I played Hellgate: London for a bit more today, but quickly encountered the main problem I’m having with it right now: level limits. The amount of damage you do to monsters goes down as their level increases above yours, and at about 9 levels and above, you do very little damage at all. Right now I’m level 41, but the next area I need to travel to has level 50 monsters, making progress through it excruciatingly slow.

So, if I want to progress any further, I need to grind out some more xp in lower level areas like Stonehenge. But, you also gain xp very slowly at these higher levels, making it a very tedious process.

I wound up just bouncing back and forth between stations for a while in order to reset the crafting vendor, since I’ve got a ton of raw components I can use. I did manage to find a couple nifty items to replace my boots and shoulders, and some better shield penetration and ignite rating mods for my main weapon. Too bad that doesn’t really help with the level difference, though…