Today was a fairly big patch for Hellgate: London, so of course I had to pop on and check it out.

A lot of it doesn’t directly affect me, since although a lot of Marksman skills were changed, I didn’t use the ones shared with the Engineer class very much anyway. The new stuff in The Wild is also beyond my reach at the moment since it’s a really tough zone.

What was immediately obvious though, was the changes to the experience and damage curves in Nightmare mode. I was previously stuck and unable to proceed much farther since I could barely scratch any enemies, but tonight I managed to get my engineer to the end of Act 4 and partway through level 42, which would have been impossible before.

The really big new feature though, was the in-game mail system. Finally, I’ll be able to mail good items to my other characters that can make better use of them, and to other people I know from some forums.