Talk:Bloodred Crystal/@comment-71.193.164.69-20130605224622

This is one of those materials that actually gets harder to obtain the closer to max level you get. At max level, I ended up just going solo into the Midnight Helix, taking out the cursed dragon on the bottom floor, then slowly making my way upwards, taking on a strigoi or two at a time (though one is best). You need to let them latch onto you and begin to damage you - their midsection will briefly glow red with each bite while you are prompted to wiggle the LS. I just wiggled the LS until I was close to free so I could get out in a hurry and kill them off after they'd siphoned off about 1000 health. I have no idea if the amount of damage they do actually has any effect on how likely a bloodreed crystal is to drop, but I had the health to spare, so I was trying to make sure. The tip of the strigoi tail will clearly glow when they have managed to blood you (or someone else in the party) so you are unlikely to miss it. From the time I finished off the cursed dragon on the ground level, it took me probably 15-20 minutes of repeating this process to finally land a bloodred crystal. I'm on XBL if you haven't been able to get one on your own - tag is Isometric.