Loot hiding too quickly

Am using a loot filter (never sink) to try and reduce the quantity of useless loot that shows up, and although the filter does work items become hidden within about 5secs and I am often unable to pick them up before they disappear and I end up constantly having to use z or alt to find them again. Is there any way to prevent this from happening or increase the time taken before items are hidden?

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yea this isnt how item filters work.

if an item is filtered out by a loot filter, you *NEVER* see it. you dont see it for a couple seconds and then the filter hides it. you just never see it in the first place.

this is you pushing z way too often.

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Thror2k5 wrote:

you *NEVER* see it.

I'm 99% certain that this isn't true. It might be due to lag but I'm almost certain that I see the loot before it disappears. Edit: I might be thinking of when the Z key hides things instead of the filter.

Regardless of the reason, there is nothing the OP can do about it. The filter doesn't have any kind of timer in it.

I'm not sure how it works in parties. With short allocation the item is greyed out for a few seconds if it belongs to someone else. During that time does it use your filter or the other player's filter? Or does everything show until it's allocated and then the filter applies?

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harddaysnight wrote:

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Thror2k5 wrote:

you *NEVER* see it.

I'm 99% certain that this isn't true. It might be due to lag but I'm almost certain that I see the loot before it disappears.

Regardless of the reason, there is nothing the OP can do about it. The filter doesn't have any kind of timer in it.

I'm not sure how it works in parties. With short allocation the item is greyed out for a few seconds if it belongs to someone else. During that time does it use your filter or the other player's filter? Or does everything show until it's allocated and then the filter applies?

I don't play in groups, but at least for solo play, item filters does not show items just to then hide them. Items are either showed, or hidden, nothing in between.

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CrazylikE wrote:

Items are either showed, or hidden, nothing in between.

We cross posted. I edited my post when I realized I might be thinking of the Z key instead of the filter.

I'm not sure my issue/query is being understood.

With the game not set to always show items on ground and loot filter enabled, this first image shows an example of what I see when items first drop.
https://ibb.co/8cKkKfJ
But then within 5 secs or so the text disappears.

If I then later press the Z key, this is what I see.
https://ibb.co/R0yzWmp

So depending on whether Z is enabled/disabled I either see all loot that drops, or loot shown based on filter for 5 secs or so then nothing.

Is it normal for the text labels to disappear this quickly? And is there any way of changing this? If tons of loot drops I just end up having to show all the loot anyway and search through it to find the items I didn't get a chance to pick up before the labels disappeared.

no, it is NOT normal for text labels to disappear.

as i said earlier : when your loot filter shows an item, it is ALWAYS shown. loot doesnt hide after a certain amount of time.

Did some more trial and error with various settings since the issue is not normal, and changing the 'default item allocation' from short allocation (this was the default setting) to fixed resolved the issue.

Thanks for the clarity.