So I took a break from the game for around 2,5 months for irl reasons and now came back a week before S3 to fight the guy. I was specifically referring to the bluepost (“What to do before S3”) that explicitly stated:
will become unavailable or change with the release of The War Within Season 3 on August 12
I started progressing on Tuesday, but on patch day it just closed! Saw other people trying to get in as well, one person confirmed it was the same for them, too. On top of that, it is “closed” in a weird way - doesn’t let you choose the difficulty, with a tooltip saying “Requires level 80”. Which just gives the impression that it’s bugged.
I am very late for the party, I get it, but the communication should have been better. Iirc when 11.1 released, they specifically said they wanted to give players an extra week to challenge Zekvir (may be misremembering this one), but now it’s an opposite approach. Or it’s bugged. Or both. I feel sad.
Edited 08/08: Okay, think I might give an update, because this just got funny. I did some regular delves today, some other stuff and decided to check the guy for nth time before logging out. And… the ? difficulty was open for me, marked as Tier 8 (Season 2). In other words, looks like it happened because I cleared a regular Tier 7 delve today (?? difficulty was still closed).
I defeated the guy just to check, the ?? tier still didn’t open, got no loot either (no grey items, no gold, nothing). So if it is bugged in a way it looks to be (counts as a Season 3 delve for whatever reason), it should open after I clear a Tier 10 regular delve… maybe.
At the end of the day, even if they removed the rewards this week, the delve shouldn’t be closed.