Quote Originally Posted by Unavenger View Post
I can count on no hands the number of times that a DM I've played with has reacted to a player's DR by equipping more than a couple of enemies with an appropriate weapon type. More importantly, if they're spending their money/time/spell slots/actions on silver weapons, they're not spending those resources on being stronger in general, which means that even if your DR/silver is being negated, it's still doing something - wasting enemy effort that might otherwise be spent on things which aren't bypassing your DR.

I still don't think it really saves this from being just LA +1, but it's so many levels of not the case that DR/silver is only useful for the first few encounters of a campaign that it pains me that some people are actually trying to argue that.
Wouldn’t that depend largely from table to table? Your DR helps immensely due to your hit points being rather poor, especially at higher levels. Besides, silver weapons might be considerable investment, but silver ammunition really isn’t.