Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-9375302-20130611180505/@comment-667748-20130612061733

Difference is trivial. By SL 550, the only two stats left to raise are Resistance, 12 -> 99 (bleed resist, whoop de freeking doo), and attunement 50 -> 99 (literally useless).

Heck, by 380, you can have Vitality and Endurance at 99, nd every other (non resistance stat) at 50. There is very little incentive to push past that. And even then, while it makes sense to invest in both Str and Dex, there is very little sense in pushing both int and faith.

As far as I'm concerned, after about SL 200, your character is basically maxed, in all "reasonable" sense of the term.