I spent a bit more time in Hellgate: London tonight working my way towards Stonehenge in nightmare mode, and it took a bit longer than expected. Despite being only one station away and having done most of the quests there yesterday, I forgot that I still had a squad control mission and Mind of 314 to go through before I could go to the next one.

The squad mission turned out to be a real pain. Although I had infinite squad members to restart with if they all died, running them all back down to the final boss was annoying, and he could summon groups of monsters that would rapidly kill off the squad. It was a matter of continually restarting with a new squad, running down to the end, trying to get in an airstrike or two on the boss to wear him down a bit before the squad died, and repeating until finally finishing him off.

Mind of 314 wasn’t too bad though, and perhaps even slightly easier than when I did it on normal difficulty. It just took a while since I kept choosing the wrong path to follow at each branch.

And so I finally arrived at Temple Station and can go to Stonehenge. I don’t have enough essences to unlock the generals’ gates yet though, so I’m leaving it there for tonight and will start the farming some other time.