I have now been to the Merayah fortress a few times. My initial thoughts about it have been confirmed, it’s ridiculously easy to just climb in and get explosives and top tier weapons without having to fight for them. And it’s actually a better reward to get the bombs, rams and katanas than to take out the boss since there’s basically no reward for that. You get much gold, yes, but like it wasn’t available by the tons anyways. No proper gear, the same 2-3 recipes over and over again that you probably have already gotten from the Archives…
Just not worth it, especially with the lag issues that might cause you and your followers to die. Like for example the last time i went, i jumped in through the roof ready to take down the boss but i died instantly without even seeing a swing from the guy. Thanks, lag. It’s not like it wouldn’t have happened before, but this time as i went back the fortress had repaired itself. I had a bedroll right next to it as before but now it had reset for some reason with my corpse inside of course. Fortunately i had my harrypotter circle ready to recall my corpse so i wouldn’t have to go through the trouble of replacing everything.
But yeah, the lag and zero reward is enough reason for me not to go back except to run and grab the stuff from the yard. The experience was exactly what i expected, you try it once or twice and that’s it. There hasn’t been any interesting content in the game for a while now.