Path of Exile 2: How to get loot filter on consoles

A loot filter is essential in keeping your screen clutter-free (Image via Grinding Gear Games | YouTube/@PathofEvening)

The Path of Exile 2 experience is about to improve with the arrival of the highly anticipated 0.1.1 patch. It will finally grant proper loot-filter support to the console playerbase. A solid loot filter is part of a balanced Path of Exile experience, and now, console users get to reap the benefits of this quality-of-life enhancing tool.

Path of Exile practically showers players with loot to give them a fighting chance against RNG. However, this method of loot generation is extremely taxing on the game client and the system and has caused the game to crash often.

A loot filter makes the gameplay loop smoother by sorting out your loot based on potential worth and highlighting the important items.

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The loot filter for console players is one of the many changes coming in Path of Exile 2 patch 0.1.1

To enable a loot filter on your console, log in to your Path of Exile account via the original Path of Exile website. Once you're logged in, click on your account name, which will show up as "Logged in as *your account name*," in the top-left corner of your screen.

This page will control all of your connections (Image via Grinding Gear Games)

Then, click on Manage Account to find the Secondary Login section. This page features the Connect option for both Sony and Microsoft accounts, among other platforms. Once your console account is connected, you can move on to the next step of the process.

To set up loot filters on the console, click on your account name in the top-left corner. After that, click on the "Item Filters" tab on the bottom right-hand side of the screen. On the Item Filter page, click on the Item Filter Ladder section, which will show you the popular item filters used by the community.

Once on the ladder page, navigate to the right-hand side and select PoE2 on the Game Type drop-down section, and you're done. Now you can peruse the multitude of loot filters created by community members and choose one based on your needs. For simplicity's sake, however, we suggest using the filters by the author NeverSink#3349.

The community will cover all your needs (Image via Grinding Gear Games)

Fortunately, these steps are on the client side, so fire up Path of Exile 2 on your console. Once in-game, navigate to the Options tab and then the Game tab where you'll see the "Item Filter" section at the top.

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Browsing this drop-down section will show you all the loot filters you've selected on the website. So go ahead and finalize your preferred loot filter and then click on Save. That's it.

If you're a new player, we suggest taking the Semi-Strict filter from NeverSink. It will weed out the bad items and highlight high-value ones like maps and currencies, with sound effects indicating rarer drops.

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Edited by Sijo Samuel Paul