I’m also gonna jump in and say I’m having the same problem.
As a lvl 11 thief I found that the waves of bandits that come in pairs go down pretty easily with the shortbow, if you can get behind the bar and position yourself so you can kinda see the door. They’ll come in and won’t aggro so you can take the first shot, and the trick arrow auto attack does the rest. As long as you get back behind the bar you can do this until Doc shows up.
But she’s another story. The sword/pistol combo seems to work in theory, the blindness and the stuns work…to a point. But even then she’s firing relentlessly and causing at least twice as much damage as I’m doing. Meanwhile I’m dancing around the bar like an idiot, dodging, stunning, praying to Kormir, and it’s all just not enough.
I don’t think I’m gonna go back to the personal story for a while. Not that coming back five levels later will mater, but maybe I’ll have recruited some help by then or at least have regained some patience.