I think it's hard to play a melee build that uses heavy spirit-draining elemental moves? At least until your chr matures and you can max out your spirit gen.

I'm somewhere in the 40s atm with my druid. My early build was a straight-up shred wolf and that worked ok. But then for some reason I got several legendary drops that boost earth moves so I slid into more of an earth build. The basic move for earth is ranged, so you can kite a bit until you're ready with your power moves.