Mercenary issues.

Mercenary using a crossbow has a painfully slow attack speed. Using the spacebar roll to evade causes a reload and huge pause to attack. This makes the evade useless. It should not be necessary to have to reload after each evade.

Elemental damage with cold is so low damage it is not viable.

Having to sacrifice movement speed in order to reach projectile damage or attack speed damage which is absolutely necessary with the crossbow is punishing. Due to the node spacing and irrelevant nodes in the starting crossbow tree most of the time will be spent grinding for skill points that are not helpful in order to reach nodes that apply to the weapon of choice. Grinding like this does not feel like accomplishment or satisfaction. It becomes work..a job instead of enjoyment.