I think soldiers are "annoying" more than anything.

My chief grip about the Mistlands is how resource intensive it is because of the difficulty. If I can get to an advantageous position, I can take down a soldier with frost arrows to his butt. But I'll burn through 40 or more arrows doing it. It feels like I'm fighting the Elder again -- just chipping away -- not particularly challenging, just time (and arrow) consuming. Pretty soon it's back to base to re-arm.

Caught in the open, the Bonemass ability and Frostner works wonders ... but now I've "spent" my Bonemass ability so it's back to base to ... to ... I guess pet the chickens and kill time waiting for the cooldown timer to expire.