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Loot is a crucial part of any ARPG,Last Epochbeing no exception. A large portion of your character’s power comes from item affixes and Unique items, so it’s critical that you pick up the right items for your build.
Fortunately, Last Epoch has a fantastic loot filter system that allows you to hide or recolor items on the ground. Highlight crucial gear upgrades with a unique color, hide item bases you don’t care about, and create rules that dynamically alter your loot filter based on your loot filter. All of this and more can be done in-game in a couple of minutes.
Why You Should Use Loot Filters In Last Epoch
Last Epoch allows you to filter items through its in-game loot filter system.A loot filter allows you to hide unwanted items while highlighting items you care about.All items in Last Epoch drop identified, so you can create loot filters that filter items based on affix types, stat tiers, and much more. For example, if you’re playing a lightning-focused build and only want to see lightning items, you can create a loot filter that does just that.
As you play Last Epoch, enemies will begin to drop too much loot for you to carry. You’ll want to narrow down those item drops to a select few items with specific item bases, affixes, or rarity types. A loot filter lets you do just that.You can hide items that don’t benefit your character, recolor items your build needs, or both.You can even create multiple loot filters to swap between, useful if you play multiple characters.
Creating A Loot Filter
Creating a loot filter is incredibly easy and can be done entirely in-game.From the Escape menu, select “Settings” and scroll down to the “Interface” section.You’ll see a loot filter header that allows you to manage your loot filters. Select the “Manage Loot Filters” button (or press Shift + F) to open the loot filter menu. From here, you’re able to choose to either import a community loot filter or create your own. For this section, let’s create a loot filter together.
When playing without a loot filter, your screen will sometimes look like this. A mess of item names and rarity colors will cover your screen, making it difficult to parse what’s worth grabbing. We can remove most of this bloat bycreating loot filter rules.Go ahead and add a rule to your loot filter. This will open a new menu with three options:
Condition is the most important setting. you may pick the exact types of gear you want to view or hide from your filter. For example, let’s say you’re a Mage that wants to build around lightning damage. We only want to see items that have lightning modifiers, so let’s add a modifier that shows items with the Damage Type: Lightning affix.
Adding this didn’t actually change anything, and that’s because we don’t have any conditions that hide items. In order for a loot filter to be effective, we need to hide things as well.Loot filters use a hierarchy system when displaying items. The higher the rule is on your filter, the higher priority it has.For example, let’s create a rule that hides every single item in the game.
When you first create the rule, all items will be hidden, but that’s because the rule is at the top of your filter.Once you move your hidden items to the bottom of the filter, visible conditions will start to take priorityand will now appear on your HUD. As you can see, we significantly cut down on the number of items on our screen with only two rules. You can create up to 75 rules for a given loot filter, and each rule can be as complex as you want.
Most loot filters hide all Normal, Magic, and Rare items as a baseline. Use this as your lowest rule on your loot filter, then add conditions to display items with base types or affixes your build needs.
These rules can also be toggled dynamically as you level. For example, let’s say that you want to create a loot filter that works while leveling. You can use theCharacter Level Dependencytoggle to set a level range for, say, common items. If you set the range floor to Level 5, the rule will kick in the second your character reaches Level 5, hiding all common items you find for the rest of your playthrough.
Community Loot Filters
Unlike other ARPGs likePath of Exile,community loot filters are by no means required in Last Epoch. you’re able to create your own loot filter in a couple of minutes and tweak it as needed.With that said, if you aren’t sure which affixes are worth chasing for your build, you can always use a community member’s loot filter as a base.
Quite a few loot filters can be found onLastEpochTools, a community website that lets you theorycraft builds and share lootfilters with others. You can also find loot filters on the Last Epoch forums, most of which have Pastebin links you can import in-game. Some great base lootfilters include:
