Understanding Maxroll Loot Filters

Introduction

In our Loot Filter Guide we showed you the basics of how the Loot Filter works. In this guide we show you how to get the most out the Filters we use in our own guides at Maxroll. If you're using one of our guides and you want to make some adjustments to the filter or just want a better understanding of how it works, then this guide is for you! The guide covers both Endgame and Leveling guides, so no matter where you are in the game you can benefit from understanding the ins and outs of Loost Filters.

Our Filters are designed to be intuitive, so they don't require a high level understanding of the game to figure out. They follow the standard item color scheme as much as possible so transitioning to them is easy. They're also designed with customization in mind. They work great out of the box but are easily modifiable to fit your style and adapt to your own progress. We want you to use our filters in whatever way you choose!

We highly recommend you have one of our Loot Filters open while reading through this guide. It makes it much easier to follow along and understand all the aspects of the Filter as they're covered. Use the Filter for the build you are currently playing. If you haven't chosen a build yet, here's an example you can use instead.

Learn how to load and make Filters with our Loot Filter Guide.

Endgame Build Guides

The Filters for these guides need to handle a wide variety of gear scenarios, from just starting the build to pushing for Best in Slot items. To accomplish this, we've broken up certain parts of the filter to emphasize items that are even better than usual. Having this functionality in place provides the added benefit of allowing players to turn off the less strict rules in the filter once their gear makes those rules obsolete.

Below we guide you through every rule in the filter, explaining how they work and offering tips to customize the filter. We start at the bottom and work our way to the top.

Bottom Rule - The 'Catch All'

To sum it up, this rule catches all of the junk. Remember from the Loot Filter Guide that rules higher up in the Filter take priority over rules below. This means that the very top rule has highest priority, while the bottom rule has lowest. Our 'catch all' rule is there to filter anything that happens to get through all of the other rules, hiding them from sight. Anything that makes it this far isn't worth picking up, so it makes sense to just remove it altogether. This rule only Filters for Common, Magic and Rare items because you're choosing to see every, Idol, Unique and Exalted drop (you never know when one of those could be exceptionally good, even if it isn't for the build you're playing).

This rule filters out all of the items that make it past the other rules.

Idols

This is a set of two rules that handle all of your Idol Filtering. You want to see all Idols because they can be very valuable even if they aren't for your build, but you also want to easily identify ones that do have the right build affixes. The lowest rule recolors any Idols that have at least one affix that could be good for the build you're playing. The second recolors and also emphasizes particularly good Idols with two high value affixes.

Together, these two rules make it clear when a good Idol for your build drops.

Recoloring For Shatter/Removal

These two rules exist to help find items that you can break down for crafting Shards. Some affixes can be hard to come by if you relied on just picking up Shards on the ground, use Rune of Shattering and Rune of Removal to find these more reliably. The lower rule looks for Affixes that are relatively rare early on but eventually become plentiful. The higher rule emphasize particularly rare affixes that you may have a hard time finding for much longer. You can add and remove Affixes from either of these rules as you need to assist you with finding the Shards you need.

For more information on this Crafting method check out our Beginner Crafting Guide.

These rules help you build up your Shard inventory so you can craft the items you need.

Show All Exalted Items

Since you don't want to hide any Exalted items you need a rule to make sure it doesn't happen, and this is that rule. Put it this far down so any Exalted items that are especially good for your build will be emphasized by a different rule higher in the Filter.

This rule ensures that you never hide an Exalted item.

Show Rules

This set of rules and the next make up the bulk of the Filter. Here you have rules that are tailored to the specific item types you want to find (Example: Shadow Daggers has a rule for Daggers but not Wands because the build doesn't use Wands). They shows items of the right item type that also fit the following parameters:

Only the subtypes that are valuable to the build (Example: low level weapon bases will almost never be shown).
Have at least two of the affixes you are looking for.

If the item fits these parameters it will show and follow the traditional color scheme for those items (Magic, Rare, or Exalted).

All of the conditions for the 'show' rules.

Show Rules (Strict)

This set of rules is similar to the previous set, but the requirements are much stricter. If an item fits the parameters of one of these rules it follows the traditional color scheme and is also emphasized. The parameters for this rule are:

Only the subtypes that are valuable to the build (Example: low level weapon bases will almost never be shown).
Have at least three of the affixes you are looking for.
Each affix must be at least Tier 3.

The purpose of this set is twofold: It makes especially valuable items stand out from the rest while also providing a rule that is more suited to late game item hunting. Once a player has found and crafted an item that is better than anything the basic 'show' rule would offer, they can turn off that rule by deselecting the check box. Then they will only see items that fit this much stricter rule.

All of the conditions for the 'show (strict)' rules.

Recolor High Value Affixes

Some affixes are so valuable you want to see them regardless of what item they're on. This is especially true early on when build defining affixes, like ones that increase the level of an important skill, have not been added to the build. Exceptionally high value Idol affixes can also go here. We encourage adding and removing Affixes to this rule as you need.

Some Affixes are too good to miss. This rule makes sure you don't.

Show All Unique/Set Items

you typically always want to see these items because they always have the potential to be exceptional. This is especially true for Uniques that can roll with Legendary Potential, making an otherwise ordinary item have the capacity for something much greater. That's why this rule sits at the top, ensuring you never miss one of these potentially high value items. If you have all of the Set items and don't want to see those any more you can deselect it from the rule, but we highly recommend checking every Unique that drops!

For more information on Legendaries check out our Legendary Items Crafting Guide.

These are high value items, so you want to always see them.

Leveling Build Guides

A Loot Filter allows you to remove items from the display that you no longer want to see. Items that are filtered out still drop, but their nameplates are no longer visible. This makes it much easier to see the items you want while avoiding unnecessarily sifting through gear that isn't relevant to your build or isn't valuable enough to pick up. They also allow you to display items differently by recoloring them or even emphasizing them, which can make it easier to identify the most important items.

A well crafted filter can literally save hours of time, allowing you to spend that time doing the fun stuff instead of worrying about the tedious task of comparing items and deciding whether to keep something or leave it on the ground. Whether you choose to import a premade filter (all of our build guides include one) or make one from scratch, a good filter is a huge boost to both efficiency and quality of life for any player.