Mickey already posted tales of Mighty-Jew and Bowey, but I'd like to add a
bit more from the bowazons point of perspective. Skillwise mostly and
itemwise.
I started out deciding I would try all bow skills and just do the same as
usual in the passsive tree. But no real plan yet. So I stepped into..

Normal mode.
Not much changed in normal I must say, except some higher life of critters
and a tad more speed for some of them. I had to do with whatever I could
find or make. No twinking. Because more rares seemed to drop everything went
very smoothly. The first death (actually many more than 1) came against
Duriel. As I posted before, this boss seems a bit too big for certain builds
at that moment in their life. My druid and necro were able to kill him at
level 20, but Bowey died I think 8 times with Duriel still at 70% life.
Ouch. So I leved to 24 and tried again, now armed with immo arrow and a
decoy. Only one death this time, but I passed.

Act3 was easy after that, so was the first part of act4. at that time I was
using some rare breastplate, a 12-34 damage rare bow (an imbue, really!) and
some more rare stuff. Nothing great. In came wondering a Jewish barbarian at
that time. So from normal Diablo on we teamed up, preparing for the things
to come.

Running around sofar with no leech whatsoever. But with the low damage I was
dealing, who cared. Still using mainly the fire and cold arrow tree.
Plunking away at one critter at the time. Diablo had no chance. Act5 seemed
pretty easy also, although we did take our time to level a bit and do some
mf runs. Ancients down, Baal down. At that time we were 40-ish I think. The
low damage bow was beginning to become a problem. All kinds of pally stuff
dropping but no bows. Aargh.
Immolation arrow proved to be worthwile. Decided pumping that and stick some
point in guided. 1 point in freezing arrow.

Nightmare.
Damn this suddenly seemed a lot harder than 1.09. Except a few types that
didn't seem to have changed much since 1.09. Probaly they are 1.09 dupes.
All I could do is freeze monsters so Mickey could chop them up. My damage
output was ridiculous. The turning point came when Andy dropped a Kuko. I
couldn't have wished for something better. My favorite bow.
Hell, I could also kill again. Great. After that nightmare mode was very
doable. Unique groups, especially the types that have high life to begin
with, are horrible for me. My only hope there is that the valk can hold
them. The valk seemed indestructable at times. But then sometimes she would
just vanish. Usually against elemental damage. But it seems a  lot better
than in1.09. But the AI is still... well...

The end of nightmare mode was reached in out late 60's. The combination
freeze/cook still worked well. MIckey chopping things up in the mean time,
but he wasn't in the way too much :) There were still occasional deaths
every now and then. Got mugged at the way down in the Crystaline passage (in
all mode btw), and ran into some extra crispy unique group every now and
then. Usually it was carelessness or being surprised by the strength of some
of the 1.10 groups.
At this moment I was outkilling Mickey, but that changed when we started....

Hell mode.
We started that at about level 70. Everything seemd 10 times as difficult
suddenly.Like an entire difficulty mode was missing. I began to doubt if
immo would still be any use. Freezing arrow still worked fine. I had been
loading up on cold damage charms and could still freeze everyone for a few
seconds. My life was horribly low at only 500 at than time. damage about 200
average. However Griswold came to the rescue and dropped an Eaglehorn.
Unfortunately it still seemed to do too little damage to kill at any speed.
My gear was still the same as drom normal mode. I did find a viper magi in
the worldstone eep in NM but it was ethereal, so my merc was wearing it.
Luckily Mickey got another (normal) one for me during one of his mf runs.
But as we got used to the increased difficuly we adapted and improved our
play. I don't think we ever died in hell mode anymore. The difficuly mostly
lies in the high life of monsters. I could solo anywhere, but some unique
groups I can't beat. Think Vampires / zombies / spiders. Too much life.
But play was very doable, depite the fact I still had no life leech and only
4% mana leech from a rare circlet. Yes you can basically play without leech
as a bowazon, not using MS of course. The single arrow attack strategy still
worked. My to hit was horrible, but using FA, GA and Immo, who cares? That
is the nice thing about these skills.

After upgrading to a Buriza and putting on Andariels visage, Laying of
hands, better rare gloves and boots, we finished hell. At times I used MS a
bit but it just seems to bad a skill now. Frequent use of the decoy is very
helpful, either to draw out monsters or to occupy them. Some wil destroy the
decoy in one swipe, however Hell Ancients did not seem able to hit her.
Strange but true. Ball was beaten at level 84, 700 life, 200 mana, damage
400-1900 with mian used skills GA, FA and immo. Still some attribute points
and skill points in te bank.

Conclusion.
So is hell unplayable in solo mode? Not really. Any normal monsters I can
take on, also in act 5. The problem lies in unique groups and champions.
Some of them take just way too long to kill. No skill needed, just a very
muscular index finger to keep ploinking away. That is disappointing. However
I think that any team of 2 or more, will have not much problems dealing with
these groups. And actually then it is more fun than 1.09. The fights
resembled very much the fights my hunter druid had in 1.09 hell. Fighting
for your life all the time and be very satisfied when you brought them down
eventually. If getting to Mephisto in hell takes me 30 minutes and every
minion blood lord takes 2 minutes, Bremm takes 20 seconds, and Meph decides
to give up in under 15, I think there is something screwy here.
Same with the infector of Souls being much more of a pain then Diablo
himself.

Drops seem pretty good. Bosses continue to produce colorful drops, even with
no or little mf on you. We found many, many of the new unique elites, even
an Aldur's armor. One of the items I have never found in 1.09. Still I was
lucky getting the unique bows. I haven't seen any rare or magical bow drop
that was even remotely close to the uniques. But all in all, the drop rate
of items is pretty nice.

But 1.10 does screw up special builds and hardcore, I would suspect.it will
be quite some time for  a hardcore character to beat Baal hell mode. There
are just too many instant death situations along the way. Trap assassins wil
also have a difficult time I suspect. But we will see. All in all I think
1.10 might be an improvement over 1.09. If bugs are fixed and hacked items
removed of course.

Well now I will try my level 24 wolf and level 20 necro. Mickey is going to
try a pally , I think. So I will see with which of these two he is going to
tag along. My wolf Therewolf I suspect. Anyone who saw Young Frankenstein
knows where that name came from :)

greetings
Frank