I know there is an “advanced search” on grimtools, but it is very clunky and not really helpful,
thanks to the thousands of items and possible skill and attribute/bonus combinations, it is literally impossible to find anything useful with it short of hand-sifting hundreds of results again and again…
I am speaking of simple things like looking for any 2 or 3 skill bonuses out of a given set of skills that’d be useful,
in grimtools advanced search, you can search for multiple skill bonuses, but you are hard limited to a strict “and” conjunction, which means you’d had to go through every possible combination of skills you are interested in, which is very impractical, and that’s not even considering the search including things other than skill bonuses.
Like, if I’m trying to find items that have a reasonable combination of +skills that may be useful to me.
To be more specific…
mostly looking for “farmable” or “faction gear” but that’s not always a hard requirement and already an option in search, so that point is not really relevant, just noting for completeness
items that have a bonus to at least 2 or 3 skills out of a given pool of skills that I deem useful for a build, which can be quite a few depending on the build
from what I see, that is not possible in grimtools as you can not even put an “or” in between multiple skill bonuses, not to even speak of saying “at least 2 of these”
[edit:] sorry for the late reply, just got back from vacation
The faction list, MI’s (greens), or blueprints can be a great place to start for convenient and guaranteed gear. I usually start from the skill itself or from the item slot in the calc.
Wildcards like -*aether res can go a long way. Using a browser-based search (Ctrl+F) as a secondary filter usually narrows it down to only a few results. Try to pick the most exclusive attributes first.
For example: Physical Resistance can be relatively rare on boot and pants. Use a secondary filter for Entrapment Resistance to have about two pairs of pants and dozen boots to sift through. Compare this to searching for Entrapment Resistance then Physical Res (a much smaller list).
After going to the GT discord and asking there, I was told that it is possible to search by regex on GT and that it is explained on the forums,
found this so far which looks promising: [GrimTools] Item Database - #211 by Dammitt
[edit]: yes, there is a regex, but it’s very impractical for this use case (like: at least 2 of a certain pool of skill bonuses), but I’ll definitely not be mad if anyone manages to prove me wrong on this one
Not sure if this would help, for example if I’m searching for level 94 item that got +skill to markovian advantage and reaping strike, I would type this on the search bar:
yes I see that, the regex I tried are a little more complex and may take several minutes to complete on my last gen i7,
GT already provides simple search like this, you just need to open “advanced search” and define 2 skills and a lvl range, that’s not what I’m looking for though
defining a regex to get me like 2 or 3 out of ~10 skills is not just time consuming, there is also no way to distinguish between actual skill bonus on the item and the set bonus,
there is also no way to distinguish the “item source” like if it’s farmable, faction gear, or just random loot as you can’t use regex in combo with the “advanced search”
[edit:] plus the downloadable offline version of GT comes with a very unfortunate data format, so that’s not simply imported into a proper database or used as is (but if you happen to know a way to do that, let me know! )
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