The new patch is awesome, I’m somewhat late to the party but really enjoying it so far. I’ve played since Alpha, but still haven’t figured out the way to loot comfortably. What I do for my loot now is, just remembering the names of affix I need and pick them up accordingly. I don’t remember all yet so I sometimes have to hover over a cursor to see what they actually are. This gets my eyes pretty tired quickly for some reason. I often find myself only looting shards and crafting stuff, then get my gears mostly through gambling. It’s easier and faster(spending less time checking items on the ground, etc) for me. This game lets you know what affixes dropped gears have, without needing to identify with a scroll or something. Which, IMO the most convenient item drop system in ARPG that really saves me from a lot of headache. So thanks to the dev for that. I know it cannot get easier than this, I don’t beg for a change or anything. I just want to know what strategy you guys have, or use.
I currently generally just inspect very specific base types for each slot. I might miss alot of potentially good affix combination, but i guess that will happen in some form or another with every looting strategy that try to spare some time.
I am very picky and just inspect ONE certain body and helmet base type for my main build(Melee Lich). One certain Amulet and 2 different rings.
But for those base types i do inspect all blues that have 2 affixes and yellows.
Blues can potentially be very strong when you have high tiers on them.
I think most people overlook blues in this games, partially because you need to somehow “pre-filter” in your looting proccess because nobody wants to inspect items like 75% of their playtime.
Sometimes i also inspect all items for certain slots for shattering, when i desperately need certain affix shards.
I’m personally don’t look at any yellow or blue at the moment, can’t be bothered. Only look for purples and idols sometimes. I do pick up unique to sell them.
I just try to recognice as much item and affix combination names as possible and only scan for these. I don’t care for base items because if I get no good items I simply shatter them into crafting mats.
We really need a loot filter. 
amen brother
Yay, another thread about how we need a loot filter.
Personally I’ll pick up everything yellow & have a scan over the blues while I’m running past to see if there are any rare affixes on them. Because, you know, we need a loot filter.
i check/pick only base item i need for my char to craft on it that may give me improvement and also i take unique/set/Idol then base item that may spawn affix that i don’t have a lot for their shard
Edit edit: i pick Exalted purple item too
Ignore all whites
Set loot information to shortest / least information
Remember what the BiS and/or 2nd best items are for gear what you need and hover only over these. I.E Not Sovnya? No hover.
If you’re not crit or fire damage, don’t check relics, only gamble them since they’re 50 gold
Blue items are fine as already having 2x T4+ for stats you need can produce very good results
If you have a better than 2x T5 and 2x T4 item or an item you’re most likely not going to beat, or a BiS unique - ignore the type on the ground completely
Don’t hoard items which you don’t need - 1 affix purples and random idols are common mistakes
I’m new so I Hoard everything 
Set items names preview to “Long” in the options.
Every affix has a name, once you start rolling through a lot of items on the ground you will notice some names that are uncommon, these are the ones you want to loot and shatter.
Examples:
Purifier - set necro/poison resist
Leviathan - set health
Protective - set protections
Lightbringer - set armor & void res
of Reflection - dmg when echo
Catapult - throwing dmg (and mana?)
Lucid - Cooldowns iirc
(there are a lot of super rare class specific gear that you will just spot by the unusual names)
Also for the common affixes, if you are looking for certain shards that you need, just check what name it gives and search for it e.g. sentinel’s (block effectiveness).
This way sometimes you will have looted an item with the T4-5 mod with the correct base in your inventory and it is ready to go for extra T4-T5 crafting, you can get lucky and find gear already with 2+ T5-T4 ready to be crafted.
This one came to me pretty much as it is with one T4 that easily went to T5
And this one, not perfect base but i originally looted the purifier and later noticed in the inventory the purifier + leviathan + life combo so i crafted all to T4 plus the hybrid health and kept it (notice that none of these two items are fractured)
I disagree with this strategy. It takes too much cognitive fuel to read everything on the ground all the time in their longest form.
If the name is “Leviathan Purifier’s Refuge Armor of Life and the Giant”, you just spent 1 second reading a name which is on a base that you’ll never use which is a lot in the context of sorting loot.
The best is to simply use the shortest and quickly hover over bases which you need. This is the fastest, least exhausting and most effective way to go through loot without having to make long stops every time you kill a mob.
If you see that there’s an uncommon Guardian Shield of any uncommon kind on the ground, you’ll still check it, no matter the name.
Considering that shards drop all the time, you check the store quite often, use gambling and still hover over bases which you need - the shard problem shouldn’t be a problem - it wasn’t a problem for me at least.
It takes way less than a second, probably 2 seconds for an entire chest lootsplosion on the ground.
Long names is a way to instantly know the affixes at glance without hovering and i use it and trust me it works wonders after you learn what are all the affixes (which doesnt take long once you start rolling on drops from the MOF).
Previously I used to have short names and hover over things for the tooltip and it was slower. With long names i just look at the bunch of stuff on the ground (regardless of bases) and the eye will spot the rare affix.
Also it is the only way i have to get those rare and super rare shards like of the abyss and of reflection, i have a palpable example recently i wanted to use: set dodge - obscuring which i always skipped and right now i have only 20 shards which is not enough
I really find it fascinating how different the approaches are, but there is no “best” solutions atm anyway. Some people prefer just checking desired bases(like me), some people really want to look out for certain rare affixes via long item names to shatter them and then start crafting later with that.
In the end everybody should do what fatigues him the least.
I understand it is something you are not used to if you come from an ID system (loot then identify) like in poe and diablo and I don’t want to push it too much but to me having items already IDed on ground (akin to GD) is a win win on all sides.
Let me give a list of pro cons and i will also give a strong example:
CON: Need some adjustment time to learn all the affixes BUT:
PROS:
- Will train your brain
- Quicker than hovering stuff one by one
- No need to hover over things almost ever, only need to hover rarely for a closer inspection or to learn new affixes
- So far to me is the only way to catch all of these super rare shards, if you are using short names you are never going to spot them, and if you look only for high bases you are missing on so many shards. So you kinda need long names.
- You can still use a lower tier base that happened to have multiple T4s in the meantime that you are waiting for the bis base to drop
Let me show you something that happened right now, I have done a lv100 area and opened the chest, i spotted this one very quickly without hovering, just from the unusual name. Upon inspection it is a T4 super rare on the worst base ever, no way you were going to loot and shatter it with short names:
Edit: another one
Yes, I am still in the loot everything, kill every monster phase myself!
Though, after 4 tabs of idols, I am ready to let that quest go!
I pick up yellows, purples, uniques and all crafting mats.
I still run back a screen for 6 gold, I NEED help! LOL
Started my second unique tab, and then there are the sets too…
Think I have 10 tabs, time for some inventory management, since I started SSF, I don’t need 99.9% of what I have hoarded, but I just want to learn what is available…
I’ve gotten real good and efficient at scanning the items slots I need and the affixes I want.
But my eyes get tired also and I can’t play more the 30min before I take a break.
The loot filter will be HUGE for me.
Bro, according to this strat you will miss TONS of useful affixes you can shard.
honestly , ignore non unique/set or under t6 mod .
The loot is awful in this game, nothing good ever drops so I stopped looking.