Mercenary - Weapon Swap needs improvements

I've been playing Mercenary and now at lvl 50, I feel like I have enough playtime to give some feedback.

Originally, I too, had an issue with the core flow of the class. Specifically, that reloading and firing the weapon are two separate actions. But this is something that has grown on me and no longer notice it.

The biggest gripe I have now is how this class handles when wanting to use two crossbows at the same time. Each one specialized for a specific combo or damage type.

When wielding 2 crossbows at the same time (playing on PC) there is a 'Fire Weapon Action' for each crossbow. Re-loading bolts loads them into the crossbow that is currently being wielded. This means that I need to have two bindings for the two crossbows, one for each 'Fire Weapon' action, yet another button for this already chunky class. I've tried playing like this and it's a struggle to keep in mind which crossbow I'm wielding so that I can load the ammo that aligns with the weapons specialization.


My suggestion it to be able to bind the ammo type to a particular crossbow weapon / or weapon slot. Then when loading ammo, it automatically swaps to the weapon/slot that the ammo type was bound to. This change would also flatten the fire weapon action, (from two separate actions to one) and make it generic to the weapon being wielded, rather than only firing one of the weapons.


I have chosen the Witch Hunter Ascendency and was planning on taking Weapon Master at some point, but this issue makes it much too difficult to make best use of.

I have not played other classes to compare with how weapon slots and attack(s)/spell(s) interact with weapon swaps, but my understanding of how the weapon bound passive points were presented in the dev vlogs, it was to be able to specialize a weapon slot for a specific spell(s). With this in mind, the Mercenary class feels like it's not on par with the other classes who can quickly weapon swap based on the attack/spell(s) cast.