I wished that was the drop rate for me >_
I went through 7 hours of gruelling grinding, both with the BP black skeleton and the black skeleton in the hidden passage in 4-2.

I spent exactly 3 hours with the hidden passage one, at 50 seconds per run, that's over 200 tries, just for that skeleton.

The actual drop rate for me was 1 in 400 :P

so now that you do have the pure bladestone...was it worth it lolz isn't the upgrade a dex based weapon? Finally got enuff spiderstones >

it is so weak ;)

well, take your best weapon and apply magic spell on it. Rely on herd to heal you. It is possible to dominate 1 maneater.

So you have to play your best to kill the first one before the 2nd one appear.

then, it is a bit more complicated since the 2 demon will clearly dominate you.

So what I have done is :

RUN RUN RUN the one extremety, and BOW BOW BOW on the one coming to you

then, block/roll and ....

RUN RUN RUN the one extremety, and BOW BOW BOW on the one coming to you

you should be able to quickly kill one of your foe and the remaining one can be killed with the same stas or in close combat with timed rolling/blocking

@libellule

That's the strategy I used in my first playthrough, after being killed 3 times before by them :P

But now, with a bit more skill, I can easily take both of them without even using the Bow nor the central torch, just time your dodges correctly and use Warding, the battle becomes much easier xD

@lestat

I went to (2-1), and managed ti kill the "Armed Spider" and got my body back

But i toke ur advice and went to 4-1....and lost my body to these..rolling skeletons

You said it was easier than 2-1

I cheaped the maneaters...if you stand as close as you can to the left of the fog you can shoot arrows at one maneater...get it to like | | that much life, come in and boom one shot it! now it's 1v1 =)

@Lestat started NG+ 1-1 certainly didn't feel 2x as hard, if anything it was 2x easier lol, got invaded right when I made it to the boss :/ killed the boss and didn't even see the bp lol.

I've heard that you're able to do that and I'm starting to consider it :p Will try a few more times, have just equiped warding so hopefully that will be some help.

I just killed my first demon, the phalax and he was quite easy. Just had to throw fire bombs on him and finished him off with my weapon.

I haven't killed the dragons yet because they look too hard.

Before I faced the Phalax, I fell down a some staires and died. I felt so stupid.

It is easier than 4-1, did you read the rest of my advice saying that you have to keep your shields up all the time? :P 

If you found that hard, just wait until 2-2, those pickaxe miners will rip you to shreads in less than two hits >_< 

@Grahamhsu

Just wait until you get further down the game :) I found 1-1 to be extremely easy as well on NG+, but it was after that, that I felt the full difficulty of NG+, especially on boss battles.

@sabby_e17

You'll need at least 200 arrows to kill the red Dragon, and that's counting that you have at least 12 Dexterity and don't miss too many arrows. 

Which reminds me, first time i went to the Nexus i found a hint one the floor saying

"Valuable Treasure ahead" walked a Little bit then found another saying "Treasure this way"

and then i found a bloodstain on the floor. I pressed X and a red spirit came running

i said to my self "maybe it will show me how to get it

So i followed it up the stairs. He then rolled over and felled down, and i thought maybe there is a secret area down there

And i did the same xD