Cursed Eye

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Secret Room Treasure Room Red Chest Treasure Room

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The Cursed Eye is a passive item.

Effects

• Grants charged tears which when fully charged fires a tight burst of four.
  • Releasing all fire keys while not completely charged shoots 0-3 tears in a tight burst dependent on how long Isaac charged.

• Taking damage while charging will teleport Isaac into another room.

Notes

• Getting hit while holding a full charge does not teleport Isaac.
• This item can be counterproductive, especially while fighting bosses, as getting hit while charging a shot will reset the fight.
• The teleporting and charge-up effects do not apply to Lilith. Her Incubus will fire three projectiles with each shot without needing to charge, making this a very easy way of tripling her damage output with no downside.
• The color of Isaac's cursed eye will indicate what state it currently is in:
  • White: Inactive
  • Black: Charging up
  • Flashing black and white: Fully charged

Synergies

• Angelic Prism: Tears will still be quadrupled when passing through the prism; when fully charged, 16 tears are fired.
• Black Candle: Teleport effect is removed.
• Compound Fracture/ Cricket's Body/ The Parasite: All tears split into burst tears.
• Evil Eye: Occasionally fires eyes that can fire tears with Cursed Eye effect.
• Holy Mantle: Losing Holy Mantle while charging Cursed Eye will not teleport Isaac.
• Incubus: Incubus fires 3 tears for each one that normally would be fired, with no change in delay.
• Marked: Tears can no longer be charged, but the firing rate is greatly increased without affecting the tears stat, even beyond normal maximum fire rate. The teleport effect is removed.
• Technology 2: Laser fires while charging Cursed Eye. Tear delay for the charge is unaffected by Tech 2. Allows Cain to fire normal tears.

Interactions

• Anti-Gravity: Only stat changes from Anti-Gravity applies, as releasing a tear fire button also releases the Anti-Gravity Effect.
• Azazel: No effect.
• Chocolate Milk: Charged tear is followed by up to 3 minimum power ones, depending on Cursed Eye's charge.
• Diplopia: No effect.
• Dr. Fetus: No Cursed Eye effect.
• Epic Fetus: No Cursed Eye effect.
• The Forgotten: The skeleton form's charge attack becomes a rapid barrage of hits; the amount depends on how full the charge is, up to 4.
• Loki's Horns/ Mom's Eye: Occasionally, one tear fired from other cardinal directions. At high luck, the Cursed Eye effect applies in other cardinal directions.
• The Ludovico Technique: No Cursed Eye effect.
• Mom's Knife: No Cursed Eye effect.
• Monstro's Lung: No Cursed Eye effect.
• Sprinkler: No Cursed Eye effect.
• Tech X: No Cursed Eye effect.
• Technology: No Cursed Eye effect.
• Technology Zero: Tears are connected by electricity but fire too close to be apparent most of the time.
• Trisagion: Bursts of tears almost completely overlap.

Trivia

• This item may be a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" where the narrator talks about murdering an old man because of his "evil eye", which is described to look like The Cursed Eye.
• When Keeper charges up his shots his eye turns into a dollar sign.

Seeds

 PC  ZE1J 3XQC (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

 PS4  70CF RBVB (First floor Treasure Room)

 Vita  YXVB 83G4 (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

 Switch  0TXT F38C (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

Bugs

Bug! In Greed mode, taking Red Heart damage while charging will decrease the displayed Devil Room chance on the Found HUD to 0%. It returns to 100% if the button is pressed again.