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Your inventory is more than just a backpack, it's your lifeline, your arsenal and your vault of potential. Efficient stash and inventory management can mean the difference between a smooth endgame grind and a cluttered, chaotic mess. Let’s break down how to master your inventory in The Division 2.
Get Extra Stash Space in Division 2
To maximize your inventory space in The Division 2, consider the following options:
Year 1 Pass: Grants an additional 50 stash slots.
Battle for Brooklyn DLC: Adds another 50 stash slots.
Together, these expansions increase your stash capacity by 100 slots, allowing you to store significantly more gear and weapons. If you prefer not to spend money, there's a smart workaround: create multiple characters. While the stash is shared across all characters, each character has their own personal inventory space of 150 items. This means:
Shared stash: 450 items (with both DLCs)
Character inventory: 150 items × 4 characters = 600 items
Total potential storage: 1,050items
Even if you purchase both expansions, it's still a good idea to maintain multiple characters. You can split builds between them, organize gear more efficiently and avoid the pressure to sell or deconstruct items that might be useful later.
This approach gives you breathing room to experiment, theory craft and prepare for future meta shifts without constantly battling a full inventory.
Sort Your Gear Faster
Sort and Filter Efficiently
Use sorting options (by name, gear score, brand set, etc.) to quickly identify duplicates, outdated gear or locate specific pieces you're looking for.
Bulk Actions Save Time
Mark multiple items as Trash to dismantle them all at once.
You can also donate marked gear to Expertise or sell it in bulk to vendors streamlining your inventory management and saving valuable time.
Know Your Loadouts
It's a good idea to keep all your raid builds on a single character. This way, you always have them ready to go, and switching between them is quick and efficient especially important when playing with random groups where you can’t predict what builds others will bring.
Here’s a smart way to organize your characters:
Main Character – General PvE Builds Use your main character for builds focused on missions, Countdown and open-world activities. These are your go-to setups for daily farming and casual play.
2nd Character – Raid Builds Keep all your raid-specific builds here. Having them centralized allows for fast loadout switching and ensures you're always prepared for any role the team might need.
3rd Character – Experimental Builds If you enjoy theory crafting or testing new setups, this is your sandbox. Use this character to try out new gear combinations without cluttering your main loadouts.
4th Character – Extra Storage Treat this character as a gear vault. Store backup items, niche gear or pieces you’re not ready to dismantle but don’t currently use.
This kind of build separation becomes crucial in the endgame. As you develop more specialized builds, you’ll eventually run out of loadout slots. By distributing your builds across characters, you keep your inventory organized, your gear safe and your gameplay efficient.
It's also important to rename your loadouts with appropriate names, and make sure you've marked all gear in your build as favourites to protect them from accidental deletion or sale.
Clean After Every Raid or Mission
If you're a solo player, make it a habit to sort, sell and stash your gear after each session. This routine helps keep your inventory clean and prevents clutter from building up, since you're managing your loot as you go.
However, if you're playing in a group, it might not be practical to do this after every run. Group members often want to farm content repeatedly and as quickly as possible, and not everyone will be willing to wait while you manage your inventory.
That said, when you're playing solo, this habit is especially valuable. It ensures your stash and inventory stay organized, making it easier to find what you need.
You may be farming for a specific gear piece, but if you’re not checking your loot as you go, you might miss it and end up wasting time continuing the grind for something you’ve already picked up. Taking a moment to review your drops can save you hours of unnecessary farming and help you spot upgrades or perfect rolls before they get buried in your stash.
How do you recognize good loot from bad?
The Division 2 makes build crafting intuitive by color-coding:
🔴 Red – DPS (Damage)
🔵 Blue – Tank (Armor/Defence)
🟡 Yellow – Skill/Support
If you get a gear piece with all three core colours mixed, it’s generally not useful even if the stats are maxed out. In most cases, it’s better to extract the stats to your Recalibration Library, then sell or dismantle the item.
While some players do use hybrid combinations like Red with Blue or Blue with Yellow, it’s rare to see builds that effectively use all three core colours. That’s why gear with all three is usually not worth keeping in your stash.
Manage Exotics
Exotics are unique, named items powerful and often build-defining. You should generally only keep one of each, or one per character if you need duplicates for different builds. Any extra copies should be dismantled for Exotic Components, which are essential for:
Recalibrating exotics
Adding Expertise to your gear, weapons, specializations and skills. We have full guide for Expertise here Link
Holding onto duplicates wastes valuable stash space and offers no real benefit once you’ve got your ideal rolls.
Manage Gear Sets
Many new players tend to hoard gear sets, but this is unnecessary. Here’s why:
Gear sets are easy to farm and craft
They always come with fixed talents, one core attribute and one secondary attribute
Avoid storing duplicates; they take up space and are easily replaceable
Manage Brand Sets (High-End and Named)
You can also sort your brand sets by looking at the set bonuses, for example Walker, Harris & Co has all damage buffs that means it should be all red. Alps Summit Armaments has all skill related bonuses that means all stats should be yellow and that is one way to sort out Brand Sets if you have good pieces or not this also works on Named Items.
Weapons (High-End and Named)
Weapons have fixed attributes, but the third attribute should always be adjusted based on your DPS setups. For skill/support or tank builds, the third attribute doesn't need to be specific.
For example, talents like Spike and Reformation are skill-related and should be paired with a full yellow (skill-focused) build. On the other hand, talents like Flatline and Streamline are more DPS-oriented and should only be used with a full red (damage-focused) build.
Mod Management Tips
A single mod can be reused across multiple builds there’s no need to farm duplicates. However, if you have a second character, you’ll need to either transfer the mod or farm/craft a duplicate for that character it same for skill mods.
Keep Maxed-Out Mods
Always keep maxed-out Yellow (Skill), Red (DPS), and Blue (Defence) mods.
Blue mods are especially rare particularly the 13% Protection from Elites and 20% Incoming Repairs mods.
Mods Don’t Take Up Inventory Space
Mods have their own separate inventory, with a cap of 100 slots.
Since they don’t clutter your main inventory, it’s smart to keep all high-quality mods, even if you’re not using them right now you might realize their value later as your builds evolve. You also don't need 100 of them you just need 3 of each for mask, chest and backpack. The rest should be skill mods.
Ask Yourself
Are the stats close enough to max that it’s worth investing materials?
Do you have the resources and time to fully optimize it?
Does it fit into a build you’re actively using or planning?
Every player has their own threshold for what’s “worth it.” Some won’t bother optimizing unless a piece is already 90% perfect, while others are willing to invest in a good foundation. The key is knowing your own standards and not wasting resources on gear that won’t make the cut in the long run.