So I return from wits end and run the game again, sure enough I beat Master Vrook. But I had to stoop to being a cheating whore like him to do it, I had to mine the entire room. Not only that but I had to get him stuck on something so he couldn't touch me while I laid mines. To me, if you have to do that to beat a boss something is seriously wrong with the game, it's a huge rift in believability and it leaves me liking this game alot less.
But the real problem is the bugs. Returning to the Ebon Hawk after wrecking Vrook the ship screen loads and the game locks up. And again, and again. In fact this is my fifth try loading and nothing happens. I will be trying again tomorrow and if it is the same I won't be playing this game again in a long time, or at least until a reasonable patch comes out.