beel, if you don't mind a couple suggestions - and you may have already played through the game or made these discoveries yourself -
and if you'd rather not see, please don't read any further.











have your 'other' character as leader and set archer to 'aggressive'. things wont get close. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
put your skill points into reload, critical hit and piercing (maybe 2,2,1) with ocassional drops into point blank and splitting arrows. i ended with 44 skill points divided as follows: reload 12, point blank 4, critical hit 12, piercing 12, splitting arrows 4.
she was unstoppable, with many things/monsters dying before they became visible through the fog-of-war.
hope this isn't too forward.