Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-24721972-20140512132647/@comment-4849455-20140629202718

Dasvildanya wrote: I think that you have to have a SM tier list written down speaks volumes as to why there needs to be a change. But going back to what Templar said, then what is the point of builds? If there is no reason to not be max level then there is no reason to make a specific build. There is also no reason to not only use Havel's. The system now encourages there being absolutely no variety.

And the limited respawn system absolutely does not work. People just work around it with the bonfire ascetics. When you also have items as important as Human Effigies, limiting them means that you can screw over certain players who don't feel they're are ready to advance yet. The points in builds in Dark Souls 2 is kinda redundant and irrelevant as the whole meta for the game has been completely changed. Stop clinging to old ways and just embrace the new game, like From wanted it to be instead of whining about the changes. Seriously what the heck is the point of making a new game if all you're going to do is whine about how its nothing like the first game at all.

Limited respawn system is to help balance out the game, as with the first one you could farm forever, which presented the problem of having too much of an item for no obvious reason, nor does it help the player improve at all. Dark Souls 2 is meant to be hard thus, you want to get better which is why Bonfire ascetics are introduced. If you want to farm more then simply burn one, but at the cost of increasing the games difficulty. And its not like you simply cannot collect or buy the items anyway, literally i've collected a lot of things by simply opening chests. Human effgies are supposed to be limited, it gives you that factor to not die, if you can avoid it, but death is unavoidable.

SM is a fresh idea and I personally like it and think its well implemented. If you want to limit yourself for a build feel free, but the game itself will not cater to your old ways of viewing things, nor should From go back on their design choices, simply because you and everyone else refuse to accept change.