Basilisk is an Enemy in Elden Ring. Basilisks are frog-eyed creatures found in underground areas. They are able to breathe out a black smoke that inflicts Death on players for each second they stay in it, making it important to mind your surroundings when fighting them.
Elden Ring Basilisk Locations
Where to Find Basilisk:
- In the dark caves of Ainsel River
- Lake of Rot: They may pop out from out of the poison while exploring.
- Mt Gelmir: Seethewater River, north of the Seethewater River Site of Grace.
- Auriza Hero's Grave
- Found around structures close to the waterfalls in Deeproot Depths.
- The Shaded Castle
- Subterranean Shunning-Grounds
Elden Ring Basilisk Drops
130 - 819 Runes
- Aeonian Butterfly (8.00% base)
Basilisk Notes & Tips
- Unlike most enemies they don't deal either Physical-type or Elemental-type damage. They however create clouds, that build up Instant Death meter.
- Weak Fire Damage and Slash Damage.
- Resistant towards Status Effects
- Their big eyes are actually fake - real one are slightly above their mouth and are really small.
- Returning enemies from the Dark Souls series.
Elden Ring Basilisk Image Gallery
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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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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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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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They oddly have similar shape to Godwin's Corpse albeit smaller
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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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Is this proof Elden Ring is in the same universe as Dark Souls?
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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these ****ers are also below in the valley under volcano manor
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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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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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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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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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