Hero Siege Season 10 Loot Filter Guide: Hide Junk and Highlight Better Gear

If you are starting Hero Siege Season 10, one of the first things you should set up is your Loot Filter. Once the game starts throwing piles of equipment onto the ground, checking every item manually becomes a huge waste of time.

A properly configured filter keeps useful drops visible, highlights gear worth checking, and removes items that you already know you will never use. The whole process only takes a few minutes once you understand what each option does.

How to Open the Loot Filter

Open the menu with ESC and select the filter icon. The filter window contains several related settings, so it is important not to confuse the different functions.

The Loot Filter decides which items appear on the ground. The Highlight Filter makes items that are already visible easier to spot and can also mark matching drops on the minimap. They work together, but they are not the same thing.

Start by keeping the filter fairly open while leveling. You do not want to hide a potential upgrade simply because your character is still using basic equipment.

Start With Your Build

Your filter should match the character you are actually playing.

Physical attackers generally want to pay attention to enhanced damage, flat physical damage, and attack speed. Casters should focus more on +skill effects, elemental or skill damage, and cast rate. Summoners have their own priorities, including summon-related affixes.

Defensive stats should not be ignored either. Life, resistances, faster hit recovery, and other defensive bonuses can make a major difference while progressing through the campaign.

The best approach is simple: highlight stats that directly improve your build instead of trying to highlight everything.

Use Socket Filtering While Leveling

Socketed equipment is worth keeping visible early because it can provide useful bases for Runewords.

Socket filters are part of the Highlight Filter and can help you notice potential helmet, weapon, shield, armor, and boot bases. This is particularly useful during leveling and early Hell progression.

Later, once your filter is already showing only equipment with desirable affixes, you can make socket filtering much stricter.

When to Hide More Items

Do not use an aggressive endgame filter on a new character.

During Normal difficulty, keep a wider selection of equipment visible. As you move into Nightmare, you can start removing lower-tier items and raise the minimum affix requirements.

A common S10 approach is to keep the same useful affixes but increase the required quality. Nightmare filters can be moved toward B-tier or better affixes, while early Hell setups can become more selective with A-tier bases.

This gradually cleans up your screen without making the filter too restrictive.

A Simple Three-Stage Setup

For beginners, think about the filter in three stages:

Normal: Keep most potentially useful upgrades visible.

Nightmare: Remove weaker item tiers and require better affix tiers.

Hell: Focus heavily on high-quality bases and build-specific affixes.

Do not rush to an endgame filter. If you hide too much too early, you may miss upgrades that are still valuable for your current character.

Keep Valuable Drops Easy to Notice

Once the basic hiding rules are finished, spend some time configuring highlights. Strong class-specific affixes, useful defensive rolls, socketed bases, and important equipment upgrades should be easy to recognize when you are moving quickly through a map.

This becomes especially important when farming for Hero Siege Gold, because the goal is not to stop and inspect every piece of equipment. A clean filter lets you spend more time killing monsters and less time sorting through worthless drops.

Importing a Filter

You can also import a premade filter instead of building everything manually. Open the Filter menu, choose Import, and paste the actual filter data. If a guide provides filter data through a hosting site, paste the data itself rather than simply pasting the webpage address.

Premade filters are useful starting points, but you should still adjust them for your own build and progression stage

The best Loot Filter is not necessarily the strictest one.

Start with a broad setup, highlight the stats your build needs, keep socketed bases visible while they are useful, and gradually remove weaker drops as your equipment improves.

Season 10 also introduced changes to the Tarethiel Market filter, but that trading filter is separate from the normal Loot and Highlight Filters.

If you eventually plan to buy Hero Siege Items, understanding the filter is still useful because it helps you recognize which drops are worth keeping, selling, or comparing against your current gear.

After a few adjustments, your maps should look noticeably cleaner. You will see fewer useless items, spot upgrades faster, and spend far less time stopping after every pack of enemies. That is exactly what a good Hero Siege Loot Filter should do.