Getting hit by others' enemy AoE while DoL gathering

[Fynlar]

Another solution would be to remove enemies with AoE attacks from gathering nodes

Could, but that would actually affect the rest of the "non-DoL" game, even if only in a minor way.

Simply giving DoLs AoE protection (only from enemies NOT on the player's hate list) while gathering, or while Stealth is up or whatever, would have pretty much zero impact on the rest of the game, and would be the solution that would make most sense to go for from a designer's standpoint.

Or giving DoL the skill "throwing stone" back

Haven't been around long enough to know what that does @_@