Crossbow Targetting with a Controller, bug and suggestion

Skills like permafrost bolt lock on to an enemy and if it is close to you, you will shoot the bolt directly at the floor and the cone of damage shrinks to almost nothing. It is basically unplayable with how unreliable targeting with a controller is, since half your shots fizzle and only hit one target while 15 more are running at you. I swapped to mouse & keyboard and it does not behave this way and feels dramatically better to use.

A general suggestion for controller targeting I have is just let the right stick control which direction you shoot the cone (or line of) damage as you hold the stick and fire. The auto targeting flips around between targets so aggressively it is more of a liability than an aid. Also, having the right stick individually cycle targets in a game with literally 50 enemies on screen at once all moving at Mach 1 at you is useless, so there is no loss to making the right stick control a directional cone for your line of fire.