Thanks for your reply, and the welcome and hello to a fellow Canuck. I'm in New Westminster.
I'm playing DKS and I think my character is about as optimized as possible.I'm doing around 1200 damage on some critical hits but the problem is that I don't get many hits in, and it seems as though it would take hundreds of hits to get through this.
Exploding arrows 10 and splitting arrows 5 do massive damage but it seems as though Divine and Zandalor have well over 10,000 HP each. Even a crit hit with exploding arrows doesn't knock their health down by more than 10 %.
If I quickly roll left and bunny-hop along the left wall I can get all the way across the room, and I can even bunny-hop around the room for a short time. But even if I manage to get a few hits in I just get polymorphed within a few seconds pretty much every time.I just can't do enough damage fast enough. And in the time it takes to fire one shot I lose about a third of my hitpoints.
I have earlier saves I could go back to but without knowing how I goofed up its hard to know how I could improve the character.But I'll probably try because it really bothers me when I can't get a playthrough out of a game and there were a lot of things I liked about this game up to this point.
BTW, I haven't tried Psychonauts, I think my favorite more recent boss battle was Frank Fontaine in Bioshock.