Repeating SSA and rewards question.

I read something a while back that left me a bit confused on this and I just wanted to see if I could get some clarification.

Lets say for example I run SSA 1, 2 and 3 on my level 30 villain. I choose a villain merit on each step. Now, if I repeat the arc immediately I cannot choose the merit, is that correct? I seem to remember something about being able to run it each week but read something about only 1 merit being able to be chosen after the first play through. Not really sure if that's the case or if I can still choose a vil merit at each step of the arc? In regards to once a week... is that a full 7 days from when you do it, or reset with tuesday maintenance?

Thanks for any clarification!

There is a 7-day timer on each reward, shared across all the arcs. So for example you can run any arc on Monday and take a villain merit, and if you then run another (or the same) arc on Wednesday, the villain merit option won't be selectable, but you could choose threads. You could then run it again on Thursday and choose reward merits, and again on Friday for an Astral. If you ran the arc on Saturday, all the rewards would be on timers (but the 4x reward merits is replaced by a 1x reward merits when that one's on the timer). On the following Monday, you'd be able to run any of them for a villain merit again, on Wednesday for threads, Thursday for 4x reward merits, and Friday for an Astral.

However, the first time you do each arc gives you a reward table not subject to the timer. So you can run all the arcs in a row and claim a villain merit, and then run one of them a second time and take another villain merit, and then you'd have to wait 7 days as normal to get another one.

Thanks all