)its normal.if you play just 5 souls this is what will hapen in most of the cases .but if you start to play more souls ...there is a diferent thing.last week i play like 70 souls on maritimers and i get one serpentine blade.
gold gold and gold you make very good rom the stoneskin potion.the manufacturing cost is somewhere at 650-700 gold and you can sell them to the troll market to 900 or 1050 gold for one.