Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-24721972-20140512132647/@comment-24682999-20140629204457

As Key of Twilight and Cosmic said, SM and limited respawns are in place to FORCE you to grow stonger. It is made so that you cannot indefintely farm for titanite and other gear without having any sort of obsacles. If you want to farm, you're going to have to fight increasingly tougher enemies. If you don't level up to accomodate for the increasing difficulty, that is your problem. This was done in order to move away from the Dark Souls 1 mindset of "I'm gonna make my build, have everything the way I want it, and stay that way forever."

From never said that you were meant to create builds. So saying that they have made them irrelevant as if they ever cared is a mistake. Sure, you can have an initial build, and most of the cheap-asses out there will use Havel's set and whatnot. If I recall correctly, though, most people in the 150-200 SL range in Dark Souls did the same damn thing. Did I use it then? No. Do I use it now? No.

You're argument for this petition boils down to: "I don't want to adapt to the new system! I like the old system!" To which the answer is going to be: "If you like the old system, go play Dark Souls 1."