What I like/works well:
1st column of the filter is an easy and effective way to control loot level. Works fine with the exception of “MI” and “rare” having that weird overlap, so you can’t filter out “double magic affix” MIs because they are still “rare”.
But for having a few simple checkmarks that are easy to figure out/explain, they work well.
What I dislike:
The other 3 columns do not reflect how you collect gear in GD, or why you collect it.
3 reasons to gather gear:
- For the character you are playing right now
- For (several) other alt character(s)
- For selling greens for cash
Most of the time, for me, all three of those modes are going at the same time.
Often I am happy to find something that I don’t even have a character for, yet, as it gives me a reason to make one.
For those purposes, selecting by item type or damage type is entirely pointless. If I select anything there, it will filter out most of the best items I could find.
Formidable Pants of Vitality? Dream item, but I’d never see it, if I change any setting in column 2 or 3.
4th column leaves the biggest question mark, because the stats are so generic, they’ll just show up on pretty much any rare item.
Simply sorting/filtering by any of the keywords on an item will never be sufficient.
On the topic of selling greens:
In PoE and (as far as I understand) in Last Epoch, you can filter much more strictly, because selling items is mostly pointless. You only want to pick up and vendor/scrap certain types of items you need for crafting.
So filtering out most of the trash is desirable, even if it means you could miss a few good items.
In GD, to craft properly, you need to pick-up and vendor all of the trash.
Selling greens is still by far your best source of iron. Outside of SR, the pure iron bits drops are pitiful, so you actually want to fill you inventory with garbage and carry it to the vendor.
So that would have to be addressed first, imo, before any kind of filter would actually make sense.
Assuming I’d no longer want to pick up green non-MI junk:
For farming MIs, there are too many combinations of good prefix and suffix for too many items to just filter them sensibly with a simple <OR> .
Ideally it would be some type of regex that can be adjusted via an XML file, so the community can adjust it to individual needs and make tools to edit it comfortably.