When do you start using the loot filter?

[Duder]

I'm getting to the point where I'm getting mostly crap yellow drops and they aren't worth much. I feel like I'm wasting time even looking at them, although a few of my equipped items are yellow.

[rufustfirefly42]

After you level a few chars and stash some money and leveling equipment, you filter whites and yellows out from the beginning, as there is no need for them. If you’re playing your first char, after enough greens drop to fill your gear slots, you can filter yellows out forever, they are not valuable enough to waste time gathering and selling and soon you’ll be showered in greens and above anyway.

[Duder]

Originally posted by rufustfirefly42:

After you level a few chars and stash some money and leveling equipment, you filter whites and yellows out from the beginning, as there is no need for them. If you’re playing your first char, after enough greens drop to fill your gear slots, you can filter yellows out forever, they are not valuable enough to waste time gathering and selling and soon you’ll be showered in greens and above anyway.

Sometimes I use a yellow or two, especially if it's got a +2 to a skill I use.

[tukkek]

When I'm almost entirely fitted with greens, I'll lootfilter yellows out and so on with higher tiers. In my first playthrough I only filtered everything below blue/epic at level 75 - which goes to show how relevant lower-tier items are well into late game. I'm around level 95 right now and still haven't filtered out blues, although I think I'm getting there.

[rufustfirefly42]

Yea, but with difficulty merits, xp potion vand about a minute of hunting notes, you get to around lvl 15 in seconds, so that’s the actual starting point of the game. By then no yellow can surpass a green in stats. And it’s irrelevant anyway, coz you have enough skill points to max a few skills and be overpowered for a good while.

[rufustfirefly42]

As for filtering blues and greens, I almost never do that (and definetly never for blues) coz I always burn through the bank with crafting/transmuting and need the money from selling. There are times when I want to have fun and increase the pace of the game, and then I filter out greens but keep MIs. But that’s for a limited time.

[gNuff!~©~gNom3™]

depends what you are after
yellows can be a good source of scrap, and iron in a pinch -if you aren't selling a bunch of blues and greens that is ofc
at lvl 1 filter out "common"/whites, i don't even bother to replace starter items with new found whites so that goes out the windows right away,
then usually by lvl 35 i filter out yellows completely as by then you can start to replace bunch of items with Faction vendor stuff if you need something -or you can just cycle merchnats inventory, which is pretty handy if a new green hasn't dropped
thing is, greens can have "Yellow" affixes too and still be green as long as it's either a Monster Infriquent, or the other affix is rare, then it still displays as green/rare drops. And usually you be fine as long as 1 of the 2 affixes are useful, and even if it's a rare that drops with only the magic/yellow affix part that's beneficial then that's still fine/a decent chance compared to lucking out and getting a double yellow/magic affix item to drop that might "only" be a "smidge" better anyway
So if you start to use vendor if you haven't found items for some lvls, then you can easily filter out yellows early unless you want stuff to sell or blow up (usually you don't even need to dismantle it as you'll be getting tons of blues to blow up instead)
^no point in filter out yellows tho if you don't mind the "cluttered" loot screen/drops and if you just sell everything anyway

[kekkuli]

I'd filter yellows after act 1, or at the least after act 2. You can get enough money by selling all greens and up.

[Azunai]

whites get filtered very early. level 2 or 3 or so. around that time i have an items in most slots anyway (other than shoulders and medals that show up later)

yellows get filtered out once greens become more common.

that setting remains until character is geared and no longer cares about greens. at that point i only show blues, purples and double rares and MIs. but i usually don't bother picking up greens at that point anyway, so i probably might as well hide them altogether.

[frdnwsm]

I have a bit of a different philosophy. I keep loot filter set to show everything yellow and above. There are a LOT of yellow drops, and I sell them all. It's a significant source of cash; right now at level 50 my guy has 600,000 bits, much of it from selling off yellow gear items.

[kekkuli]

Originally posted by frdnwsm:

I have a bit of a different philosophy. I keep loot filter set to show everything yellow and above. There are a LOT of yellow drops, and I sell them all. It's a significant source of cash; right now at level 50 my guy has 600,000 bits, much of it from selling off yellow gear items.

And i have yet different philospohy; without all that time spent on selling and looting the yellows, you would already be at higher level and probably have same amount if not more money :p

[Azunai]

don't think picking up yellows for selling is worth the hassle. vendors may occasionally have some nice items that cost a big chunk of money. and you need some for endgame crafting. other than that you don't even need money all that much. i never had to farm money on any toon and my level 100's usually end up with 1-2 millions without ever picking up anything just for sale.

you only really need A LOT of money to gamble for crafted greens with specific rare affixes. which you really don't have to do to finish the game - just as an "icing on the cake" final optimization for a character that was already fully capable of just about anything anyway.

[Zantai]

Personally I start using it immediately with the damage types I'm looking for and I gradually filter out whites/yellows as my gear progresses, so that I can fill empty gear slots asap.

[tukkek]

I like not using the "advanced" filters, especially early on, as that lets me adapt and improvise my builds depending on what I get and I like theorycrafting. I do understand that generally ends up being a trade-off between short-term and long-term efficiency though but GD is pretty generous with respecs and loot so it's nothing I can't fix at endgame if I end up with a frankenstein build.

[frdnwsm]

>>"Without all that time spent on selling and looting the yellows, you would already be at higher level and probably have same amount if not more money :p"<<

Are you serious? I have 3 loot screens on my character; I can carry a fair amount. I may have to make exactly one trip to sell during a mission, which takes less than 5 minutes. There is NO significant loss of leveling time there. Additionally, I have often finished a mission from the bounty table by that time, and need to go back anyway to grab a new one.

[kekkuli]

I'm very serious and you'd be surprised to see how much faster you can go the less you loot.