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I'd say Adrenaline needs looking at as well. It's quite useless in 1v1. Perhaps making Adrenaline reduce enemy's rage by whatever it is at your level? So at Lvl 10, it gives you Rage 25% faster and you could make your enemy get it 25% slower too. In 2v2, it could be tougher but you could just split the effect of reducing between the two so 12.5% less each (rounded up to 13%), unless there are 2 Mercs so they'd stack to maximum of 25% each on the enemy.

Apart from that, good idea of buffing Intimidate to make it unique skill for them as well as simply provide them with a needed buff. Say, Intimidate working like it is now but add EP regen to it similar to one of Blood Commander (%-wise) so when enemy is Intimidated then % of their damage will be transfered to Energy. It'd provide nice overall buff and make a skill useful in more battles so Mercenaries could gain advantage and compete better. So it'd be useful to preserve Energy since you could still debuff the enemy and get some/most of EP spent on Intimidate back if you can get good source of damage.

Lastly I'd like to suggest a re-arranged Merc skill tree found here: http://i45.tinypic.com/zairp.png
With this skill tree, you can get to skills you want much easier. Of course, SS needs Berzerker and Bunker before you can get it but you can do Bunker + SS build with high Energy. Atom is now easier to get and so is Adrenaline; not literally easier but it gives you better choice to create other builds instead of old skill tree. I've also taken FC + Multi idea from TLMs as it seems quite good. But main point is - you can make builds quite easier now as you aren't restricted by having useless skills you won't use. SS build need Bunker and Zerker as I said but you don't have to use them, although Bunker can be used as life-saving skill if you even have it at Lvl 1 with Tech build for SS.
There's simply much bettter synergy between the skills and allows you to get better builds without wasting points elsewhere.

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Actually, Aegis, people wanted HA to be split rather than toggleable. I didn't like it at first but I find it better now since it's +1 above E/P versions (total numbers) and it has good conjuration with P Armor, E Armor and Hybrid (Tech build will get +6 for HA, P Armor and Tech will improve Res & vice versa). Of course toggleable is better in this scenario but it takes a turn to switch and it's your disadvantage if it's at P and enemy uses Energy attacks. So there are benefits to it.

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Guys we all know mercs need a buff