Damocles - A king's fortune... but at what cost?
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Binding of Isaac: Repentance Item guide
Damocles
00:00 Intro
00:04 Unlock
00:07 Where to find + basics
02:33 The threat
03:07 Resolving the situation
04:29 Interaction with various items
05:36 Multiple swords = multiple threats?
06:20 Removing the curse of the sword
06:49 Massive item spawning with Genesis
07:14 Spawning every item with Butter!
07:43 Interaction with Book of Virtues
07:49 Bag of Crafting recipes
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Music: Antibirth OST - 07 Forgotten Lullaby
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Can we all appreciate that Syncer waited hours for the sword to fall for all these demonstrations
monke
I just wanted to write it
He can use cheat engine and then slow down the video but then itd be like reverse 3kliksphilips technique:
In his csgo skin showcase video he slows the game down and then speeds up the footage resulting in something that looks like 240 fps but is instead 60
If he sped up the game then slowed the footage he would get a powerpoint presentation
It's a good video to make if you have a lot of house work to do. :)
@@TheRealBatabii Thats how it worked in antibirth. In repentance it can just be activated or deactivated because they took out the increasing chance after getting hit multiple times
*_gets hit_*
"This is a speedrun now."
isaac gets hit and instantly speaks as if he were talking through a shitty microphone as he speedruns to get anything that would help him survive
@@awe9217 is that a reference to a certain sniper from a certain animation that happens to be about a group of friends going on a journey for the acquisition of pizza?
There needs to be a mod of this where instead of the snapping horse hair sound effect, it instead plays "I LOST THE RUN TO RNG, DUDE?!" sound byte.
The item is a reference to the tale of Damocles, a member of the court of King Dionysus of Syracuse. One day, Damocles was kissing his king's butt, telling him how great and fortunate he was of having so much wealth and power. The king offered Damocles to trade places with him for one day, and Damocles accepted.
The thing is, Dionysus was kind of an asshole and had made lots of enemies during his reign. So, in order to remind himself to be always on guard, he had a sword hang over his throne by a horse's hair. So, after a few hours sitting on the throne, Damocles didn't feel so fortunate for all the wealth and power he held.
o_o
In the version I heard, the whole thing was more an object lesson on how being a king was not all fun and games, and all the wealth and power in the world didn't protect him from the metaphorical (and in this case, literal) sword hovering just above his head. Hard to enjoy wealth and power with that in mind.
I thought Dionysus was one of the
@@kirbywithaknifeisawesome6028 Dionysus is both the name of the god and the king
@@LordTyph I genuinely do not empathize with people with all the power and money.
The way the sword just hangs over Isaac is very intimidating
Omg right it's almost as if that's the whole point
Damokles felt the same thing.
The story behind the sword is interesting, basically Damocles was complementing his king for his fortunate circumstances with his lavish lifestyle and all his power. His king offered to switch places with him for a day so that Damocles could have a taste of that power and lifestyle, Damocles agreed and took to his new throne, surrounded by every luxury he could ever want for however the king also had a sword installed over his throne to represent his many enemies held by just a single horse hair so that it may strike at any time and evoke the same sense of fear and anxiety in him as his many enemies evoke in the king. Damocles then begged his king to take back his power and free him of his "fortunate" circumstance.
Damocles is my favorite item from anti-birth, it's such a cool risk reward item and it is amazingly flavorful and true to the story, hence the "A kings fortune but at what cost" sub title.
@@adverterb omg right it's almost as if you don't have to be a douche about it.
@@songbirdsandsandwiches8217 yeah i know the story i was just saying it's intimidating is all, it looks cool
Damocles: "A king's fortune... but at what cost?"
Lazarus: "There's supposed to be a cost?"
Lazarus Mains be like: „I hope it drops early so I can get my damage up“
Chuckles in the lost
@@cacophonythegoblin8381 I don’t think you watched up to the part where it says holy mantle won’t save you from the sword
@@enbybunny9940
I don't think you thought up to the part where The Lost dies after taking any damage meaning he never gets the chance for Damocles to fall.
@@timmyreobed5043 Laz and the lost really amp this item up, yeah. There is no drawback for either of them effectively, and especially not on the lost.
I love how some of the clips skip to 3 minutes for damocles proc while other skip to 3 hours. Puts into the perspective how unpredictable this item can be
Which is good IMO, it’s suppose to be a looming threat that keeps you on edge rather than a predictable occurrence.
Honestly if you take this item you're gonna want a Chariot card or a power pill at all times. Then the second you hear that snap you've a split second to activate it or you're dead
Well you can say that it's like death you can't predict when you will die, you just have to live with it and delay it.
@@temkin9298 that's true
i mean, it's just a dice rolling on a bigger scale, it can either never fall, or fall on the first proc, both are unlikely but possible
3:20. Wow the luck of that, Took nearly an Hour and a Half compared to the 4 minutes of the previous showcase
Is just lucky on the example. Imagine dying 4 minutes after taking Damocles xd
@@LestJ you could pick it up, get hit, and die less than a second later. I love this item so much XD
He had enough time to finish the run
They turned anxiety into an item
wait, anxiety gives you twice the amount of the good things? do you have a premium anxiety or what?
@@powerthunfischdesdonners3086 anxiety can be used as a form of motivation, so in a way, it kinda does give you more good things if used properly, just like damocles.
Let the anxiety flow through you, harness it, let its power fulfill your desires at the cost of your peace.
"A king's fortune... but at what cost?"
The Lost: "for free."
Tainted Lost: Indeed
Character with butter: yeah, takes some hits but I agree.
guy who is good at the game: theres a cost?
badman jones yeah, 2 red hearts lol
Lazarus: Huh. Neat.
It’s kinda humorous how holy mantle doesn’t save you from it, no death animation just the death note saying you were merked by a fly.
the fly was the last monster that damaged isaac
@@shinoda522 Correct me if i'm wrong, but any other instance besides having holy mantle, the item Damocles gets considered the killing force. (3:07 where the sword is considered the killing entity, 3:50 where the fly is considered the killer)
@@dagazar you are right, probably it's a small bug caused by holy mantle
@@shinoda522 Makes me wonder what the intended interaction is suppose to be. We may find a bug fix in the future where holy mantle will save you, or there may be a bug fix where it just does the proper death animation.
@@dagazar ihmo the second choice, the idea would be that the sword kill you instantly, and the mantle prevents damage, not necessarily the death. plan C kills you (I remember) if you have the mantle, and also suicide King
I'm so happy its an active item so I won't automatically get the effect as a blind item
Oh so that's why they changed it
Same in antibirth, isn't it?
@@SenjeyB yeh, it was. I thought it was a passive
why are you taking devil deals blind
@@IsopodAqua why not I like to live on the edge
now that's what i call anxiety item
Lost Players call it the free gift
@@silverdededestruction2197 and Lazarus to
@@j.hawkins8779 I'm pretty sure you lose the benefit as soon as the sword falls.
@@silverdededestruction2197 yeah, but stats up
@@j.hawkins8779 Actually no, losing the sword and respawning is practically worthless if you're only aiming for the stat up you get from reviving.
Given that this item is Ultimately high risk and high reward, the moment you get hit you will not know when will that sword fall on your head. This item is practically worthless on pretty much everyone besides The Lost given that the randomness of the sword fall will immediately determine the end of your run as soon as you get hit, and even with the addition of an extra life you practically already lost the benefit of damocles.
3:20 man waited 1 and a half hour for the sword to fall respect
Respect.
@@odiadordeisrael your fucking nickname
he prob sped the game up
6:07
Great nickname
Imagine if it lowered the chances of the sword falling depending on how high your luck stat is.
I want to test this theory, but it's really hard.
Havent found a reliable way to do it
@Julo Micha I mean, the tear effect increases are actually insane if you have high luck.
Imagine luck being useful in this game
@@Syncer Don't. We all know how worthless Luck stat is almost anything in the game. Doubt it works with this.
@@Syncer if it was affected by luck we would know by this time. We can always ask Edmund, but if we get an answer it's probably going to be "no"
So the important part is : always take this sword with the lost, not like you could trigger it anyway...
Or only if you have a 1-Up, Judas' Shadow (if not going for unlocks), Lazarus' Rags, Nine Lives, or other guaranteed extra-life item.
@@mithiwithi or if you just need that edge that the anxiety it generates gives you. In case the game was too chill lol
@@mithiwithi damage blocked by holy mantle doesnt start the falling chance, so there is basically no way for the lost to even start it.
@@MrVentches The scenario I had in mind was getting hit once to break Holy Mantle (which definitely doesn't trigger Damocles falling), then getting hit again, dying, and using a rez item. It's that second hit I was speculating as a possible source of falling.
@@mithiwithi Since getting killed by the sword and dying does not trigger other Damocles, I feel like it wouldn't activate in that way. Though maybe the Damocles killing you is what specifically resets this, in which case the lost could be hit by it.
It’d be cool to see it fit through the hole in Isaac’s head with Gnawed Leaf, like a “no cheating the system” Easter egg
funny
"Ballin, but at what cost": the item
drip, but no one to out-drip...
your icon is so pretty to me, did you make it?
@@saaros Yeah!
Fun fact, It used to be even better, giving a free copy of shop and devil deal items
it would be too op if it was like this i think
But it would also increase the chance of falling the more damage you took
@@scarez3423 originally , if i remember, if you got hit another time afterwards the chance for it to fall would increase, so overall its a trade of stats basically
@@alexxans1154 you could get very good items with this and just become unstopable
@@Someone72663 yeah its a very risky and reward item
Imagine how terrifying it would be if they added an animation of the knife slipping halfway down to your character.
Might also make it harder to use an invulnerability item on reaction.
maybe when you first trigger it, it sort of slips and the rope starts to tear.
**NOTE 2**
I have revised the test:
Damocles will not trigger Panic Button
Please watch my new video with the proof:
ua-cam.com/video/rNvWNHBHmKU/v-deo.html
**NOTE**
As pointed out by some people, the Panic Button + How To Jump test has an issue.
I will revise that soon.
Thank you guys for that :D
Damn... Can't wait to see the new video tho..
I just watched your old video about this item, and you post that!? Like how?
panic button uses the item when hes about to take damage, and since the sword instantly kills isaac like plan c, it doesnt count damocles as taking damage, thats why the trinket wont work when the sword falls on isaac. please correct me if im wrong.
Can holy mantle stop the timer from sorting?
Because it blocks first hit in each room
@@redd_adam The reason it didn’t activate is because panic button only activates how to jump if you are moving
Maybe my Favorite item from Antibirth and i am so happy to see it here
Same here
Yeah I love this balance
Extra items but At a high price
Can you find A life?
Rock bottom is my favourite.
@@5uperM pretty cool too but with Tainted Isaac pretty OP
@@Diva-if9yy that's a good thing c:
I am forbidden to take this item for one reason. Last time I picked it up I got hit once and then I instantly died from Damocles... It was such a good run too ;-;
edit: IT HAPPENED AGAIN KUZ I GOT IT WITH METRONOME & BOOK OV VIRTUES ARE YOU SERIOUS
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I pick it if i have extreme defense or am playing either lost
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If it was such a good run then why did you take it.
OP with the Lost, but anxiety with the rest
The lost is already anxiety so it balances out. I guess that makes sense
@@bullettime1116 Standard Lost is fine. Tainted Lost is chaos
-How tough are you?
-I use Magic Skin with Damocles.
-Right this way sir.
Already won two runs thanks to this item, I love the high risk high reward playstyle it encourages
Suggestion for your next item blood puppy it looks so adorable
*just wait till it kills too many enemies*
@@arandomyoutubeuser4873 okay now I'm worried what does it do
@@kingjamesbond4009 *just see in a showcase or once you unlock it and obtain it*
@@arandomyoutubeuser4873 I just watched a Showcase this literally tainted Jacob
Damocles is such a cool idea for an item
Its literally risk reward the item
Too bad the unlock is jacob and esau
well i wouldnt fully call it risk reward due to the heavy rng involved, but yeah its the best we've got in that vein.
@@FakeEgirl I mean, that RNG moment is only activated if you get hit. It's risk-reward.
jacob and esau have such good unlocks but i hate them so much, i was about to get birthright but then i found the secret room in chest and pressed the 2 buttons, literally 10 monstros spawned all at once and i died nearly instantly
Normally seeing two items in an item room fills someone with joy.
But in repentance it's like "I am so screwed, this is too good to be true that sword will kill me 100%".
The Lost: This is what im gonna call a pro gamer move
It's like Karthus ult, flash at the last second to Dodge it
I'd add a mod that makes a MGS "!" sound when the sword is about to fall, just in case I have some invicibility activated item
Cheater
@@gabrielandy9272 i guess, but hey, it might be useful
@Zarozapa CnJ if you making it sound louder than intended you cheatijg if i made the footsteps on cs go louder i wouod be cheating and deserving to be banned, isaac is a single player game so no bans but dont change the fact that its cheating.... However people play as they wish as i said single player game
@@gabrielandy9272 but in Isaac you could still die tho, while in CS you're just ruining the other ones experience
@@Vinistonesrrr yes the thing is people can cheat in single player games mod to make it harder or whatever it wants, but they can't say they are not doing that tho.. if u changing the sound to be louder u are not playing the vanilla game anymore... and theres nothing wrong with it... i my self mod the sims 3 to have to purchase food instead of the sim purchasing the food on the fridge.. some people may put infinite money or want mmake it easier whatever... i was just pointing it out.
Thank you so much for waiting such a long time to demonstrate the item to us :>
No one is commenting on this, but I appreciate you adding the description of the item in the title of the video, as people who forget about the name can search the description, which in turn leads to this video. I don't personally do this, but I know a few that do, and they'll thank you for this.
I really appreciate the fact that even tho is high risk high reward, if u get it as blind item, u can just not press the spacebar, it's really good
Literally, yesterday youtube has recommended me your Antibrith's Domocles showcase and today you uploaded this new one! What a coincidence :D
This is my favourite item so far.
OP run but the moment you get hit you have a constant worry of instant death, or find a lucky way out. Kind of wish there was a character that started with this, but had no access to immunity from it.
Not gonna lie but holy mantle makes its a lot funnier when it happens since it doesn't show you dying
and the will says you were killed by a fly...
@@relinoylli2 fly was the one who cut the string.
I just realized this is the knife that hung over isaac in the anti-birth album cover thing
This sounds like an amazing item to take with the Lost. Unless it gets set off whenever you lose your holy mantle charge.
YOOO they kept one of my favourite antibirth items in
I have to say that the amount of effort you put into this video is amazing. You waited around with the game open for hours just to get a sword to fall to provide physical proof that it does something.
The least and most effort ever put into a video. For one he just has to wait around. But two he can’t play Isaac until he finally finishes all these examples
When will you do birthright I can't wait to see the effects on all characters
Some Tainted Characters don't work on it, a little handful for the non tainted ones too. At some point of time in the future they will all get a effect
I will do it as soon as it becomes fully functional
"Currently unimplemented"
Literally everytime I had it on a specific character it was "not implemented yet". So yeah, once it fully works, it's good.
To be honest for some reason I have my doubts that it will ever be fully functional with everyone sadly.
One of my favorite items, mainly since the Lost was my tav character to play in antibirth and this directly benefits him the most
damn you waited to test some of these for over an hour? dedication man
Imagine being that guy who got a 1/10000 chance less than 4 minutes in
That... happened to me... The only thing incorrect about your statement is that I'm a girl. Lol.
I was fighting Delirium and got hit. No worries though because its so late into the run that it couldn't trigger, right? It did. And it did it less then 5 seconds later... At first, I didn't even know what hit me or how I died... until I seen that sword in the will. I stopped playing the game for a few weeks after that. It already shits on my enough with terrible luck that a five second sword of Damocles kill was just the final nail in the coffin.
took the item twice, died both times to it after a couple of seconds from taking damage :(
To be fair, 1 hour and 20 minutes before the death effect activates is pretty sick
This is unbelievably powerful for early game when enemies aren't that hard, but also potentially dangerous if you don't recognize when it's going to fall and act appropriately.
Having an extra life or invincibility available is important, and later on when you think you have enough items, getting rid of it is vital to your survival because it's harder to dodge attacks, increasing the chance of getting insta-killed.
I think panic button and the holy barrier should prevent you from dying to this, it seems like an oversight more than anything.
It should be noted that breaking the Holy Mantle does NOT count as being hit, so the item is basically free stuff as The Lost. That said, losing a life and reviving DOES count as taking damage. So it's important to have more than one extra life (i.e. Dead Cat as The Lost is a great combination with this; 1up!, not as much).
UA-cam recommended this video to me 5 times in a row. Now i proceed to subscribe.
that fly at the beginning was real vibing
wait tainted forgotten's skeleton can die? 4:25
Finally an explanation on the item that kept killing me on the Delete This challenge.
OH IT'S BACK
Great video! Honestly, you dedication makes me wanna make the same type of videos in Spanish.
3:50 Thats fine we didn't need the Death Animation anyway
At first I thought it was kinda sketch.
But seeing it as a speedrun item is pretty cool
A must take for any lost run
this man has some Lets Game it Out level perseverance
The way there's a second delay when the sword goes to fall makes me think you can just walk from underneath it and dodge it in time
Maybe you can react to it with a chariot card or something
So I had a co-op run where I was tainted lost 1p and my sister was playing as tainted Lilith p2. I got this item through a devil deal but ended up dying once but getting revived. We just wanted to go to dark room, but the void opened up and we decided to try that. We won, but I decided to wait around and see when Damocles drops because it's been faithful for about 50 minutes at that point. It's been over two hours and still no drop, so does Damocles not drop after a run has been "completed" by killing delirium? Or does tainted lost dying and getting revived by a co-op partner not count as taking damage? Or am I a huge luckerdog?
"Hear that? We have options!"
Finding this as the lost is more items and if possible if tainted lost finds its also good too meaning you have nothing holding you back from getting it holy mantle does not activate
Yooo man i watched your 4 years old video abuot this item and now a new video
So it's actually the definition of high risk, high reward
3:15 and 4:19 true patience
I like how he still calls it ugly when he dies.
Hey Syncer, do you have a reliable source for the 1/10000 figure? I've seen a few variants of that, all slightly different, but with no citation in the end.
If you were to teleport to a different room at the same time it starts falling would you get hit?
And does How to Jump's s also protect you from the falling sword?
Rolled this item with Metronome. This is now my favorite item.
I think that with The Lost/Tainted Lost this may be a free item, because in Antibirth, if I recall, it'd pass through your body once it fell on you
It can’t proc on them anyway since they die if they take any hit.
@@Napstablooky holy mantle
@@potatoking2161 Holy mantle doesn't count as getting hit for Damocles, same as Holy Card
It's free on Lost/Tainted Lost anyway because they can't take a hit to begin with, thus never proccing the chance for Damocles to fall anyway.
Just finished a boss rush/hush/Delirium run of 30min with Lazarus with this item, i became OP pretty fast but I was basically speedrunning the game in fear of the Sword. It was pretty fun
Good thing both the Lost and the Tainted Lost can get Damocles. Free extra items for them with that activated.
Great video as usual man but panic button wont trigger while you are holding learn to jump book if you are not moving at the time of damage
I will check that again. Thank you :D
If I could change something it would be that this item make some sort of very sudden loud noise when it falls, not enought to give you a heart attack or make the player go deaf, but just to make the player flinch like in horror movies.
"Stand tall rise up stay strong fighting your enemies
Truth will find its reward
If you live and die by the sword"
i dont have the item unlocked yet, but i can guarantee this will be the most anxiety inducing thing in my life
I received damage when I had Damocles, and literally died after like 10 seconds, is it generally legal that he dies after an hour or more?
Sorry if you said it in the vid or not, but if you get hit and you leave the floor before it falls on you does it reset it?
yo sync any chance you can show what happens when u use chaos card on dogma and the beast?
I would say that this is still pretty worth it
If it only activates by taking damage, it means that is completely safe for the Lost and tainted Lost?
yes. just take it for the Lost and Tainted Lost.
Almost, because it will trigger if you have extra life and died
@Zarozapa CnJ *cough* birthright *cough cough*
"Hey, I've seen this one before."
Everybody gangster till the metronome gives damocles
4:49 He got Damocles...
From Damocles
Edit: Okay he got it from Pandora's Box + Pandora's Key
Edit 2: yes... I know it's called strange key
I know it doesn't save you from being killed, but does taking a hit while holy mantle is active count as a hit for the sword? IE if I take it on the lost and lose holy mantle from hitting an enemy does that trigger the swords ability to fall?
is it possible for Eden to start with the sword above her head?
Or only the active item?
If she can I know a certain BOI player whose going to start sweating right about now...
Syncer, how many unique rooms have you gotten connected to the starting rooms you record in?
If you run at a lower frame rate does that lower the chance of the sword falling? For example 30 fps vs 60 fps.
[7:13] *Super Mario 64 Merry-Go-Round theme plays*
3:19 bro waited a hour hes a legend
Aaah, yes. The best hat for Lost himself.
3:19 This dedication...
Damocles spawn third item after opening giand chest
Does losing holy mantle count as damage for causing the sword to drop
Damocles is The vengeance soul and spirit plus he from ancient history of Rome his story pretty awesome and sad
i think we can all agree that this and lost is a big win
What am I looking at at 0:42? A golden tinted rock? I cant seem to find it on the wiki and I didn’t think there was mod support yet?
Does it still add a second item even after the sword falls or is the effect only active while the sword is hanging?
A perfect item for the lost
Epik on the lost
Tainted lost 😎