Basilisk Venom

Venom. Your attacks are unblockable and turn foes to stone. — In-game description

Basilisk Venom

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Elite

Type

Venom

Training cost

9 Hero points

Game link

API

13132

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Basilisk Venom

Venom. Your attacks are unblockable and turn foes to stone.

 Basilisk Venom (30s): Your attacks turn foes to stone.

 Stone Duration: 1½s

 Number of Targets: 5

 Venom Duration: 30 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Unblockable

 Defiance Break: 150

— In-game description

Mechanics

• This skill causes 150 Defiance bar damage per ally, which sums up to a total of 750 defiance bar damage with you and 4 allies.
• The venom is still used if an attack is blocked, evaded, obstructed, negated by Blinded, or if the target has Invulnerability or Defiance.
• Stone counts as a stun for stun breaker skill purposes and is also affected by the effects of Sigil of Paralyzation.
  • Sigil of Paralyzation on the caster will increase the stun duration applied by allies.

Anomaly:

Unlike other Venom skills, Basilisk Venom can be stacked up to two charges. If done like this, the game will attribute the Defiance bar damage to the first thief who cast it. This includes equipment bonuses like Superior Sigil of Paralyzation.

Related traits

Shadow Arts

• Leeching Venoms — Venom utility skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom when you enter or exit stealth. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.

Acrobatics

• Instant Reflexes — Gain evasion when you use an elite skill.

Trickery

• Pressure Striking — Enemies you interrupt are inflicted with torment. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Daredevil

• Impacting Disruption — Enemies that you interrupt suffer a pulmonary impact. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Deadeye

• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 17, 2019	Fixed a bug that could cause this skill to grant more than one stack of basilisk venom to allies.
July 26, 2016	When you use a venom skill, you apply the effects to all nearby allies as well. The number of stacks that this skill applies has been reduced from 2 to 1. Stun duration has been increased from 1 second to 1.5 seconds.
January 26, 2016	While under the effects of this venom, your attacks are unblockable.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All venoms now naturally have one additional charge. Stun duration reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.
April 15, 2014	Fixed an issue that caused the target to interrupt themselves, instead of the thief being the source of the interrupt.
November 26, 2013	This stun will now apply after a strike, instead of on a strike, to prevent crowd-control attacks (like Headshot) from overriding the stun.
October 15, 2013	Petrify is now removed on stun break.
August 06, 2013	The buff provided when this skill is activated will now properly display the remaining number of charges.
March 26, 2013	No longer immobilizes targets in addition to stunning them.
February 26, 2013	Enemies affected by this ability will now indicate it in their boons and conditions bar.
January 28, 2013	The number of uses on this skill's effect will now decrease if an attack lands or if the attack is negated by Blind, Block, Evade, Obstructed, or Invulnerable.
October 22, 2012	This skill's buff now applies for the appropriate duration of 30 seconds.
October 07, 2012	Increased stun duration to 1.5 seconds. Stun breakers now work on this skill.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Basilisk Venom has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This is currently the only skill accessible to players normally that inflicts petrification.