Indeed most druid buffs are meele orientated and infact they do a fine job there. The one that adds a % to proc adds a lot to a fighters DPS. While our greatest self buff is Moon Talisman without any doubt, the AC, HP and Dex buffs still help when being hit as it adds to your evade stats as well as the damage taken. Its not much but still valuable.
Yet I agree fully that the druids meele orientation does not really fit into the concept of us wearing simple cloth armor. Add the new aggro reducer into consideration that needs you to be within a 10m range of the target mobs and it becomes even more oddly. I guess its because of the archtype system where every arcane caster is to wear robes automatically.
As for the future of us druids, Mensis, Druid Class Rep at TTH, interviewed Michael "Avair" Mann, the lead designer for the druid class. The article is an interesting read, contains quite some information esp. what is currently planned for the druid and can be found
here.