First the current loot filter tools is already a very good tools ! thanks for it !
(and same for the whole game of course !)
Something is missing in the loot filter for me.
Be able to have “empty/all” value in the filters.
2 Examples:
the class filter allow to get 1 or several class restriction.
But if you want to create a filter for 1 specific class, but keep also all item not requiering any class, it is not possible… so in the class list, there should be choice like “not restricted”.
Quite the same for affix filter, but more complicated maybe.
At high level we look for “perfect items” with 4 specifix affix (or not much more).
So in the filter, it seems logic to put “at least 4 affix of the selected affix”.
But if an item with 3 of these affix drop and nothing for 4th affix, it is quite interesting, but it will not be visible with such filter…
So maybe there is some twink possible to count the “slot with no affix” as a “joker” slot in such filters.
My bad if I misunderstood your point, but I think those are possible
First one
Not restricted is the “show” option on the left side. A separate line in the loot filter to show those non-class restricted item would do what you wanted there.
Second one
Either use at least 3 affix. Then the other one would be the joker affix.
Or
Duplicate your 4-affix filter to a new one and change the new one to 3-affix filter.
for “simple” filter yes, you can do like that.
but if you want all item for usable by one class (so restricted to that class or not), with affix Y , level < Z … and any other filter… it will not work.
not working sorry.
if i set “at least 3 affix”, the 4th slot will not always be empty, and my idea is to able to get directly all item with 4 specific affix, or an empty slot to add the missing affix.
(And same eventually for item with 2 specific affix and 2 empty slot.)
You can use that if you create a hide rule with all the classes you don’t want to se, and leave the class you want to see open. This way you see class specific items from that class and non class restricted items.
You can then do more recolour/shiw rules behind that rule if you further want to filter those items.
I would agree that a condition for empty affix slot would be great for some scenarios.
But what I do almost exclusively for filtering with affixes is using the “Total Affix Tiers of:” and setting it to “more or equal”
I do create multiple of the same rules for the same item slots with staggered tier counts and different colour coding. Like 8, 10, 12 for example.
Yes this will still sometiems show Items with undesired affixes, but runes of removal are not that rare in LE and you just have to try it.
If a rune of removal is successful or an Item already only has desired affixes, this way of filtering is way more powerfull, because having all the affixes you want on an Item is not that good baseline.
Having higher affix tiers is way more powerful, because crafting T0-T1 or T1-T2 is very likely to succeed.
With my suggested way of filtering some of the desired affixes are already pretty high tier.
With this method you also can keep the “with at least X of these affixes on te same item” on 1. since for example Tier 12 will only show items, that at least have 3 affixes, excluding exalted items (which I do filter way differently anyway)
for the class, i am looking for a bit more complex filter
I will try to make a quick example:
i have my main “rogue” with specific filter item slot by item slot, very detailled filters.
But at the same time, i’d like to not miss good stuff for my alts.
If i have a void knight using void dmg, and mage using lighting.
If i set a filter with any item with void dmg bonus and lighting dmg bonus, i will get item for primalist/Acolyte/rogue also… or void for mage, and lighting for VK…
so the idea is to be able to create filter with “VK + no restricted” + void dmg
and another “Mage + no retricted class” + lighting dmg.
For affix, honestly, i dont use the rune of removal… i don’t like it
oh yes , good idea for the magic item, but still need a lot of line of filter to create for a “quite generic” filter…
maybe adding a category in the rarity for 3 affix item could help also. but still several lines of filter to create for 1 “kind of” items.
There aren’t that many class- specific items, only relic, body armour and helmets.
For Rogue there are also Bows and Quivers.
Everything you said here can be achieved with a set of hide and show/recolour rules for those specific slots.
And for all other slots class restriction doesn’t matter anyway.
It’s ok, that you don’t like it, but from what i gathered from your few posts, is that you want a very efficient and complex filter. Using Rune Of Removals is one of the best ways to get yoru hands on an incredible good item.
It’s way more likely to get an Item with 3 deisred affixes and 1 undesired affix, than getting an item with 4 desired affixes.
And if the item with 3 desired affixes has T11-15 on the desired affixes, using a rune of removal on it and being lucky with the removal process, wil lgive you an incredible crafting base, that is way better than a 4x desired affix item with only T1-2 affixes for example.
Removing affixes adds instability and is an absolutely random process. So an empty affix slot is much more preferable for crafting. I agree with Tielan - an option to specify empty affix slots as a search criteria is what I would call a great improvement to the LE loot filter
AS I said, I am totally for adding that option, but rune of removal only adds 1-2 stability.
It’s just about your potential chances to find a good Item.
Finding a very good with with 1 undesired affix, but having 3 desired affixes is way more likely and thus you should definitely use rune of removals on those items.
Yes a lot of them will remove the wrong affix and you can trash the item.
But from my personaly experience, that is the single best way of getting a very good item.
With an option to filter with empty affix slots 3 desired affix slot items with and empty affix will become way easier, I totally get that.
Heavy, is it possible to make a rule where I set one affix that must be on an item (a must-have affix) and 6 other affixes any three of them can be on an item (I don’t care which three exactly)?
For example, I would like to find a turquoise ring that must have a critical avoidance affix + any 3 out of 6 other affixes.
The closest you could do is only show turqoise rings with at least CSA (any tier your want) as an affix + 0-3 affixes of those 6 you want.
You would do this with a 2 part rule set consiting of a hide rule and a show/recolour rule.
Here is how this would look like. This method works best on a slot by slot basis. TEST.xml (5.2 KB)
The ability to select affixes as “must be on the item” would be a really cool feature I would like to see. Maybe like a additional box to tick besides all the affixes you select in the affix condition window.
