Diablo 4\u2019s newest item reworks haven\u2019t removed the need for a loot filter Blizzard EntertainmentThe mind-boggling amount of loot available in Diablo 4 Season 5\u2019s Infernal Hordes has players calling for a loot filter in the game once more. Despite some frustrating bugs trying to dampen things, Diablo 4 Season 5 has been a hit with players. The newly introduced Infernal Hordes have become the preferred endgame grind and it\u2019s not hard to see why. Farm enough Burning Aether during your run and you can acquire absurd amounts of Gold which has done a lot to fix one of players\u2019 biggest issues with Season 4. Of course, with numerous Spoils of Hell to spend that Burning Aether on, you can pick up an equally insane amount of gear. In a loot-driven game like Diablo 4, you\u2019d think that wouldn\u2019t be an issue, but the introduction of Greater Affixes in Season 4 makes a lot of gear fundamentally useless for endgame players. When you can force more than 100 drops from a single chest in an Infernal Horde, the need for a loot filter becomes very apparent. Reddit user meepinz showed an example of the ridiculous levels of loot you can get by spending a large amount of Burning Aether on gear chests in a T8 Infernal Horde. While Diablo 4 has visual cues and tooltips for Greater Affix drops, the issue comes when a large amount of gear drops and the game can\u2019t keep up. \u201cIf I\u2019d left all of these items in the area where the box is, you would only see a quarter of the tooltips as they just stop loading\/displaying,\u201d meepins explained. \u201cThis is a huge pain point when you\u2019re only looking for GA (Greater Affix) items, and no longer need salvaging materials because the GA item tooltips simply won\u2019t display due to clutter.\u201d Item drops of this magnitude are also especially frustrating for console players who don\u2019t have the precision of PC\u2019s point-and-click meaning they are at the mercy of Diablo 4\u2019s rarity prioritization. \u201cIf a summoning mat drops in the middle of that, guess I\u2019m picking up every Legendary and yellow until I can get lucky to grab the Malignant Heart,\u201d one player complained. Players have been requesting a loot filter in Diablo 4 since the game\u2019s launch but the team behind the game explained that implementing one is tougher than it sounds. Game Director Joe Shely broke down the difficulty of even minor changes to the game in an interview with PC Gamer. \u201cEvery perceivably simple decision has some kind of crazy cause and effect, ripple effect across the whole game,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes there\u2019s low-hanging fruit and it goes pretty quickly\u2014and sometimes it\u2019s like, wow, that change is actually 120 changes.\u201d Now that Blizzard has finally completed the itemization overhaul, however, we could be closer to the coveted Diablo 4 loot filter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Diablo 4\u2019s newest item reworks haven\u2019t removed the need for a loot filter Blizzard EntertainmentThe mind-boggling amount of loot available in Diablo 4 Season 5\u2019s Infernal Hordes has players calling for a loot filter in the game once more. Despite some frustrating bugs trying to dampen things, Diablo 4 Season 5 has been a hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}