shielded tears good or bad?

[Asylum]

i find it good until lategame bcuz of bullethell type bosses that u cant dmg due to it just blocking the shots, any other oppinions on this upgrade? what do u think of it?

[Athéri System]

It's good but not a run winning item without some damage ups. Having high ROF also helps.

[Ludovician]

It depends on what else you have. I believe if you have something like shot penetration, brimstone, technology etc. then you can still damage easily. Otherwise you have to look for openings. I got that on my Suicide King run and I think I took more damage on the Isaac fight from the ipecac blasts than from his shots. They just kept exploding on the shots right next to me...

[Athéri System]

I forgot to say that the shield blocks enemy tears but your tears still keep going. If you can't hit enemies you might just not be close enough to them.

[A Skeleton]

Man, I consider Shielded Tears a game winner. It makes fights like Mom's Heart a breeze.

[Asylum]

Originally posted by Lord_Vertigo:

I forgot to say that the shield blocks enemy tears but your tears still keep going. If you can't hit enemies you might just not be close enough to them.

it drastically slows down the tears, so fights vs issac and moms heart (when she does the spam move) wont make it through the barrage, but i myself have only gotten it 2x and its lost me the game both times due to low rof.

[Balestor]

Makes bullet hell fights almost an instant win, if you have soy milk, or extremely high attack speed that's all the better. You just need to realize that it only helps with the bullet hell fights and enemies, which there are a substantial amount of.

P.S. I would like to know what happens when you get shielded + laser :3

[Doniazade]

Originally posted by Balestor:

Makes bullet hell fights almost an instant win, if you have soy milk, or extremely high attack speed that's all the better. You just need to realize that it only helps with the bullet hell fights and enemies, which there are a substantial amount of.

P.S. I would like to know what happens when you get shielded + laser :3

Shielded+Tech 1 blocks shots but not very reliably, at least not if they're coming in perpendicular to the beam. For example I dropped a shielded Tech 1 Ludovico on top of Mom's Heart and it blocked maybe 1/2-2/3 of the shots. You don't get any shield surrounding the beam so only the thin beam itself can block shots.

[Daemonologist]

Situational, if you have a very low rate of fire and unimpressive shot speed/range it can easily work against you and it's got varying synergy with tear modifiers too (terrible with some, like IPECAC, good with others, like brimstone). It's awesome if you have a high rate of fire though, as it blocks tears, bones thrown from skeletons, etc. Soy milk and the number one are both great items to combine with it as they both provide a significant fire rate boost. The cancer trinket is also a good one to combine with it. Having a high range/shot speed helps a bit too once you have a high fire rate, so things like whip worm can be useful, but fire rate is the main thing.
You don't even have to try to dodge shots a lot with high tears stat/rate of fire and shielded tears, you can literally break through them with your own barrage of them in most cases.

[Angusiasty]

Won me one run in chest where I had no orbitals and very little hp

[Air]

Good, especially with the splash damage effect.

[darkflames9]

Shielded Brimstone is not a thing.

[Planeforger]

Don't combine it with ipecac. I'm pretty sure that leads to your shots exploding the moment they touch enemy attacks.

[Athéri System]

Originally posted by darkflames9:

Shielded Brimstone is not a thing.

Uhh. Yeah it is.

I've gotten Lost Contact and Brimstone in the same run and it blocked tears.

I've also gotten Lost Contact as Azazel. Same thing.

[Malignant]

shielded tears with any penetrating shot is pretty much GG

[JacksonTriggs Fan]

So the summary: Lost Contact: Worthless on its own, but a monster when used with a great many other items.