Fisherman builds

[Azael]

So, I did D5 Fisherman today, however I kinda struggled hard with him. Played him with Sticks, but finally won with Spears. However at no point in the run it was easy going. I got hit so often and so hard, that I had to rely on Armor + Max Dodge + Adrenaline and High HP regen to survive. Initial Onslaught was never a problem, but later in the wave the spawned fish-mobs (?) accumulated and I basically was only trying to survive.

How did you guys do fisherman? Was it also hard?

[Deathraven13]

If you had a video we could see what you did wrong.

Fisherman requiere to have some dodging skills if you take baits, doesn't need to be Godlike but if you are very bad at dodging you'll have trouble.

Go to options and put the difficulty sliders to the lowest next time you have trouble with D5.

That's all I can think of, for me it wasn't very hard but I'm used to dodging so my reaction skill is above average I guess. Maybe I have a video of the fisherman challenge to show, maybe you'll learn something after seeing it.

[Nirvash]

I found that since the idea is you are supposed to keep buying bait and thus spawning spammy enemies, the best option for me was slingshots. 2 different armor buffs and a dodge buff, plus the ability to damage enemies far away thanks to the slingshot's bounce. From there the tactic was trying to maximize survival stats like hp regen and speed to just run away while the slinghots spam damage all over the map.

[Bumc]

Shields spam works fine.
You have early AoE to deal with spawns, a bit less safe than spears but manageable.
You can invest in armor and it double-dips on damage which is nice.
Regen is too slow to save you, but the usual Luck + health from consumables + mob density works fine.

With shields the low speed is also a problem that requires fixing, but you get a bunch of defensive stats for free.

For me the hardest was not to kill myself spawning too many baits early, and wave 7, because you cannot really dodge both fish and spiders with low speed.

[Curiousfellow]

Fisherman was hard for me as well. What ended up helping was getting regen early. Waves generally ramp up over time, so there's a quiet period after you deal with the initial surge of fish to heal up on. I never struggled to stay alive during the late fish spawns, though. Once I got enough bait and good enough spears I was killing things really quickly, so late game fish didn't stick around for long. I also got a candle and a white flag since most of fisherman's economy comes from harvesting and cheap %damage, and that probably helped to keep things managable.

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one of the easiest imo
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2994649213

[Deathraven13]

Originally posted by CHIPOLLINO:

one of the easiest imo
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2994649213

Good job. HP regen, dodge and lifesteal, I know someone will be mad about you reaching wave 44.

Well OP did CHIPOLLINO answered your topic ?

[Azael]

Thanks chipollino for posting your experience, I'll try that build. And no, it doesn't answer the topic. I wanted a discussion about experience with the class, I did not want an answer to a certain question.

Also, Deathraven thank for trying to help me, but since you said yourself you have problems with D0 - D4, I don't think I should take advice from you. Also, it's okay you need to set diff slider to low, but I'm fine with them on normal :). Also, I cannot trust you that you can beat the game at all with this class, since you didn't post a screenshot.

[Deathraven13]

Originally posted by Azael:

Thanks chipollino for posting your experience, I'll try that build. And no, it doesn't answer the topic. I wanted a discussion about experience with the class, I did not want an answer to a certain question.

Also, Deathraven thank for trying to help me, but since you said yourself you have problems with D0 - D4, I don't think I should take advice from you. Also, it's okay you need to set diff slider to low, but I'm fine with them on normal :)

yes I've struggled hard in D0-D4 when I started playing, then once I've reached D5 I was good enough to beat D5 without trouble.

You've said:

Originally posted by Azael:

So, I did D5 Fisherman today, however I kinda struggled hard with him.[...]
How did you guys do fisherman? Was it also hard?

So CHIPOLLINO comment sounds like the answer to me. If you struggle that hard you can lower the difficulty in the option, remember that you are struggling in Vampire Survivor too since you can't do the HIGEST DIFFICULTY, the real one because for you using golden eggs and aracanas but no Inverse mode was the HIGHEST DIFFICULTY but it was as if you've played D5 with all difficulty sliders down so don't worry it's ok if you are not good in both games.

CHIPOLLINO build should help a lot of players if players actualy struggle in D5.

Originally posted by CHIPOLLINO:

one of the easiest imo
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2994649213

[Azael]

It sound like to you because you do not understand really well. I want multiple opinions not a single one.

If you have nothing to add to the topic please refrain from further spamming here. If you have the urge to talk, you can use your alt account.

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alright
r1 grab shotgun kill as many enemy as u could also focus on choping down the trees
as level reward take 1+ range dmg or move speed (u need about 6-9% move speed to easeally dodge thouse worms attack early on)
r2 buy all shotguns u offered and start buying 1 bait every other round(exepts boss rounds)
r3-r9 focus on taking all range dmg from items and lvl reward (try to get 30hp)
in about round 6-7 u should start feel that bait worms are became a joke to u so buy 1-2more baits every round
get abouy 5% life steal
r10+ start working on u armour and doddge buy every bait (so take X free rerolls are good idea
artifacts i wanna suggest to this build
+1 bounce (as manny as u can find)
+atleast 2 pumpkins
+ extra piercing
+crit deals 1% current boss health

end on 163 baits
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2994649200

[Deathraven13]

Originally posted by CHIPOLLINO:

alright
r1 grab shotgun kill as many enemy as u could also focus on choping down the trees
as level reward take 1+ range dmg or move speed (u need about 6-9% move speed to easeally dodge thouse worms attack early on)
r2 buy all shotguns u offered and start buying 1 bait every other round(exepts boss rounds)
r3-r9 focus on taking all range dmg from items and lvl reward (try to get 30hp)
in about round 6-7 u should start feel that bait worms are became a joke to u so buy 1-2more baits every round
get abouy 5% life steal
r10+ start working on u armour and doddge buy every bait (so take X free rerolls are good idea
artifacts i wanna suggest to this build
+1 bounce (as manny as u can find)
+atleast 2 pumpkins
+ extra pirce
+crit deals 1% current boss health

That's a pretty good build, thank you for sharing it, now even OP can probably beat D5 with fisherman without much trouble.

Have you tried the fisherman challenge yet ? (Must always pick baits, must always reroll if you have money to do so in order to take bait unless you'll end up at 0, since bait cost 1 rerolling to get nothing is not right).

If your build can crush that then It's probably one of the best build for fisherman.

[Prometheus]

I beat Fisherman buying 2-3 baits every round. Spears and attack speed. Ignore crit, you have enough raw damage to one shot most things. Because your damage is covered with some chase on attack speed the rest of your money you can focus on defenses.

[midori]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2994776940

Went with lifesteal knives, got a couple medkits, got a couple rip and tears. Was absolutely unstoppable towards the end

[Eggplant]

Best Fisherman build:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2995274265

[HeraldOfOpera]

Originally posted by Eggplant:

Best Fisherman build:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2995274265

That 1000% damage bonus nicely illustrates how ridiculous Fisherman can get. What other potato can get that kind of power, besides pre-nerf Streamer?