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Sorting uniques yields incorrectly sorted items when main skill is minion based
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What is the expected behaviour/value?
I understand the sorting might be tricky because some sorting options need to apply to minions, such as DPS or life when a minion skill is selected.
Except some sorting options seem to player-only (strength, dexterity, intelligence, effective hit pool, and so on). So for these, I would expect to have items being sorted based on the character itself rather than the skill selected.
What is the actual behaviour/value?
When sorting unique items, many of the sorting options yields the wrong results.
I identified two cases where sorting results are either alphabetically sorted (case 1) or seemingly random (case 2)
The root cause of the issue seems to be linked with having a Main Skill configured on a minion skill (in my case Absolution).
Selecting a non-minion skill causes the sorting option to yield an adequately sorted list.
Case 1 - Sorting options yielding alphabetically sorted list
Examples (with 1st result highlighted)
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Sort by Mana:

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Sort by Strength:

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Sort by Dexterity:

Case 2 - Sorting options yielding list in seemingly random order
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Sort by Effective Hit Pool:- 1st item:

- 2nd item:

- 10th item:

- 1st item:
How to reproduce the issue
- Add any minion skill as main skill, for example:
Absolution - Sort unique items by metrics only affecting the player, for example:
Strength,Dexterity,IntelligenceorEffective Health Pool - Then switch the main skill to a non-minion skill => results are different from
step 2.
Character build code
https://pobb.in/2pE4Szyp5TuB
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Research direction
No source file or test is identified in the issue. Load the linked character build, select a minion skill such as Absolution, and reproduce sorting unique items by Strength, Dexterity, Mana, or Effective Hit Pool, then compare with a non-minion main skill. Done means player-only metrics sort consistently regardless of the selected skill, with regression coverage for the reported cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- lua
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
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