How about in Planes of Power, giving druids a damage mitigation buff. Could restrict it to being useable only on level 61+ players to keep it from being overly powerful for lower levels.

Nature's Hug
Level 61 (and only castable on those 61+)
Increase Damage Mitigation by 10% (like Combat Stability and stacks)
Mana: 250
Casting Time: 6 sec
Duration: 3 minutes
Recast time: 90 seconds (like NR)


Nature's Group Hug
Level 61
Increase Damage Mitigation by 5%
Mana: 400
Casting Time: 9 sec
Duration: 12 minutes
Recast time: 90 seconds

The group version doesnt stack with single target of course and is less powerful because one can Mass Group Buff with it.

Another post got me thinkign about a mitigation buff... though I still think healing should get fixed first I thought of a small mitigation component to our damage shields wouldn't be too bad... it'd make them a more viable choice and it'd only make since that blows would be softened at least a little bit if they're hitting you thru some real dense foliage.

Main thing would be that it might fuber older encounters = /