents to be tipped with potion effects that work in melee and ranged
Allow sharpness to be put on a trident as the damage buff