Tech X

For all Tech items, check Tech (disambiguation)

Tech X is a passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.

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.
- 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.
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.
- With the charge bars option enabled, the rings can be released immediately as the charge bar appears for easier gauging of maximum damage output.
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: 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.
  - 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.
  - Overrides Tainted Azazel's Brimstone.
- Brimstone + Technology: The damage boost from Brimstone+Technology is lost, but the laser fires while charging the brimstone ring.
- 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.
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.
Explosivo: Tech X rings can sometimes create an explosivo tear that sticks to enemies on hit.
Haemolacria: Haemolacria tears will burst into 3-5 Tech X rings on impact.
Lost Contact: Tech X rings are able to block projectiles as they travel.
Mom's Knife: Simultaneously fires the knife and laser ring(s).
- : Overrides Tech X.
Monstro's Lung: Extra laser rings with different sizes depending on how long Isaac charges it are fired, will increase charge time.
Mucormycosis: Hitting enemies has a chance to stick a spore to them.
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.
Technology: Fires a linear laser while charging Tech X.
- : Overridden by Tech X.
Technology 2: Fires a linear laser while charging Tech X.
Wiggle Worm: Replaces the outer laser ring with a star-shaped oval, slightly increasing its area of effect.

Interactions[]

Almond Milk: Fires automatically upon reaching full charge. Tech X overrides the worm trinket effects.
Anti-Gravity: Only tear delay down applies.
Apple!: Only tears up applies, without a chance of high-damage rings.
- 4x damage will apply randomly at each damage tick depending on Isaac's luck stat.
Azazel: Azazel's brimstone overrides Tech X.
- Tech X overrides Azazel's brimstone.
Brain Worm: No effect.
Chocolate Milk: Doesn't increase damage, but reduces Isaac's tear delay by 20%.
- Overridden by Tech X.
Continuum + Incubus: Incubus's laser rings cannot go through walls.
- Works as expected.
Cricket's Body/ The Parasite/ Compound Fracture: Only stat effects, if any, apply.
Cricket's Body: Shoots out smaller tears on hit.
Cursed Eye: Overridden by Tech X.
Dead Eye: Overridden by Tech X.
Euthanasia: No high-damage/instant death rings.
- Effect of Euthanasia applies randomly on every tick of the ring.
Evil Eye: Overridden by Tech X.
Explosivo: Overridden by Tech X.
- Regular explosive tears may stick to enemies in contact with the laser.
Eye of the Occult: Overridden by Tech X.
Fire Mind: Laser rings set enemies on fire and do not explode.
Flat Stone: Overridden by Tech X.
The Forgotten / Tainted Forgotten: A laser ring forms around the bone toss attack. The Soul uses Tech X normally, and 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.
Head of the Keeper: Overridden by Tech X.
- 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: Overridden by Tech X.
Holy Light: Overridden by Tech X.
- The lasers can create beams of light.
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.
Ipecac: Overridden by Tech X. The damage bonus is lost upon entering a different room. Still poisons enemies like Ipecac does.
- +4 damage and poisons enemies.
- Tech X ring causes an explosion on every rock or enemy it passes through.
Lachryphagy: Overridden by Tech X.
Lead Pencil: Overridden by Tech X.
- Every 15th laser ring fired also shoots a cluster of tears.
Little Horn: Overridden by Tech X.
- Occasionally fires a Little Horn laser ring.
Loki's Horns: Overridden by Tech X.
- 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.
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.
- The damage is normal at point blank range but the damage increase per tile is significantly lower.
Marked: Only stat changes apply, no targeting effect.
- 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.
Mom's Eye: Overridden by Tech X.
- Isaac will now sometimes fire an additional ring from his back.
My Reflection: Only stat changes apply.
Neptunus: Overridden by Tech X.
Parasitoid: Overridden by Tech X.
Proptosis: The ring's damage and size substantially increase, but decreases the further it travels.
Pop!: Overridden by Tech X.
Pupula Duplex: Overridden by Tech X.
Rubber Cement: Overridden by Tech X.
- The rings now bounce off walls.
Soy Milk : Fires automatically upon reaching full charge.
Sulfuric Acid: Only damage up applies.
- The ring has a chance to destroy Obstacles.
Tammy's Head: Tammy's head fires regular tears.
Technology Zero: Overridden by Tech X.
Terra: Tech X laser can destroy Obstacles. Also greatly increases laser knockback.
Tiny Planet: Overridden by Tech X.
Tough Love: Overridden by Tech X.
- 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.
Trisagion: Overridden by Tech X.