Unfortunately, Blizzard has to take PVP into account for all of these great ideas.

because they can't give cats & moonkin a tank damage reduction cooldown or you could just bring a boomkin/cat instead of a resto druid.

What if for balancing it for PvP it came at the cost of being dispellable again?

@ Lis.

If its a resto talent.... your point is mute.

It's been a long day. >.>

I have objections to the many versions of "we'll give up barkskin for our new toy" concessions that people are doing. If blizzard wants to give us a NEW ability, we shouldn't have to trade something for it, we should get it in addition to what we have. Tieing a damage reduction to something like Nature's Swiftness would be an improvement, whereas having to give up the current version of barkskin to get a weaker version we could put on other people makes me /sadface (because it would never be able to go live as strong as it is and on as short of a cooldown if it could be used on other people).

I think that's the beauty of making it provide more damage reduction depending on the number of HoT's on the target. For maximum effect you'd have to use a lot of mana over the duration of the spell to provide any heavy sort damage reduction. Rujuv, LB, Regrowth, and WG all added up are a significant chunk of mana. Essentially what it would do is let you bring a tanks health up from a low level without the fear of him dying before your HoT's can really ramp up.