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They share characteristics of Godwyns corpse, wonder if they have been afflicted in similar ways, aside from Godwyn being a vegatable and these guys being feckin lizards

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Anyone who ever died to these guys, please hand in your gamer license. Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3 included.

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Not these guys ive seen you guys in like 3 games now

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These things give me flashbacks

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Oh hey a frog, oh it's 6 frogs...I'm dead

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Not these ****ers again, at least they can't cut half of your hp anymore.

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Was nice to see after years of seeing these in videos of other Souls games that they were not nearly as much of a menace as I always thought they'd be upon first fighting the trio in Auriza. Blight is easy to avoid and only becomes a mild concern in small places if you let yourself get cornered, and besides that they are nearly harmless. While I can't attest how it feels with a great or colossal weapon, anything that isn't slower than molasses or shorter than ye' olde dagger will take them out with only mild effort. If you have any AoE casting ability and don't have terrible scaling, they are a total-non threat as well

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goddamnit, how do i kill them fast without them creeping me the hell out? how can i firebomb the area in elden ring so it kills them all? can i summon a lichdragon just for this one area sweep kill! God i hate them, and i once encountered them in a sewer, i screamed like a little girl and turned the game off, never went to that area again.

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Flame of the Redmanes any good for farming these without getting too close?

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Remember everyone. Basilisks are Ranni's fault in this world, her night of black knives killed godwyn which created death blight.

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Their connections to the Prince of Death in this game are kinda obvious, but does anyone else think they're somehow related to the Scarlet Rot as well? They are weak to fire damage, show up in two Rot-related areas (Shaded Castle and Lake of Rot) and have a chance of dropping Aeonian Butterflies.

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Three words

Beast repellant torch

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I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure the basilisk has been in the most soulsborne games out of any enemy. Only the basilisk and the hollows (counting hollows more depends if you mean a specific type of hollow or just enemies that are hollow in general/have hollow in the name) have appeared in all 3 dark souls games and there are no hollows in ER so the basilisk is in one more game than them. (I think the dogs have been in every soulsborne game but they have a different name and appearance each time while the basilisk is consistent in name and appearance)

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The only monster that i was actually happy to see on my first playthrough. Normally im just interested and find myself thinking "this thing looks cool/absolutely terrifying, wonder what it does."

But when my eyes once again landed on the glory of the basilisk i remembered all those deaths in dark souls 3 and i couldn't help but feel this intense feeling of joy and nostalgia. Welcome back my basilisk friend, welcome back.

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Looks like a reject beta Spore creature. Hideous, and not in the cool way.

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I want to pet one

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They have never been more annoying and dangerous. A group of three can take forever to fight: like literal minutes, because with them spewing death cancer dogshit, openings don't happen. oh yeah, another enemy completly dogshit to fight enemy as pure melee. So the usual

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Ah, you were at my side all along...

my true mentor...

my guiding basali- *dies to deathblight*

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Their bulgy eyes are even creepier.

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These things creep me out so much. Just their weird fake eyes and they way they just jump out and run at you with the death puke scares me. Very satisfying to kill though.

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Cancer Frogs

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I love these guys. Sadly there'll never be ashes of them because they'd be useless.

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I know they arent that dangerous anymore but my ds1 expirience makes me run out the room when I see these guys

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I wonder if squeezing their fake eyes launches them like a cannon

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Anyone know if the Basilisks at/ outside Shaded Castle drop aeonian butterflies?

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I can't decide if they look funny or horrifying.

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They oddly have similar shape to Godwin's Corpse albeit smaller

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ah sh8 here we go again

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Googley Boi c:

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I don't think the thing about the big eyes being fake is true in this case. Not only do the "real" eyes not appear to be there, but the description implies the big eyes are real

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When I first saw these things I noped out of there instantly. I have ptsd from that one area in the depths, you see.

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ah, old friend

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Is this proof Elden Ring is in the same universe as Dark Souls?

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screw these guys

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Need to have a head piece with the googly eyes. I mean we got a baby octopus helmet so c'mon.

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Damage Absorptions:
• -10 Absorption for Standard, Strike, and Piercing
• -20 Magic, Fire, Lightning, Holy
• -40 Slash!!
Resistances:
• 84 for Poison and Rot
• 63 Bleed, Sleep, Freeze
Farming Basilisks? Slash and bleed.

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I love how they took one of the most memorable designs from Dark Souls and gave it way more lore significance. Their connection to deathblight and deathroot and their appearance similarities to Godwyn make them way more fascinating.

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"When your Death meter fills you will be struck with instant Death." That's a joke right?
Wasn't funny the first time I got struck with instant Death...

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of all the things to have a model reused they chose the one enemy that their simple retexture makes them look lazy.

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If I have to deal with those things in one more game, I might start to cry.

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They can also be found in the Shunning grounds (sewer under leyndell)

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These things are nightmare fuel.

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Their tail is similar to Goldwyn’s weird “fish” tail.

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I died to the ones in Lake of Rot and it cost me 5 levels.

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GET LOST, I'M TRYING TO FIGHT A RUNEBEAR

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This is the worst they've ever been, I swear

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Patches is actually an outer god of trickery, and tied to these existing in the lands between.

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The baslisks exist in both the dark souls and elden ring universe because the Mightiest god of all, the Basilisk God pulls the very strings of these universes, and spawned his children into the world to curse all life

There is no Greater Will, there is no outer Gods, There is Only Basilisk God

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So are they real eyes this time, or fake ones like before?

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The beast repellent torch also scares them away

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Who hurt you Fromsoft?

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basilisks in lake of rot drop aeonian butterfly

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You can't fool me with those puppy dog eyes. Oh? Who's your little friend? Crap, I got dog piled again.

Honestly though, I never really had a problem with them in any souls game. And having torrent makes them a lot easier to deal with imo.

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They just had to put these things in this game too huh

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PSA: Do yourself a favor and get a Beast-repellent torch from the nomadic merchant in Caelid. It's wonderful against Basilisks - it makes them passive, so they won't be attacking you while you have the torch equipped. The torch will save your character's life many times

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Uh oh

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**** this creatures.. i hate it so muchh !!

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Elden Ring is in the same universe as Dork Souls, but after the age of fire and dark finally becoming the age of normal cycle days.

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these little shits are creepy and scary as ****

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oh no

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I think they are blind, tehy did not attack me when using Crepus Vial and only acted when my sword made noise/contact with enemy. Just run around them and smack them from behind.
(Also the Beast torch works on them for around 20-30 seconds)

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They're also around the Shaded Castle area.

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Hell no! The dammit curse frogs are back!

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NOOOO!!!!!!!!!

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Not a fan of their inclusion in this game. Always viewed them as a distinctly unique element to the Dark Souls games and seeing them here makes me think they were thrown in as a arbitrary reskin.

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The big "eyes" are indeed fake. If you run into one at night when mobs get the sparkling eyes for more runes. Their big fake eyes don't glow, but the tiny ones right by their mouth do.

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Look at their eyelids and compare it to the Prince of Death's visage under Stormveil. In the Souls games, the larger eyes of the Basilisks' were called the Eyes of Death. People say that Elden Ring and Dark Souls have no connection but Godwyn was the first of the Demigods to die, in other words much like Nito he was the First of the Dead, and Eyes of Death were the covenant item you offered to Nito to increase your covenant rank in DS1. Nito had no relation to the Basilisks in the first game, but here it seems like Godwyn does and that could be a missing link, especially considering using Eyes of Death in DS1 allowed them to spread much like Deathroot does in Elden Ring. Just a reminder that cyclicality is a huge theme in the Dark Souls games, not saying they take place in the same universe, but just some food for thought.

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Why is always basilisk

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I think the eyes on this one are ACTUALLY eyes this time around. I've tried looking for the smaller ones but couldn't find them on this version of the basilisk

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Fun fact, those giant eyeballs aren’t the Basilisk’s real eyes. It’s real eyes are a lot closer to its mouth!

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Oh they got eyelids now, honestly that make them less creepy. I hate those naked googly eyeballs in other games

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With this pace next game there will only be basilisks between bossfights..
Atleast change them according to theme of zone like rot lake ones sprout blood rot etc.

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Why is it always ill-omened creature...

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Elden Ring version is way toned down. The curse buildup used to be much faster in previous games.

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also needs to be updated that there is so many in the deeproots

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was so surprised to see these guys on the way to lake of rot

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Lore-wise why are these enemies in this game? Would this mean that Dark Souls and Elden Ring happen in the same universe?

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Can also be found in the sewers under Leyndell.

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these ****ers are also below in the valley under volcano manor

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I don’t like the eyes at all.. they stare at my soul.

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These guys are also in seethewater river. Off to the right of seethe water cave

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Also a bunch of them in the swamp outside of the Shaded Castle.

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Tbh i dont like this guys being in this game. Btw i dont care if they are difficult or whatever, but the fact that is (almost) the same design. I wouldnt mind having the same basilisk-type enemy here in Elden Ring doing instant death, as long as they did it with a different design.
Kinda like how the scarabs are like Elden Ring's own version of the crystal lizards of Dark Souls, but different in their own way. That way is more interesting and original.
Just an opinion. I wonder if anyone else thinks the same.

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Having a blast fighting a 2k HP version in the subterrenean shunning grounds

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Oh boy. I can't wait until I see Oroboro's reaction to them. His reaction to them in Dark Souls 3 was classic (he was really mad). I worry about his mental health when he realizes that these are in Elden RIng too.

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Old Friend ahead.

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they're back..

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Son of a *****... They're back.

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Can also be found in Auriza Hero's Grave.

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i honestly cant stand these things and they pop out of a whole zone?! im praying their only in the lake rot

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why

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Wasn't expecting to see this guy, I didn't quite mind them in DS3 since they can't regularly attack you and assuming they work the same way in this game.

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atleast they have more human eyes, the main reason why they were creepy was their completely inhuman eyes, glad they fixed it.

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Why, just why

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They're back...

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