Basilisk Paw
| Basilisk Paw | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Trinket |
| Location | Monsters; Crates and Barrels; Skull Cavern Treasure Rooms |
| Sell Price | 1000g |
Deep underground a hit usually hurts twice: once for the damage, and again for whatever it leaves behind. The Basilisk Paw answers the second half. While it sits in the trinket slot nothing a monster does can land a debuff, so slowing goo and defence-stripping curses simply stop happening. It becomes available once Combat Mastery has been claimed at the Mastery Cave, and from then on it turns up in monster drops, in smashed crates and barrels, and in the treasure rooms of the Skull Cavern. Nothing about it can be changed at an Anvil, which makes it the one trinket that is finished the moment it is found, and farmers who dive for depth rather than for loot tend to reach for it first.
Location
Combat Mastery comes first. The Mastery Cave is in Cindersap Forest just below Leah's cottage, set into the hillside behind a door that opens only for a farmer at level ten in all five skills. Mastery Points build up from experience earned after those levels are reached, and spending them on the Combat pillar adds the star-marked trinket slot beside the hat slot. Until that pillar is claimed, no trinket drops anywhere.
After that, three routes lead to the Paw. Monsters drop it at a low rate that climbs slightly with the monster's own health, so the big flying enemies are better targets than the small ones, and spiders are the worst of all. Crates and barrels drop it as well, and the figure improves with depth; the Quarry Mine is treated as deeper than anywhere else, which makes a sweep of its containers unusually generous for the time it takes. Skull Cavern treasure rooms carry a small chance in every chest, and those rooms grow more common further down.
Daily luck and any luck buff feed into both drop formulas, so the fortune teller is worth a glance before a farming run and a lucky meal is worth eating. The Burglar's Ring and the Monster Compendium make no difference at all, because a trinket is spawned beside a monster's loot rather than inside it.
Effect
Monsters underground carry more than teeth. Slimes coat the farmer in goo that slows movement to a crawl, which is the difference between walking out of a crowded room and being cornered in it. A jinx takes eight points off defence for a while, so every hit that follows bites deeper. The Basilisk Paw removes the whole category at once. The debuff is never applied in the first place, so there is no duration to sit through and no icon to watch.
That matters most in the Skull Cavern and in the dangerous versions of the Mines, where monsters arrive in groups and one slow ends a run. Mobility is the real armour down there, and the Paw protects mobility rather than health.
The usual alternatives all cover less ground. The Slime Charmer Ring, handed over by Gil for clearing a thousand slimes, blocks slime damage and the slime debuff, but only from slimes. The Sturdy Ring, craftable from Combat level one, halves how long a debuff lasts instead of stopping it. The Immunity Band lifts the Immunity stat by four, and a second band adds four more. The Paw sits in the trinket slot instead of a ring slot, so it leaves both rings free for damage or luck. That is the quiet reason it gets picked: it adds protection while both ring slots stay free.
Notes
The Anvil, built from fifty iron bars using the recipe Combat Mastery hands over, re-rolls the random stats of most trinkets for three iridium bars a go. The Paw has no stat line to randomise, so the Anvil leaves it alone. A found Paw is already the best Paw, which saves a great deal of iridium compared with the trinkets that invite endless rerolling.
Duplicates pile up once farming begins in earnest, and a spare fetches a round thousand from Marlon at the Adventurer's Guild. Keeping two serves no purpose, since the effect does not stack and only one trinket can be worn.
As a gift it is a curious thing to hand over. Abigail and the Wizard like it, which suits their taste for the strange, while most of the town dislikes being given a monster's foot. A trinket offered as a present leaves no entry in the gift log afterwards, so tracking who has had one takes a note of the farmer's own.
All Trinkets
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Basilisk Paw | 
|
1000g |
| Fairy Box | 
|
1000g |
| Frog Egg | 
|
1000g |
| Golden Spur | 
|
1000g |
| Ice Rod | 
|
1000g |
| Magic Hair Gel | 
|
1000g |
| Magic Quiver | 
|
1000g |
| Parrot Egg | 
|
1000g |