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Best Diablo 4 Loot Filter for Paladin: How to Build and Tune One

Updated 9 October 2026 · Season 14

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The best Diablo 4 loot filter for a Paladin is one built around your actual build: it shows the item types and affixes that build uses, recolors real upgrades and tradeable drops so they stand out, and hides the low-rarity clutter you never pick up. A filter holds up to 25 rules, so a good Paladin filter spends them on what you need rather than trying to catch everything. If you want a head start, grab a shared code from /loot-filters, import it, then adjust a few rules to match your gear.

Why a Paladin needs its own filter

The Paladin arrived with Lord of Hatred, alongside the Warlock, bringing Diablo 4 to 8 classes. Because the class is newer, plenty of players are still settling on builds, and borrowing a filter from another class rarely works well. A filter written for a different class highlights item types and affixes a Paladin ignores, and it can hide the ones you actually want.

The goal is simple. When you glance at the ground after a big pull, anything worth stopping for should be colored, and everything else should be quiet or gone. If you still find yourself hovering over every drop to read it, your filter is not doing its job.

A few principles that hold for any Paladin build:

• Build the filter around one build at a time. A filter that tries to serve every Paladin setup ends up serving none.
• Use color to mean something consistent. One color for upgrades, one for trade value, one for crafting or salvage targets.
• Hide aggressively only once you know what your build needs. Early on, a hidden upgrade costs more than a little clutter.

Importing and activating a filter on PC

If you have a code from /loot-filters or a friend, setup takes a minute:

1. Open Options > Gameplay and enable the Loot Filter shortcut.
2. Open the Game Menu and choose Loot Filter.
3. Select Import and paste the export code.
4. Name the filter something you will recognize, like the build it is for.
5. Set it as your active filter.

Only one filter is active at a time, so if you keep separate filters for leveling and endgame, or for two different Paladin builds, remember to switch the active one when you change what you are doing. Copying a code from a filter page uses the copy button; the download button saves it if you want to keep a backup.

For a full walkthrough of the menu itself, see our guide on how to use loot filters in Diablo 4.

How to spend your 25 rules

Twenty-five rules sounds like a lot until you start writing them. The trick is to give each rule a clear job. Here is a layout that works for most Paladin builds:

That covers the core in well under 25 rules, which leaves room for build-specific tweaks. Use the spare rules for whatever matters most to your particular build, so the drops you care about most get their own color.

Two habits keep a filter readable. First, limit yourself to a small set of colors. If every rule has its own color, nothing stands out. Second, name each rule clearly. When you come back to it later, "Upgrade: legendary, build slots" is much easier to edit than "Rule 7".

Leveling versus endgame

Your filter should change as your Paladin does.

While leveling, keep it loose. You are replacing gear constantly, almost anything with the right affixes is an upgrade, and hiding too much will slow you down more than clutter will. A leveling filter can be mostly Recolor rules, with Hide reserved for the lowest-rarity items once you no longer need them.

In the endgame, tighten up. By then you know which slots still need work and which are done. Hide rules carry more of the load, upgrade colors apply only to slots you are still chasing, and rares that matched your build early on may no longer be worth showing at all.

A good routine is to revisit the filter whenever you finish a slot. If a piece is effectively done, drop or narrow the rule that was watching for it and spend that rule somewhere else. Keeping a backup of your leveling filter's code means you can import it again later instead of writing it from scratch.

Don't filter out your trade income

The easiest mistake with an aggressive filter is hiding things that are worthless to you but valuable to other players. A Paladin filter tuned only for Paladin gear will quietly throw away drops that other classes would pay gold for.

Keep these visible even if your build never uses them:

• Charms and Seals. Both are tradeable, so give them their own color.
• Uniques for other classes. With 8 classes, a lot of what drops is meant for someone else. These are among the most common things worth listing.
• Strong rolls on gear your class can't use. A broad Hide rule on item types can catch these, so check what it removes before relying on it.

Mythic Uniques are account-bound and cannot be traded, so treat them purely as personal upgrades. They should still stand out in your filter, but they are not trade stock.

When you are not sure whether a drop is worth keeping, /prices is a value reference for Diablo 4 items: what each item is, whether it trades, and what drives its value. Use it to decide whether a drop deserves a trade color in your filter.

If you want to list what you find, the trade board on Diablo Marketplace handles in-game trades. Every trader is a Battle.net-verified BattleTag, and the trade itself happens in-game. Buying or selling items or gold for real money breaks Blizzard's terms of use and can get an account actioned, so keep every deal to gold and items.

Console players

Consoles cannot paste filter codes, so you rebuild the rules by hand. That sounds tedious, but it is manageable if you work from a list.

Every filter page on /loot-filters shows the decoded rule list: each rule's name, whether it is Show, Hide or Recolor, and its color. Open the page on your phone or a second screen and go down the list, creating each rule in the same order with the same mode and color. When you finish, compare your rule count against the page to make sure you didn't skip one.

Since rebuilding takes effort, console players get the most from picking a filter that already fits their build closely, then changing only a few rules. If you are choosing between several Paladin filters, read the rule lists first and pick the one whose Hide rules match how you play. For more on the console side, see our guide to Diablo 4 loot filters for console players.

Whatever platform you are on, test a new filter before trusting it. Run a few dungeons with it active, then check whether anything you wanted ended up hidden. If it did, loosen the rule responsible and test again. A filter you trust is worth far more than one that looks tidy but quietly eats your upgrades.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I use a loot filter made for another class on my Paladin?

You can import it, but it will usually highlight item types and affixes a Paladin doesn't use and may hide ones you need. Treat it as a starting point and rewrite the rules that are tied to the other class's build.

How many rules can a Diablo 4 loot filter have?

Each filter holds up to 25 rules, and only one filter is active at a time. Each rule has a mode (Show, Hide or Recolor) and a color, so spend rules on what changes your decisions on the ground.

Can I import a Paladin loot filter code on console?

No. Consoles cannot paste filter codes, so you rebuild the rules by hand. Every filter page on /loot-filters shows the decoded rule list with each rule's name, mode and color, which works as a checklist while you build.