What exactly happens at the end of a season in Diablo 3?
With the start of the first Season today, I found myself wondering what happens to the characters you level up during the season, as well as your farmed items and other progress.
Can someone please elaborate on what occurs? The information I found was a bit vague.
Best Answer
In a nutshell, and based on this wiki page:
Heroes
At the end of a Season, your Seasonal Normal (or Hardcore) heroes, inventory, shared stash, and Paragon experience will transfer to your Normal (or Hardcore) non-Seasonal profile. Any items, equipped or in the hero's inventory, will roll-over with the hero itself.
Heroes seasonal tags are removed.
Shared Stash
Items in your Seasonal heroes' shared stash will be mailed to your Normal/Hardcore non-Seasonal profile. These items can be retrieved by entering a game on any non-Seasonal hero and clicking on the mail icon located in the lower left of your screen.
These items aren't automatically placed in your non-Seasonal stash, so you can wait and make room first before claiming them (if needed). Under current design, mailed items from your Seasonal stash will remain available for 30 days after a Season has ended.
Paragon Experience
Paragon experience earned during a Season will transfer over directly without any additional involvement required from players.
Achievements
If you unlock an achievement on a Seasonal hero that you haven't already unlocked on a non-Seasonal hero, you'll gain credit for both at the same time.
Gold and blood shards
Gold will be automatically transferred from your Seasonal profile to your non-Seasonal profile. Ditto for Blood Shards.
When transferring over your Blood Shards from your Seasonal profile to your non-Seasonal profile, the 500 cap will temporarily be ignored. In this case, players will be unable to pick up any more Blood Shards until they drop below 500.
Artisan levels and learned crafting plans
If your Seasonal Artisan is higher level, its level should transfer at the end of the season. Any recipes you have on your Seasonal Artisan that are not on your non-Season Artisan are transferred as well.
Legendary gems
Under current design, if you drop a Seasonal legendary gem that you already possess in Normal mode, you'll end up with two of such gems.
Rewards
As stated by the in-game help screen, you'll obtain exclusive Transmogrifications if you reach the level 70. It's also possible to unlock exclusive Banner styles.

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What happens to stash when season ends Diablo 3?
Items that are in your Seasonal stash will be sent through the in-game mail system to your non-Seasonal heroes. These items can be claimed by any non-Seasonal hero for up to 30 days from the time you first log in after the Season ends or until the second season after you last logged in begins.What happens to your Paragon levels after season?
After the season is over the paragon levels you have in season, will carry over to your non-seasonal character. Paragon does not carry over equally as in NS 100 + Season 100 carry over = 200. In above example your total carry over to NS would only be paragon 145.What happens at the end of Diablo?
At the end of the game, the hero kills Diablo's mortal form. The hero then takes the Soulstone out of Diablo's forehead after which Diablo transforms into a lifeless Prince Albrecht. The hero then drives the Soulstone into his/her own forehead, and he or she contains the essence of Diablo within himself or herself.Diablo 3! So What Happens At The End Of A Season? Let's Talk About That!
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Answer 2
Since this has changed over the past several seasons,
Any currency, materials, recipes, items, Paragon experience, and Artisan progression earned during a Season will be rolled over to a player's non-Seasonal profile once the Season concludes. (src)
The Kanai Cube perks are included as part of Artisan progression. (src) And any other progress that exceeds that of your regular account is imported as well (gold, shards, artisan recipes). The character and their inventory is simply converted to a regular character, and the seasonal shared stash is "mailed" to your regular stash, whereupon you'll have a month to reconcile those items into your regular stash's limits.
Paragon levels are converted to raw experience points and added to the regular account's Paragon. (src) You can use this calculator if you want to predict your final level.
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