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[Act IV] Basilisks on Black Tern Island?

30.12.2008 @ 11:29 #1

I always like doing the contracts in this game and currently I just finished it, I had been wondering about this one though. The only Basilisks I ever remember meeting were in act V crypts and they were easy. This made me curious since I had failed to complete Julian's contract and to my surprise it said that Basilisks were on Black Tern island. I was on that island thrice and I don't remember encountering a single basilisk , anyone have an idea where they are? Do they come out at some specific time?
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30.12.2008 @ 11:41 #2

they are most definitely there on Black Tern Island. They are basically at the other end of the island as the wyverns and Dagon's temple.

When you arrive at the island by boat, you are roughly in the middle of the coast, so once on shore, go to your LEFT (west) ... keep going until the path curves around. Then you can skirt a little rocky outcrop and then head north (right at that point).

Just as you round that outcropping is where the basilisks hang out -- typically you'll find 1-4 of them at a time depending on the difficulty level at which you play and chance (i tend to find 3 pretty regularly, but have gotten as many as 7 once! -- that was awesome as they were worth about 1500 xp each at that point)

they do not respawn quite a regularly as other monsters, but they do, so if you find less than the 3 you need for the contract, just keep going back ... i find my medallion very handy for this (i tune it to monsters) as you don't even need to see the basilisks to know whether or not they are there, your medallion goes nuts :)

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30.12.2008 @ 21:22 #3

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they are most definitely there on Black Tern Island. They are basically at the other end of the island as the wyverns and Dagon's temple.

When you arrive at the island by boat, you are roughly in the middle of the coast, so once on shore, go to your LEFT (west) ... keep going until the path curves around. Then you can skirt a little rocky outcrop and then head north (right at that point).

Just as you round that outcropping is where the basilisks hang out -- typically you'll find 1-4 of them at a time depending on the difficulty level at which you play and chance (i tend to find 3 pretty regularly, but have gotten as many as 7 once! -- that was awesome as they were worth about 1500 xp each at that point)

they do not respawn quite a regularly as other monsters, but they do, so if you find less than the 3 you need for the contract, just keep going back ... i find my medallion very handy for this (i tune it to monsters) as you don't even need to see the basilisks to know whether or not they are there, your medallion goes nuts :)

enjoy!  :wave: :witchmas:


Will have to remember that for the neck play through.
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18.03.2010 @ 19:50 #4

Can they turn you to stone like basilisks normal do or not?
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18.03.2010 @ 23:57 #5

nope, but they can still be nasty  :peace:
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02.07.2010 @ 05:30 #6

I don't know if anyone else's experience was different, but the basilisks on Black Tern Island did not respawn for me, despite meditating many days in game time and going back and forth to the island. In act V I found one basilisk that respawns every 24 hours.
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02.07.2010 @ 08:28 #7

they respawn for me every 24hours, initially there are 3-4, only 2 respawn afaik. Same about the royal wyverns on BlackTern. But Basilisks don't give much XP. There main attack is poison/knockdown, so no turning to stone :)
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02.07.2010 @ 16:23 #8

The basilisks give almost 1500XP each! They are among the highest XP and easiest to kill quickly because you can stun them with Aard and kill in one blow. If the ones on the island are respawning for you I suggest keep meditating and killing them as a quick way to get all your silver and gold talents.
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05.07.2010 @ 09:53 #9

Basilisks are very susceptible to fire (burn them with incineration) :evil:

They give indeed a lot of exp points but you can't "farm" them. At least I learned they respawn alltogether 2-3 times -.-
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