Hi, I had to stop playing Diablo 4 during season 2 because of health issues. I just returned to the game only to find all of my aspects missing. Many of them were maxed out, I’m missing several bank tabs, several tabs worth of gear and mats. What happened? Where’s my stuff? Why can’t have the opportunity to salvage everything if it’s no longer in the game. Why didn’t I get my high tier aspects. This is very upsetting.
Check your codex, they should be there.
They’ve changed how aspects work, so now when you salvage a legendary, the aspect goes into your codex at whatever stats the aspect on the legendary was. You can then use it as much as you want to imprint legendaries. (And salvaging a legendary with a better version of the aspect will update your codex with the better version —you’ll see a special icon when in a shop or blacksmith window if salvaging it gives you an upgrade.)
The game should have automatically added any extracted aspects from your inventory/stash directly into it when you logged into the character, which does often lead to weirdly empty stash.
Keep in mind that if you had stuff in your seasonal stash from season 2, it may be gone. It goes into a special tab in eternal when the season ends, but I think those expire when the following season rolls over.