The Relic Piercer is a harpoon gun in Fisch built around fast, repeated pulls and a strong value passive. Its one weak point is a slightly negative resilience stat, so the enchant you pick should protect progress during a catch while feeding into the weapon’s rapid-click reeling.
Quick answer: Put Chainshot on the Relic Piercer. It raises velocity, resilience, and progress speed a little more with every perfect catch, which cancels out the harpoon’s −5% resilience and speeds up its multi-click pull.
Relic Piercer base stats
The Relic Piercer is a crafted harpoon gun with a balanced stat spread and a single soft spot in resilience. These are its numbers at max level.
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Power | 25 |
| Range | 90 studs |
| Reload | 2.5 seconds |
| Velocity | 70/ps |
| Resilience | −5% |
| Accuracy | 20% |
| Maximum weight | 50,000 kg |
| Relic mutation chance | 35% (6.5× value) |
It is crafted at the Harpoon Gun anvil inside the Ancient Archives for 175,000 C$, using three Moonstone, one Marrow Meg’s Spine, and two Scrap Metal, with no level requirement.
Why Chainshot is the best enchant
Chainshot scales as you keep landing perfect catches. Each clean catch adds a small boost to velocity, resilience, and progress speed, and those bonuses stack the more you fish without failing. That growth lines up with everything the Relic Piercer already wants to do.
The resilience gain is the most important part. Because the Relic Piercer sits at −5% resilience by default, it loses a bit of progress when a fish fights back. Chainshot’s climbing resilience closes that gap, so long catches become far more consistent as your streak builds.
The velocity and progress-speed bonuses do the rest. Higher velocity gets the harpoon out faster, and extra progress speed shortens the reeling minigame, which matters a lot on a weapon designed around rapid input.
How the pull mechanic feeds Chainshot
The Relic Piercer has a unique reeling rule. Each pull button can be clicked 2 to 4 times, and every click grants extra progress. Quick, accurate clicking turns into large chunks of progress instead of a single pull.
Chainshot’s progress-speed bonus multiplies the value of that fast clicking. The more perfect catches you chain, the more each burst of clicks moves the bar, so the two systems compound as a run goes on.
Why consistency matters: the Relic mutation
The Relic Piercer carries a passive 35% chance to apply the Relic mutation, which multiplies a fish’s value by 6.5×. That is a big payout, but you only collect it if you actually land the catch.
This is the core reason to prioritize reliability over raw luck. Every failed catch is a lost shot at a 6.5× fish. Chainshot keeps your catch rate high on strong targets like Sovereign Xiphactinus, Sovereign Helicoprion, and Big Atlantean Hyneria, so the mutation pays off more often.
When cosmic enchants are worth swapping in
Cosmic enchants can help for one specific target fish, where a situational bonus is exactly what you need for a single catch. In those cases, swapping temporarily can be the right call.
For everyday use, keep Chainshot as the permanent enchant. Its stacking bonuses reward long fishing sessions and steady catch rates, which is where the Relic Piercer earns the most value. Treat cosmic options as a temporary tool, not a replacement.
The short version: stays the same across targets. Chainshot fixes the harpoon’s only weak stat, speeds up its click-heavy reeling, and protects the high-value catches the Relic mutation is built to reward.
