Guild Wars 2

The “Season of Merriment” is this winter’s version of the meta, one which you get by doing at least 3 winter dailies a day for 5 days.

Now it says you can repeat it up to 10 times, but as that would require at least 49 days of winter, that’s obviously not going to happen.

If you logged in on time the first day of Wintersday, you could do three dailies that day, then right after reset do three more, so by day 28 of Wintersday, a very dedicated achiever will have completed 29 sets of 3 winter dailies for a total of 5 “Season of Merriment” achievements and 4/5 days towards a 6th achievement.

My question is: Does this wrap around to next Christmas? Or is that last 4/5 days pretty much wasted as far as the meta is concerned?

On the one hand, I do like the idea of the meta wrapping around, but not if the limit of doing it 10 times maximum then ends up getting filled next winter, never to be available again.

If it does NOT wrap around, it would be good to know so I don’t waste the effort.

So any idea how it’s going to play out?

Nope. We may have to wait until next year to find out. It may run for 2 years, and then change. It may not. It may run for 3 years, and then change. It may not.

Only time will tell.

My guess (and it is just a guess) is that the way repeatable achievements work means they had to put something in for a maximum number of repeats and when they created it they weren’t sure exactly how long Wintersday would last, so they put in 10 knowing it would definitely be less than 50 days and no one would be stuck unable to keep doing it.

Then whoever decides exactly how long the festival lasts either didn’t consider the achievement or decided other factors are more important.

I think you might be overthinking it!

I just want to get all of the rewards from it. There are 5 skins and some number of minis in there, hopefully it comes back next year as I don’t think Wintersday lasts long enough to get all of them

The minis are the same minis that were available from past Wintersdays, and they’re also available from the Wintersday PvP/WvW Reward Tracks. As such, if you want all the rewards, pick the five skins from your five completions this year, and get the minis elsewhere.

Oh I didn’t know the minis came from reward tracks as well, that’s awesome to hear

You can also get the Minis with Black Lion Miniature Claim Tickets during Wintersday.