Sinus Infection

[acidic ooze]

Isn't Sinus Infection a tad bit too strong? It just kinda does massive damage, even at low damage. Recently, I got Quad Shot, Triple Shot, Tractor Beam (Super good with more tears...), and of course, Sinus Infection. My only damage upgrade was Steven, which was a kinda late upgrade. I was also playing with Lazurus. The result? I smashed through the entire game.

[Spicybullfrog]

nose goblin is just a better version of sinus infection

[Violeta]

Originally posted by ѕριcувυllfrog:

nose goblin is just a better version of sinus infection

Its also a billion times more common in my experience.

[Magical Purple Man]

Originally posted by ѕριcувυllfrog:

nose goblin is just a better version of sinus infection

How so?
I guess Nose Goblin is a trinket instead of an item (presumably has a lower activation chance by default).
Edit: Ok that makes a lot of sense now that I thought about it.

And that just sounds an insanely lucky combination, yeah sinus infection probably helped greatly, but you could say that about sinus infection + almost anything that gives you lots of tears/ rate of fire/ Luck.

Besides, nothing wrong with having a strong item in the Item room pool :p (Tech X is in the item room pool and that's practically a run winner just by it's self)

[acidic ooze]

After reading the comments, I think I get your guys ideas. But has anyone tried Soy Milk + Nose Goblin/Sinus Infections? That sounds amazing.

[Herr Gutentauben]

Boogers deal your tear damage if I'm not mistaken so soy milk means more boogers but they only deal 20% the damage they would deal without soy.

Not impressive.

[John Orbit]

It's definitely one of the most powerful items in the game, because it improves with damage, tears, and luck, plus it synergizes with almost everything. That said, Tech X is more effective at clearing rooms without any synergies.

[acidic ooze]

Originally posted by Gluten:

Boogers deal your tear damage if I'm not mistaken so soy milk means more boogers but they only deal 20% the damage they would deal without soy.

Not impressive.

The amount of Boogers on one enemy may make up for that. If it's dependent upon luck, with enough, you could probably start to shred.

[John Orbit]

OH! By the way, Sinus Infection / Nose Goblin + Pause Button is a sick combo!
Litter boss with boogers. Hit pause. Wait for boss to die.

[SakuraKoi]

Originally posted by A Player.:

Originally posted by Gluten:

Boogers deal your tear damage if I'm not mistaken so soy milk means more boogers but they only deal 20% the damage they would deal without soy.

Not impressive.

The amount of Boogers on one enemy may make up for that. If it's dependent upon luck, with enough, you could probably start to shred.

The main problem with Soy Milk is that while it quite equally exchanges damage for a smaller tear delay, slightly in favor of tear delay, it just is an advantage when the tear delay is at the standard 10 or higher. Making it 1 at standard tear delay instead (of 2) due to the flat tear delay reduction of 2 after reducing it to 1/5th of the original value like the damage.

The poison/bogger tears will still deal 1/5th of the damage and might be fired just at thrice the rate when you'd actually have had a delay of 5 anyway

for reference, at tear delay 1 (nothing can go lower than that), one fires 15 tears per second, at 5 (soft cap) it is 5/s and at 10 it is 2,72 (with 72 is repeating by the by). One can break the soft cap of 5 with the following items:

Capricorn, Cricket's Body, Guillotine, Mom's Perfum, Pisces: -1
Anti-Gravity, Cancer (Trinket), Milk after taking damage: -2
Purity (Blue Aura OP, better nerf) and Cancer (Trinket) with Mom's Box: -4

[Spicybullfrog]

Also, nose goblin boogers are homing.

[burn1none]

sinus infection carried me through an entire Greedier run its amazing

[Spicybullfrog]

you can get nose goblin from fortune tellers

[Ov Å̪e̞oη̣s]

from experience booger trinket is not effected by luck (or barely effected), so sinus infection can be better with high luck. I will definitely not turn down that trinket 90% of the time though.

best is when you have 20/20, bookworm, incubus and APPLE! with it on lilith :D

aaaand yeah it is a solid item, and you have to hit them and stack up the nuggets. 10x better than explosivo, don't complain :D

[John Orbit]

Originally posted by Ov Åeons:

10x better than explosivo, don't complain :D

Okay... you can't compare Sinus Infection to Explosivo in terms of usefulness. In terms of power and effect, sure, they have similar effects that do lots of damage, but Explosivio explodes your face, while Sinus synergizes with all kinds of things and does continual damage. Sinus is clearly superior.

Boogers are hands-down the best tear-effect in the game and the best item for synergies. That said, I'd still rather have Tech X. Who needs synergies when high damage will clear a room in one shot?

[John Orbit]

Anyway, to answer the original question: No. Sinus Infection is not too strong.

It's really strong, for sure, and I'll take it any time, but the same is true for Tech X, Brimstone, Cricket's Head, Cricket's Body, Magic Mushroom, Polyphemus, Crown of Light, Sacred Heart...

Also utility items like Steam Sale, Restock, Sack Head, Blank Card, Car Battery, Gnawed Leaf, Pinking Shears, Stopwatch, Pyromaniac, There's Options, More Options...

There are a lot of really powerful items in the game, because without them, it would be practically unplayable. You need at least some damage ups to win. Sinus Infection is really, really sweet, but not the most OP thing in the game. Hell, it can't even break the game. Blank Card can be way, WAY more powerful than any than any single item, because it can get you tons of items.