The Twin Basolk are a pair of 
Heat-based Grineer axes.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000.
Characteristics
- This weapon deals primarily Heat damage.
- Can use the Twin Basolk-exclusive
Rift Strike mod. - Stance slot has
polarity, matches Swirling Tiger stance. - Innate
polarity.
Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Second highest base damage of all dual swords, behind
Twin Krohkur. - Highest status chance of all dual swords.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very high status chance (40.00%)
Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low crit chance (5.00%)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Acquisition
The Twin Basolk's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 30,000 |
 Dual Zoren1 |
 Atomos1 |
 Control Module2 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: 185
|
 Blueprints Price:15,000
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Notes
- Due to the crafting requirements including Atomos and Dual Zoren, without spending platinum, Twin Basolk costs 180,000, 4
Morphics, 2 
Argon Crystal, 2,400 
Salvage, 1,300 
Polymer Bundle, 1,100 
Ferrite, 800 
Alloy Plate and 800 
Rubedo. The lowest possible time spent crafting the Twin Basolk is 36 hours, assuming the Atomos and Dual Zoren are finished at the same time (although the Dual Zoren can be started any time within 12 hours of starting Atomos, and still retain the 36 hour total build time).
Trivia
- When attacking, the weapons' discs seem to light up and spin, indicating some kind of kinetic charge is used to provide the Heat damage.
- Basolk appears to be a corruption of Basalt, a type of volcanic rock.
- The Twin Basolk is the first dual melee weapon to use the 'Twin' prefix instead of 'Dual'.
- The Twin Basolk is the sixth weapon after the
Redeemer, 
Tipedo, 
Panthera, 
Boltace and 
Akjagara to require multiple different weapons as crafting requirements.
Gallery
Twin Basolk in Codex.
Media
Twin Basolk Skins
Patch History
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Mastery Rank increased from 3 to 7.
- Damage increased from 65 Heat to 210 (55 Impact, 15 Puncture, 55 Slash, and 85 Heat).
- Range increased from 1 to 2.4.
- Slam Attack increased from 130 to 420.
- Slide Attack increased from 390 to 420.
- Parry Angle set to 60.
- (Undocumented) Follow Through decreased from 0.6 to 0.5.
Update 19.4.2 (2016-12-20)
- Fixed Kuva Cord Sugatra not attaching properly to the Twin Basolk.
Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08)
- Increased the Twin Basolk Status Chance to 40% and increased Elemental damage to 65.
- Slightly Increased Twin Basolk attack speed.
- Increased Twin Basolk Ground Slam damage by 4x , attack radius to 7.5m, and Status Chance to 65%.
- Twin Basolk Ground Slams can now ragdoll enemies.
Hotfix 18.0.2 (2015-12-04)
- Fixed a crash that would occur when switching between the Twin Basolk and Archwing loadouts.
Update 17.8 (2015-10-21)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
See Also
- Dual Zoren, a similar Tenno weapon and a requirement to crafting this weapon.
- Atomos, a weapon required to craft this weapon.
Dual Ichor, similar Infested dual swords with elemental damage.
Ignis, a primary weapon that shares the same visual theme.
