So I've been progressing with my bow druid a little bit, and I am beginning to struggle at Nightmare difficulty:
1) I can't beat Baal for shit. I just respecced smaxing Cascade for farming and I used Nova shot or Laughing Ghost for single target (1pt in each). I've also taken Acid Fiends now (maxing Elvensong for HP) which I didn't have before to get some meatshields - but that was a wasted respec - Fiends die fast there. I started leveling with lycanthropy&Wolf Reanimates which worked amazingly well if I didn't die. Should I get an honorific Item with Minion resistances?
How baal fight goes; Meatshields die super fast while I can remove around 10% of Baal's HP, then I am stuck with recasting Fiends which die faster than I can summon, Baal hits me three times and I die
EDIT: Finally beat him by kiting and spamming laughing ghost and Fiends, probably died ~10 times.
2) Mana is starting to get better now after getting some regenerate mana MOs. What is the best source for mana regen during bossfights? Leech, Mana on Attack, or % regen?
3) When I die while farming it's often due to absurdly high damage from one source or simply being surrounded by 50 mobs. The latter one is an obvious reason, but sometimes an ability just oneshots or bursts me quite fast to death (4600 HP). Is my defence too low? Should I work on a higher lifepool?
4) What breakpoints should i get going forward? Obv FHR is an important stat, but what about Attack Speed (which of my abilities are working with attack speed and which with Cast Rate? I haven't figured that out yet), Movement Speed as Bow Druid is really bad so I will probably put some spare gold into MOs