Tech X

 

"Laser ring tears"

Item ID
5.100.395

Character Appearance

Item Pool

			Crane Game
			Treasure Room
			Treasure Room

Collection Grid

(page 4, column 10, row 2)

(page 4, column 10, row 2)

(page 4, column 11, row 2)

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.

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 circle instead of a tech circle.
  • 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.
• 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: Equips both laser systems.
• Technology: Equips both laser systems.
  • : Overridden by Tech X.
• Technology 2: Equips both laser systems.
• Wiggle Worm: Replaces the outer laser ring with a star-shaped oval, slightly increasing its area of effect.

Interactions

• 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%.
• Continuum + Incubus: Incubus's laser rings cannot go through walls.
• Cricket's Body/ The Parasite/ Compound Fracture: Only stat effects, if any, apply.
• Cursed Eye: Overridden by Tech X.
• Dead Eye: Overridden by Tech X.

• Euthanasia: No high-damage/instant death rings.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. Lose the damage bonus given by Ipecac on next room. Still poisons enemies like Ipecac does.
  • +4 damage and poisons enemies.
  • Ipecac is overridden, but the 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.

• 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.
• Sulfuric Acid: Only damage up applies.
• 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: No high damage rings.
  • 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.

Bugs

Bug!	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.

Seeds

PC 89JM N4ST (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

PC HQSM WLSE (Treasure Room above spawn)

PC Q2PY 8Q7N (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

PC NDWL 802D (First floor Treasure Room; Brimstone during Mom fight and Mutant Spider on second floor)

PC 484V V23S (Treasure Room next to spawn; three Guppy items can be found in Devil deals before the Mom fight)

PC 9T79 9VOF (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

PC 7Y4F LLBG (First floor Treasure Room)

PC DEBT K816 (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn, 3 Guppy items in Devil Rooms before Caves 2)

PC 4TXG EHPM (First floor Treasure Room)

Switch DKAK WGCN (First floor Treasure Room; Sacred Heart in 4th floor Angel Room)

Switch T1R6D8F2 (Second floor Treasure Room)

Switch 1XNSLQ4G (First floor Treasure Room)

XboxOne 2E8T QRM0 (6th floor Treasure Room; The D6 roll Papa Fly)

PC 839P 2M9E (First floor Treasure Room reroll Halo of Flies)