Mercenary reload bug

Mercenary will not shoot after reload, has a huge delay and game is unplayable
Left click simply does not work
Anyone else have the issue or any work around?

There's a thread in the other bug reports forum about it. (Maybe a mod can move that thread to this forum?) https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3596230

I also have experienced this issue with a merc. I am in Act II and still have inconsistent reload time and then shots not firing - the merc will just stand there not doing anything while I am hitting the "attack" or fir crossbow.

Also experienced this behaviour. Makes it really frustrating to fight the act 1 boss. While running, dodging - mostly no reloading is happing, cannot fire when facing the boss. Very hard using the fragmentation rounds which need to reload every time (1 shot).

I'm havind the same problem, my merc reload his bolt and after this he can't shoot or do anything, he just walk.

Same problem. This happens all the time...rolling and switching weapons in boss fights especially, since you are trying to not get hit. You can usually fix it by letting go of left click and re-engaging. But sometimes this doesn't even work and you spend the next few seconds spamming left click or switching weapons frantically trying to get the merc to reload and start shooting again. Mercenary is so fun to play and this bug is absolutely brutal when it counts the most.

+1 I also have this problem. At first, I tried to make use of the weapon swap feature, especially with the new tree system. Swapping weapons never worked and the game would swap back to my initial weapon immediately. I played the game like this pretty successfully as one weapon was fine, hoping the bug would get fixed before my character gets bricked.

After getting through to maps, I wanted to try my weapon set 2 stuff, so I removed my secondary weapon, placed the crossbow that worked in that slot, now none of my crossbow skills work in either weapon set. I can only fire grenades.

Please fix ASAP. I will not be returning until the bug is resolved. Getting through the campaign was long enough, I just want to do maps on a character I enjoy