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Book of Virtues

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Book of Virtues

"Spiritual companionship" Book of Virtues
Active + Passive item (4 rooms recharge time)

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Book of Virtues item

Book of Virtues is an unlockable passive item in The Binding of Isaac, added in the Repentance DLC.

Description

While held +25% chance for an Angel Room to appear after defeating a boss.

Guarantees the first deal encountered in a run to be an Angel Room.

Allows an Angel Room to spawn even if a Devil Deal was taken.

When used by itself Spawns an orbital wisp that fires spectral tears alongside Isaac, block shots and deals contact damage to enemies. It will get destroyed after taking enough damage.

A normal wisp is summoned in the middle ring, has 2 health points and tears that deal 3 damage. It deals contact damage equal to 2x Isaac's tear damage.

As the wisp takes damage, it shrinks in size.

While Isaac is invulnerable, wisps are also invulnerable.

Multiple wisps can be summoned at once, and are placed in 3 different rings around Isaac: inner ring (max 6 wisps), middle ring (max 8 wisps), and outer ring (max 12 wisps), for a total of 26 wisps.

If a new wisp is summoned while having the maximum number of wisps, the most damaged wisp or most old will get replaced.

When used with another item Picking up another active item while holding Book of Virtues will stack the new item on top of the book, essentially turning the book into a passive item.

Using the active item will spawn unique wisps that are different for each item. For more details about each active item's unique wisps, check out an active item page.

Unique wisps come with their own appearances, modified attributes and special effects.

Note

This page shows information as of the latest Repentance release.
To see latest up-to date information about this item for the new Repentance+ (Online Co-op) DLC, check this page instead.

How to unlock?

Defeat Isaac as Bethany.

Transformations

This item contributes towards the Bookworm transformation. Collecting 3 items from this set will make Isaac fire an extra tear 25% of the time.

Item pools

Book of Virtues can be found in the following item pools:

Name Weight
Angel Room
0.5/1.0
Library
0.2/1.0
Greed Angel Room
0.5/1.0

Tags

The following tags are applied to this item:

Id Description
book Contributes towards the Bookworm transformation.
offensive Can appear for Tainted Lost.
lazarussharedglobal Passive effects (except direct stat changes) are shared between Tainted Lazarus' forms.

Special synergies

The following special synergies and interactions for Book of Virtues have been documented.

Mod Item Synergy
--- BFFS! ×2 wisp damage.
--- The Book of Belial combined with Judas' Birthright Can be stacked, allowing Judas to carry 2 passive books and an active item on top of them.

* Note that not all possible synergies and interactions are listed here.

External links

  • Check out the item description on the external Isaac Wiki.

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