Well, I didn’t hit level 49 tonight in Hellgate: London like I hoped I would. I did get some nifty new weapons, though. I’d found a unique sniper rifle yesterday, the Voodoo Rifle, but didn’t take a close look at it until today, and it turned out to be a lot better than I thought. It does three different types of damage, has high base ignite and stun ratings, and part of the damage is splashed over an area effect, including the stun if you add a physical damage mod.

I don’t usually like to use sniper rifles since they have a really slow rate of fire, so you have to make each shot count, and it’s annoying how the screen shakes when you fire it. After slapping in some mods to add fire damage and increase the ignite attack rating though, I think it’ll be my primary weapon from here on, as ignite and the stun kick in fairly often. Enemies that usually rush towards me are often held still and killed before even getting close now.

I also found a couple pistols with some skill buffs for summoning a better drone, for buff equipment. There’s only one or two points on each though, and I can certainly do better, but I’ll just have to cross my fingers and hope for good drops.

And finally, I used the skill retrainer I’d been holding on to to reset my allocated skills to zero. But I didn’t spend any, either. The 2.0 patch is due sometime soon and it’ll add new skills to the class, so I don’t want to spend any until I see what they are. But I had to use it now, because they’ll be giving out a new retrainer with the patch, but you can’t have more than one. This way, I get to respend my skill points and still hold on to the new retrainer, effectively getting a free one.