The entire loot system needs refining from garbage affixes that need to be removed entirely to ranges for some affixes being ridiculously large. All of that said the quickest bandaid fix for all of it is definitely a robust loot filter it is unreasonable to expect the average joe to know all the various combinations of affixes on all the different items types that work with all the popular builds and to decipher each and every drop in a game that vomits loot at you the way this game does especially considering any single one of those drops could be a gg 9.9 billion item. The fatigue that sets in from speed reading affixes for 20% of your gaming sessions ultimately leads to player burnout i.e. quit the game or quit looking at gear.
More like maybe 2%.
A couple of minutes an hour to dismantle/sell/extract or bank your collected loot, why would you need to spend more time?
You spend 5-10 minutes farming 4 duriel runs or a few blood harvests then you have an inventory full of items so let’s say your speedy gonzalez and can junk an item in 2 seconds on avg which is generous considering how many freaking 2 out of 4s this game likes to make you double/triple check so that’s easily a minute to go through an inventory full of loot if your filling your inventory as fast as I usually do then that’s 1 minute of filtering for every 7.5 minutes of gameplay. So 13-15% of my time is spent looking at gear now let’s add in the times where you find something like an aspect you want or something you want to use or sell and voila 20% of the gaming is actually not gaming. This varies greatly from player to player but I know a bunch of folks that have the same take/experience as myself so it’s not isolated.
I like the idea of a loot filter. For those that want to use it, have at it. For those that don’t want to use it, don’t use it. win/win for everyone. Blizzard make it so.
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Then you can easily adapt to ignore a loot filter when it gets implemented instead of whining on the boards how everyone should play like you want.
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a loot filter is a must
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While modern conveniences can sometimes erase some of the pleasure derived from repetitive or simplistic tasks in games, organizing your loot in a loot based game is not one of those things. And don’t even get me started on the atrocious affixes in this game—that issue should’ve been fixed yesterday. Again, bad itemization and item management in a loot game is not forgivable. You sound like someone who wants to stick to rotary phones instead of cell phones and you’re more than welcome to do so, but don’t keep the rest of us in the last century, thanks. You’re advocating for pointless time wasting.
I just hit 97 on eternal but my progress stoped, only lvl growing up. I just dont pickup items from the ground, cause i dont want lose my casual time on reading tons of affixes. Just want smash some mobs. Yea loot filter is a must, and blizzard working on it. But i am afraid when they implement it to the game it will be as useless like this dmg dummy. Without crucial funcionalities.
I just dont think the is game “needs” it or is a “must. That is all.
I feel there are more important things to do first.
I truly understand what people are saying though. Reading gear is not for everyone. I personally don’t mind doing it. Why i said above i will probably just turn it off when it happens.