Double merits on WST

I ran the Silver Mantis SF twice with my L38-39 Corruptor. The first time was during the day of the release. Second time was last night. First time I received double merits (84), the second time I received regular merits (42).

I'm almost certain the 18 hour timer had passed.
I looked over the rewards chat and did not see any message about receiving 42 twice, just one message of receiving 42 merits.
I have about 250 merits, so I'm not positive whether I got 84 or not, just didn't seem like it from reward chat.

Do we get double merits for doing the WST more than once during the week, assuming your timer has passed?

You only get the WST reward bonus the first time you run it on any particular character. After that you get badge credit.

More details on the wiki

Thanks for link.

OK, so both the "bonus xp" and the "double merits" are treated like the Notice of the Well in terms of once a week rewards? Hmm, that's too bad, really reduces the incentive to do non-component TFs as WST after the first one, since there's no shards/components for 50s and no extra reward for non-50s.

I duno about you but it may be fun to run tf's. I think there were multitudes of lower level tf's ran by 50's before the incarnate system started.

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Originally Posted by makerian Thanks for link. OK, so both the "bonus xp" and the "double merits" are treated like the Notice of the Well in terms of once a week rewards? Hmm, that's too bad, really reduces the incentive to do non-component TFs as WST after the first one, since there's no shards/components for 50s and no extra reward for non-50s.

As i recall Second Measure's post suggests that in Issue 20 (all?) lower level enemies will drop Incarnate Shards. Which admittedly isn't a big incentive at this moment.

Let me rephrase, as a means of "gating content", it's not particularly incentivized if the only time the content gives a special reward is the first time.

I can see that some people like any TF or certain TFs and would play them even with diminished rewards or no extra rewards (certainly people did them before shards).

I also wouldn't consider a NotW equivalent to double merits/bonus xp, but that's me. I would equate them more with components, which would operate on the timer.

In any case, it's good to know that it is working as intended.

Those of us with multiple characters will be running the TFs for levelling (as usual) with the bonus of double merits. Win-Win!