Why do some people stop their builds at 150? Is that where the soft cap begins? Does level affect things like overall resistance or damage output?
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I'm a lil older and have played all the Dark Souls games. The 'meta' level was like 120-125 for them all for a few reasons. All my characters are 125 or lower besides 1 character I brought to 150 in Elden Ring.
Edit: I think some you tube streamers when the game came out introduced the 150 cap.
I laughed at some of these posts saying we probably just ran thru the game and didn't kill all the bosses or explored everything was pretty funny reading how some of you think.
PvP was weird but damn it was fun. If you wanted to be in the largest pool of players you'd stay around 120.
Builds. To have a build you have to make sacrifices. If your 'build' allows you to use every weapon and spell/incantation then it's not a build.. It's just overpowered or playing easy mode. The best part about these games are making new builds for me so I stay mostly at 125 max.
All that said there has always been players who leveled passed 125 in all the games. You can play however you like and now that Elden Ring has reached a ton of players there are probably lots of people in all kinds of level ranges compared to ds1 thru 3.