How to Get Started with FilterBlade for Path of Exile: Download, Customize, and Apply a Loot Filter

FilterBlade is a web-based customizer for NeverSink's loot filter that runs in your browser at filterblade.xyz. You use it to pick a strictness level, optionally auto-adjust the filter to your in-game character, fine-tune colors and sounds, then export the result to Path of Exile either by downloading a filter file or syncing it to your PoE profile. It supports both Path of Exile 1 and Path of Exile 2, and it's aimed at beginners and veterans alike — the default flow works without touching the advanced tools.

What you need before starting

• A browser and access to filterblade.xyz.
• Path of Exile (or Path of Exile 2) installed, if you plan to apply the filter in-game.
• A rough idea of how much loot you want to see. This is what the strictness setting controls.

You don't need an account on FilterBlade to generate a filter, and the site doesn't gate the core workflow behind a login based on the available page content.

Step 1: Let the filter load

When the page opens, FilterBlade checks for a filter to load and shows a "Please wait..." state. Two things can happen here:

• Load Auto-Save? — if you've used the site before, it offers to restore your auto-saved changes. Choose Okay to keep them, or No, thanks to start fresh. If you want to delete the auto-saved changes entirely, use Reset filter.
• Filter loaded via sharing link — if you arrived from a shared link, the filter loads with those settings already applied.

There may also be a Sound files download prompt. Accept it if you want the filter's audio cues to work as intended.

Step 2: Set strictness

Strictness controls how many items the filter shows. A higher strictness hides more low-value drops; a lower one shows more. The page lists Semi-Strict as an example option.

Pick based on how you play:

You can change this later, so it isn't a permanent decision.

Step 3: Optionally auto-adjust to your build

Auto-Adjust for build generates a filter specific to your in-game character. Use this if you want the filter tuned to what your character actually needs rather than a generic profile. If you'd rather keep a general-purpose filter, skip it.

Step 4: Customize (only as much as you want)

The Customize filter area lets you safely fine-tune the entire filter in detail. Several tools sit here, and most users only need the first one or two:

• Style Editor / Decorators — change the recurring colors and sounds of the filter. A color change here affects every entry using that color. Items with the default appearance won't appear in this list and can't be changed here.
• Global One-Click Edits — quick edits that apply to the whole filter, but with less priority than your other changes (they're applied before them).
• Modules — reusable building blocks. If several of your filters share common changes, keep those changes in a module and reuse it. You can also use other people's modules from the Overview tab.
• Review changes — visualize every single change you've made in the currently active filter. Useful before exporting.
• Filter Line Translator — for day-to-day filter editing: use the appearance editor to find the right colors, then copy/paste the generated code into your filter.

There's also a Game mode selector (the page shows Softcore as an example) and a User-created Modules section.

The advanced tools (Legacy Global Color & Sound Editors, Filter Structure, Local Filter Upload) are explicitly aimed at experienced FilterBlade users, developers, and filter authors. The site warns that uploading a local filter "severely limits the functionality on FilterBlade" and to expect bugs — you can still test it in the loot simulator and edit it via the structure screen, but the custom appearance editor won't work reliably. Skip these unless you know you need them.

Step 5: Preview before you commit

Use the Loot Generator and Item Builder to see how items will actually look:

• Import Item from PoE — pull in a real item.
• Item Builder — construct an item to test.
• Generate loot / Generate valuable loot — produce sample drops.
• Zone Level — set the level context for the generated loot.
• Change loot pile background image — adjust the preview backdrop.

Click an item in the preview to edit it. This is the cheapest way to catch a color or sound choice you don't actually like before it's live in-game.

Step 6: Export the filter to PoE

Export filter to PoE gives you two routes:

1. Download the filter — get the filter file and place it in your Path of Exile filters folder.
2. Sync it to your PoE profile — push it directly to your profile so the game picks it up.

Both are offered from the same export area; pick whichever fits how you manage your game files.

Common snags

• Auto-save prompt confusion — choosing "No, thanks" doesn't delete your saved changes, it just doesn't load them. Use Reset filter if you actually want them gone.
• Color changes not appearing where expected — the Style Editor only lists items that don't use the default appearance. Default-appearance items can't be changed there.
• One-Click Edits getting overridden — they apply before your other changes, so a later manual edit wins. If a global edit seems ignored, that's why.
• Uploaded local filters behaving oddly — expected. Uploading a local filter disables much of FilterBlade's functionality by design.
• Missing sounds — if you skipped the sound files download prompt, audio cues won't play as intended.

A sensible first pass

Load the filter, accept the sound files, pick Semi-Strict, skip auto-adjust unless you want a build-specific filter, preview a few generated drops in the loot simulator, then export via download or profile sync. Come back and use the Style Editor or Modules once you know which specific drops you want to stand out.