PoE2 feature preview: new basetype tiering system

I want to provide you guys with an update on my PoE2 filter + filterblade work.

This may sounds surprising but tiering normal, magic and rare bases was often one of the trickiest parts of making a good filter in PoE1.

In PoE1: I've reworked the system countless times and there was always something to be unhappy about. There's just so many dimensions and playergroups to consider.

Fortunately: after several days of research, prototyping and multiple iterations, I've come up with a novel approach for PoE2 that improves on pretty much all aspects of the system!

The big innovation

Let's spill the beans.

• The filter will come with 2 different set of tiering - a meta/economy based one and a neutral one

  • Economy: "more bows and ev gear, because these are more popular"

  • Neutral: "maces get the same chances as bows"

  • FilterBlade will be able to mix and match those 2 tierlists!

• On FilterBlade you'll be able to select your build preferences (might take 1-2 month to get this feature enabled):

  • Your class, your weapons, your armour types, some preferences

  • All tierlists (leveling, endgame, crafting) will be auto-adjusted based on your choices.

  • FilterBlade can mix and match the 2 tierlists:

    • Example: show the best quarterstaves and ES and ES/EV armours for your monk, but for the OTHER bases, you only want to see the economically viable ones

    • You can decide to see 2-3 weapon types at once

    • You can tier the WHOLE list using meta-adjusted tiering

    • You can also decide to hide anything irrelevant to your class/build

• Afterwards you can still head to customize and adjust everything else.

Technical Details

I won't write any drawn out explanations, instead I'll just focus on describing the highlights:

• A single large tierlist ( a 'basetype matrix' ) is shared across Rare / Magic / Normal bases

• 4 tiers:

  • Tier 1: Best bases, usually highest level bases (typically best 'expert' bases)

  • Tier 2+3: Sub-ideal intermediate bases (usually less ideal expert bases)

  • Tier 4/Untiered: Early endgame bases, only relevant during the first map tiers

• The 4 tiers are reused across around 20 rules, to enable a dynamic setup that scales with arealevel, itemlevel and strictness

• By default (think: github) the filter will provide a NON-meta view on bases

• A whole bunch of decorator rules to add extra highlight to favored bases

• Ability to select interesting armor types.

What is the overall status of development?

I expect the new filter itself to be available in 1 week or less. It'll feature the new tiering already! Here are the remaining tasks:

• (DONE) Programming adjustments to support 2 games

• (DONE) Programming adjustments to support PoE2 features

• (DONE) Data requirements and basetype data for PoE2

• (DONE) Base Filter Structure

• (DONE) Rare/Crafting base tiering

• (DONE) Tiering of all currencylike items

• (DONE) Leveling section

• (WIP) Unique tiering

• (WIP) Base Style

• (OPEN) Strictness gradient

• (OPEN) Testing

• (OPEN) Publishing

When is it coming?

I expect filterblade to take around 2-2.5 weeks.

I expect the quick-customize feature mentioned above to take ~1-1.5 month to be online.

Thanks for reading

~NeverSink