Especially now with the recent changes that allow us to set a required number of matching affixes.
I want to create a new set of rules that highlight items differently depending on whether they have 1, 2, 3 or 4 desired affixes.
Currently the only way to do this is to manually pick out all of my desired affixes 4 times, which is incredibly tedious.
Agreed, but for the moment… if you are adventureous enough and can handle a little XML editing, you can duplicate your rules with a little copy and paste in the actual filter file…
Just back it up before you make manual changes and be aware that if you bork it up badly, your game might go a little weird until you revert back to a working version.