Filters

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Filters are a mechanic that helps you only see drops that you want to see. This greatly reduces the time you spend looking through every drop and determining which pieces of gear to keep and which to throw away. They cannot hide opals, set items, or unique items however, and it's likely that no one wants to hide these items.

To access filters, click on the loot inventory and then the center button at the bottom. At first, there will only be two windows, Active Filter and Loot Filter. In the top-right, there is a toggle for 'Advanced' which will show the most important third window, Overrides. This is where you make your own rules. This page will go through each of them and explain how they work.

* **Active Filter** is where you select the filter you wish to use or edit, and where you make new ones. Clicking 'New' will ask you to name the filter, and choose between shared (visible to all characters) or not (only visible to the character the filter was created on).
* **Overrides** is where you create the rules of the filter. Clicking 'New' will bring up a list of every item that drops, as well as categories of drops such as 'All Weapons' or 'Light Armor'.
* **Loot Filter** is the where you customize the rules of the override. Selecting an override on the left will bring up options here, depending on the item: Summary, Minimum Rarity, Visibility, Minimum Durability, and Affixes.

This is a lot to start, and too much to summarize. Specific class and build guides will explain what to set the specific sections to. This page will explain how to set them.

## Basics

At its core, the filter is used to only show what you tell it. To start, make a new filter and choose whether you want to access it on every character or just the current one. Make sure 'Advanced' in the top right is enabled to see the Overrides section. Create an override for whichever item or grouping you wish to see. You can now choose to show or hide this item or group based on its rarity, number of matching affixes, durability, and any combination. The summary section above these options will show exactly what the override is set to check for (i.e: Show items of type 'Potion'). Once you make any changes to the filter, you must click 'Apply' in order for the changes to take effect, which acts as saving the filter.

## Override Specifics

### Default

* Every filter has a 'Default' override that cannot be deleted. This serves as a minimum rarity to always show. While the rarity can technically be disabled, doing so will cause EVERY SINGLE ITEM to be visible, regardless of other settings. It is recommended to keep this override set to a high rarity, such as AAAAA or S, since they have uses for complex crafting.

### Crafting Base Override

* A simple override that just checks for a specific item that has a certain amount of affixes, regardless of rarity. Extremely useful in the early game for finding the occasional upgrade, or for anyone looking to craft gear that matches what they need.
* Create an override matching the gear item you wish to specify, then turn on the Affix filter. Set the minimum number of affixes to however many are needed, and then make sure that the only selected affixes are ones that you want on the item, with at least the minimum number of affixes selected.
* Example: A crafting base override for any Sapphire Staff that has at least four of the chosen six affixes. The 'type' is the item chosen for the override. The affix filter is the only one enabled, and minimum affixes is set to 4.
	+ Show items of type 'Two-Handed Cold Staff' with 4 or more affixes from the list below
		- Adds ?-? cold damage
		- ?% increased weapon cold damage
		- ?% increased weapon elemental damage/+? mana
		- ?% increased attack speed
		- ?% increased total attack speed
		- ? mana on kill

### Essence Hunting Override

* An override designed to show items that have a desirable affix of a certain rarity or higher. This means you can selectively loot gear that's useful for disassembly, and ignore anything that has no affixes that match your build. This reduces clutter by a significant margin and is able to be edited to higher/lower rarities or different affixes as you progress. You can even have more specific version to hunt for rarer affixes like Movement Speed or All Resistances.
* Create an override for All Items, and turn on both the Rarity and Affix filters. Keep minimum affixes at 1, and select every single affix you're looking for. This can take a little while. Set the minimum rarity to a reasonable level based on your Magic Find and character progress (if following a guide, it will likely specify this rarity).
* Example: An essence hunting override looking for specific rare affixes at a lower rarity than a generic essence hunting override. Settling for lower rarity versions of these affixes can help keep progression smooth, and just prevent frustration in general.
	+ Show all items with rarity AA or higher with 1 or more affixes from the list below
		- ?% increased movement speed
		- ?% increased life leech rate
		- +?% to all resistances

### Crafting/Misc Overrides

* A collection of overrides meant to prevent clutter from other random items. Some players have no use for things like Blacksmith's Hammers, or want to only see certain Reinforcement items that match their current character. Compared to the last two, this one is very simple: Select the item you wish to hide in the overrides list. Set the visibility to hide. It's now hidden, and can be toggled as you need them. Using this for portals, Helheim keys, and the varying potions can help prevent stash spaces from becoming bloated with more resources than can be used, yet allows for quickly turning them back on if you run out.

## Notes

This is meant to be a very loose introduction to filtering as a whole. I intended it to be as clear as possible for new players, and clear up features for anyone who wants to play around with filters. If you find anything that is incorrect, misleading, or just straight up confusing, please contact me (Shadrae Lux) in the official Discord with whatever you happened to notice. Or, if you feel like it, change it! I welcome the community to build this information and the wiki as a whole.