Tech X

Effects

Isaac's tears are replaced with ring-shaped lasers.
- Shots can be charged to increase the size of the rings.
- Only the outer circumference of the rings will deal damage.
- Rings pass through obstacles and enemies.
- Rings have infinite range and will travel until they hit a wall.
- (Added in Repentance) Damage dealt is based on the amount charged, starting at 25% Isaac's damage and scaling to 100% at maximum charge.
  - The numbers above occur with very high tear delay. A high tears stat can increase the minimum damage dealt, but decreases the maximum damage dealt.
    - At 30.00 fire rate or above (0 tear delay or lower), charging is no longer needed. Higher fire rate results in higher laser damage. At 120.00 fire rate, rings deal 100% Isaac's damage per tick.

Notes

The rings are similar in appearance to the combination of The Ludovico Technique and Technology.
The laser rings will linger for a brief moment upon touching a wall, allowing more damage to be dealt to enemies closer to walls.
The "R U A WIZARD?" pill effect does not work with Tech X.
(Removed in Repentance) Charging only increases size, not damage. It is useful for hard-to-hit enemies or hitting a wide area at once, but spamming small, uncharged shots will lead to much higher damage output.
- (Added in Afterbirth † / Removed in Repentance) With the charge bars option enabled, the rings can be released immediately as the charge bar appears for easier gauging of maximum damage output.
(Added in Repentance) The maximum ring size is slightly smaller in Repentance.

Synergies

20/20: Fires two Tech X rings instead of one.
Brimstone: Fires a brimstone ring. This brimstone ring is larger than the laser ring and has a much wider hitbox.
- (Azazel) Azazel: Picking up Brimstone will still override Tech X. When you pick up Tech X as Azazel with his inherited Brimstone, Tech X does nothing at all.
  - (Added in Afterbirth †) As Azazel, Brimstone no longer overrides Tech X, instead Tech X overrides Azazel's Brimstone. This works quite well with Azazel's good initial damage stat and also negates his initial range penalty.
  - (Added in Repentance)Azazel fires a Brimstone ring instead of Tech X ring.
    - The same applies to (Tainted Azazel) Tainted Azazel.
- (Removed in Repentance) Brimstone + Technology: The damage boost from Brimstone+Technology is lost, but the laser fires while charging the brimstone ring.
- (Added in Repentance) Double Brimstone: Increases the width of the beam giving it an even larger hitbox.
Bookworm: Can fire an additional Tech X ring with same 25% chance.
(Added in Repentance) C Section: Overrides the charging effect, but shoots a laser ring with a fetus tear in the middle.
Dr. Fetus: Overrides the charging effect, but shoots a laser ring with a bomb in the middle.
Epic Fetus: Each missile shoots 10 laser beams like from Technology in each direction, similar to Tammy's Head.
(Added in Repentance) Explosivo: Tech X rings can sometimes create an explosivo tear that sticks to enemies on hit.
(Added in Afterbirth †) Haemolacria: Haemolacria tears will burst into 3-5 Tech X rings on impact.
(Added in Repentance) Lost Contact: Tech X rings are able to block projectiles as they travel.
(Removed in Repentance) Mom's Knife: Simultaneously fires the knife and laser ring(s).
- (Added in Repentance): The knife is fired with a Tech X ring around it, similarly to the forgotten's club throw.
Monstro's Lung: Extra laser rings with different sizes depending on how long Isaac charges it are fired, will increase charge time.
(Added in Repentance) Mucormycosis: Hitting enemies has a chance to stick a spore to them.
(Added in Repentance) Rubber Cement: The rings bounce off walls once and have infinite range.
Spoon Bender: While the rings won't home in on enemies, they will bend inwards to hit enemies within each ring, resulting in a substantial damage area increase.
Strange Attractor: Magnetic effect pulls pickups and objects to the edge of the ring, increasing accuracy.
Tech.5: Occasionally fires a linear laser while charging Tech X.
(Removed in Repentance) Technology: Fires a linear laser while charging Tech X.
- (Added in Repentance): Overridden by Tech X.
Technology 2: Fires a linear laser while charging Tech X.
(Wiggle Worm) Wiggle Worm: Replaces the outer laser ring with a star-shaped oval, slightly increasing its area of effect.

Interactions

(Added in Repentance) Almond Milk: Fires automatically upon reaching full charge. Tech X overrides the worm trinket effects.
Anti-Gravity: Only tear delay down applies.
(Added in Afterbirth † / Removed in Repentance) Apple!: Only tears up applies, without a chance of high-damage rings.
- (Added in Repentance) 4x damage will apply randomly at each damage tick depending on Isaac's luck stat.
(Removed in Afterbirth †) (Azazel) Azazel: Azazel's brimstone overrides Tech X.
- (Added in Afterbirth †) Tech X overrides Azazel's brimstone.
(Added in Repentance)(Brain Worm) Brain Worm: No effect.
(Removed in Repentance) Chocolate Milk: Doesn't increase damage, but reduces Isaac's tear delay by 20%.
- (Added in Repentance)Overridden by Tech X.
(Removed in Repentance) Continuum + Incubus: Incubus's laser rings cannot go through walls.
- (Added in Repentance)Works as expected.
Cricket's Body/ The Parasite/(Added in Afterbirth †) Compound Fracture: Only stat effects, if any, apply.
(Added in Repentance) Cricket's Body: Shoots out smaller tears on hit.
Cursed Eye: Overridden by Tech X.
Dead Eye: Overridden by Tech X.
(Added in Afterbirth †) Euthanasia: No high-damage/instant death rings.
- (Added in Repentance)Effect of Euthanasia applies randomly on every tick of the ring.
Evil Eye: Overridden by Tech X.
(Removed in Repentance) Explosivo: Overridden by Tech X.
- (Added in Repentance)Regular explosive tears may stick to enemies in contact with the laser.
(Added in Repentance) Eye of the Occult: Overridden by Tech X.
Fire Mind: Laser rings set enemies on fire and do not explode.
(Added in Afterbirth †) Flat Stone: Overridden by Tech X.
(Added in Afterbirth †) (The Forgotten) The Forgotten / (Added in Repentance) (Tainted Forgotten) Tainted Forgotten: A laser ring forms around the bone toss attack. The Soul uses Tech X normally, and (Tainted Soul) Tainted Soul cannot use it at all.
Fruit Cake: Only status effects granted by Fruit Cake work on the laser rings.
Godhead: Damaging halo effect lost, behavior of rings identical to Spoon Bender synergy.
(Removed in Repentance) Head of the Keeper: Overridden by Tech X.
- (Added in Repentance) The tears turn into the Tech X tears, but they still retain the chance to drop money on hit. This chance procs with every tick of damage, rather than with the rings themselves.
(Hook Worm) Hook Worm: Overridden by Tech X.
(Removed in Repentance) Holy Light: Overridden by Tech X.
- (Added in Repentance) The lasers can create beams of light.
(Removed in Repentance) Incubus: The rings fired by the Incubus have a fixed size; charging the ring will only increase the size of the player's own rings.
(Removed in Afterbirth †) Ipecac: Overridden by Tech X. The damage bonus is lost upon entering a different room. Still poisons enemies like Ipecac does.
- (Added in Afterbirth † / Removed in Repentance) +4 damage and poisons enemies.
- (Added in Repentance) Tech X ring causes an explosion on every rock or enemy it passes through.
(Added in Afterbirth †) Lachryphagy: Overridden by Tech X.
(Added in Afterbirth † / Removed in Repentance) Lead Pencil: Overridden by Tech X.
- (Added in Repentance) Every 15th laser ring fired also shoots a cluster of tears.
(Added in Afterbirth †) Little Horn: Overridden by Tech X.
- (Added in Repentance) Occasionally fires a Little Horn laser ring.
(Added in Afterbirth † / Removed in Repentance) Loki's Horns: Overridden by Tech X.
- (Added in Repentance) Adds a chance to fire 4 laser rings at once with 2 in front and 2 behind Isaac, each pair firing on top of each other.
The Ludovico Technique: Overridden by Tech X.
(Removed in Repentance) A Lump of Coal: Damage and size of the ring increases the further away it is from the player, but is actually roughly 2/3rds of tear damage up close. It takes a few tiles of distance to reach normal damage and go above it, with the maximum being 1.5x at roughly a room's width away.
- (Added in Repentance) The damage is normal at point blank range but the damage increase per tile is significantly lower.
(Removed in Repentance) Marked: Only stat changes apply, no targeting effect.
- (Added in Repentance) The rings are now fired automatically with ring size depending on Isaac's distance from the cursor; the further he is, the larger the rings are.
(Removed in Repentance) Mom's Eye: Overridden by Tech X.
- (Added in Repentance) Isaac will now sometimes fire an additional ring from his back.
My Reflection: Only stat changes apply.
(Added in Repentance) Neptunus: Overridden by Tech X.
(Added in Afterbirth †) Parasitoid: Overridden by Tech X.
Proptosis: The ring's damage and size substantially increase, but decreases the further it travels.
(Added in Afterbirth †) Pop!: Overridden by Tech X.
Pupula Duplex: Overridden by Tech X.
(Removed in Repentance) Rubber Cement: Overridden by Tech X.
- (Added in Repentance)The rings now bounce off walls.
(Added in Repentance) Soy Milk : Fires automatically upon reaching full charge.
(Added in Afterbirth † / Removed in Repentance) Sulfuric Acid: Only damage up applies.
- (Added in Repentance)The ring has a chance to destroy Obstacles.
Tammy's Head: Tammy's head fires regular tears.
(Added in Afterbirth †) Technology Zero: Overridden by Tech X.
(Added in Repentance) Terra: Tech X laser can destroy Obstacles. Also greatly increases laser knockback.
Tiny Planet: Overridden by Tech X.
(Removed in Repentance) Tough Love: Overridden by Tech X.
- (Added in Repentance) 3.2x damage will apply randomly at each damage tick depending on Isaac's luck stat.
Tractor Beam: Tech X overrides the beam. Any previous effects rendered moot by Tractor Beam (e.g. The Wiz) will return.
(Added in Afterbirth †) Trisagion: Overridden by Tech X.

Bugs

| (Bug) Bug! | (Removed in Afterbirth †) The black ring generated from the synergy of Dr. Fetus and Tech X behaves as a Maw of the Void ring and may cause black hearts to drop. |

| (Bug) Bug! | Having Tech X with Soy Milk / (Added in Repentance) Almond Milk and Kidney Stone causes Isaac unable to fire laser rings when Kidney Stone is active. |