Eye of Greed

Item Icon
Pickup Quote	"Gold tears!"
Entity ID	5.100.450
Character Appearance
Item Pool	Secret Room Secret Room Treasure Room
Quality	2
Item Tags
Collection Grid	(page 4, column 5, row 5) (page 4, column 6, row 5)
Unlock Method	Defeat Ultra Greedier as Keeper

Eye of Greed is an unlockable passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth †.

Effects

• Adds a golden tear every 20 tears fired, which causes enemies to turn gold and petrifies them for a few seconds (similar to Midas' Touch) at the cost of one coin. Golden tears can still be fired if Isaac has no money.
  • Unlike other tear effects, golden tears are fired alongside regular tears rather than replacing a regular tear.
  • With multi-shot abilities, whichever tear is the 20th since previous will produce the additional golden tear.
  • The golden tear does 2x normal damage.
    • If Isaac has no money, the golden tear does normal tear damage. If Isaac does have money, the golden tear deals 1.5x normal damage + 10.
  • Enemies killed while golden will drop 1-4 coins.
  • If Isaac has money, golden tears that hit enemies will drop a penny, effectively returning the cost.

Notes

• Tears fired from items that cause multiple tears to be fired at once, e.g. 20/20, Monstro's Lung etc., are counted.
  • The gold tear is not duplicated by said items.
• The Forgotten has separate tear counters for The Forgotten and Soul.
• Using this item is an easy way of unlocking Golden Razor after obtaining 99 coins late-game, since it drains them by just shooting and with enough patience it will reduce their count to 0.

Synergies

• Chocolate Milk: How much the 20th tear was charged determines the size and damage of the golden tear.
• Compound Fracture/The Parasite/Cricket's Body: Golden tears will still look like coins and will still split into other golden coins when hitting obstacles.
• : Affects coins dropped from hitting enemies, allowing Isaac to potentially farm money.
• Lachryphagy: Golden tears can also be fed and will burst into split tears. Burst tears are not golden.

Interactions

• Brimstone: Overrides Eye of Greed.
  • Occasionally fires a coin tear with the beam.
• Diplopia: No effect.
• Dr. Fetus: Overrides Eye of Greed.
• Epic Fetus: Overrides Eye of Greed.
  • Occasionally fires a coin tear with the cross.
• Flat Stone: No effect.
• Lost Contact: No effect.
• The Ludovico Technique: Overrides Eye of Greed.
  • Isaac occasionally fires a coin tear towards the controlled tear. May not be advantageous, because it's not possible to ,,stop shooting" when using The Ludovico Technique, making the item drain your coins even when you don't need to shoot them.
• Mom's Knife: Overrides Eye of Greed.
  • Occasionally fires a coin tear in addition to the knife.
• Technology: Overrides Eye of Greed.
• Tech X: Overrides Eye of Greed.
• Incubus: Does not shoot a golden tear.

Seeds

Switch 6GW8 CG48 (First Golden Treasure Room)

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