Path of Exile 2: How to use a Loot Filter

If you want to go far in Path of Exile 2, you’re going to want a Loot Filter. It won’t matter much to you in the early hours. However, deeper into the game, when you’re doing Cruel difficulty, and grinding through maps for crafting mats and powerful gear, you’re going to want to separate the great from the mediocre. Thankfully, Loot Filters are still very much in the game.

There aren’t as many made, as of this writing, but more will no doubt be created by the community as time goes on. You can make your own, or you can download one, but it’s so much easier to find one that’s already been set up. While Diablo 4 may be struggling to add Loot Filters, Path of Exile 2 has access to it, simply if you have the time, patience, or ability to Google.

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How to set up a Loot Filter in Path of Exile 2

Thankfully, it’s incredibly easy to set up a Loot Filter in Path of Exile 2. We’re just here to show you how to find and use one — creating one on your own is a far more technical topic. To use a Loot Filter, you must first possess the file you need to put into your game folder.

It's easy enough to set up a loot filter on PC (Image via Grinding Gear Games)

We recommend the following:

• NeverSink’s Lite Filter
• Pecham’s Loot Filter
• Cyberion’s NeverSink-inspired Loot Filter

If you’re like me, have several hard drives, and can’t remember what game is where, Path of Exile 2 has you covered. Just open the game, and enter the Options menu. Click the Game Tab, and under General, where it says Loot Filter, click the Folder Icon on the right.

This opens the folder on your PC where your Loot Filters can go in Path of Exile 2. Just copy-paste, or drag and drop the file into that folder, and you’re done! You don’t even have to log out of the game. Click the drop-down menu for Loot Filter in the options, and you can select your brand-new Loot Filter.

Unfortunately, they only appear to be functioning for PC players, at the time of writing. It will take time to add it for consoles, but it will likely be a future update. However, those players will still need to use a web browser to set it up. It will almost certainly be much easier for those console players to use an established Loot Filter (EG: NeverSink’s) to make things easier.

It's much easier to see the important things with a Loot Filter (Image via Grinding Gear Games forums)

The point of a Loot Filter in PoE 2 is to highlight more valuable gear, so you know what to pick up and what to not. You can do an incredible amount of customization in these, to make your needs clear, easing looting for you throughout the gameplay.

They’re almost always color-coded, with some adding sound effects to make it even clearer. Once Path of Exile 2 has been around for a bit longer, players will no doubt have made dozens of loot filters — you will be able to search a Loot Filter for your specific class, for instance, Frost Sorceress, and odds are high that someone will have made one. Once console Loot Filters are opened up, we’ll update this accordingly.

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Check out our other Path of Exile 2 guides and features

• Path of Exile 2: Complete Trial of The Sekhemas guide
• Path of Exile 2: All Classes and Ascensions available in Early Access
• Path of Exile 2: Stormweaver Ascendancy Guide