At lower levels I used Shred for my main damage, then took 3/3 Abundance for 18% more spirit generation, Blood Howl for the spirit generation, and then 3/3 Clarity for 6 spirit every time you transform into a human. Then using any combination of core and basic skills that make you transform back and forth generates a lot of extra spirit.

Most classes suffer with resource upkeep. My sorcerer was painful to play with mana issues until somewhere around level 50.

I'm currently levelling a druid and not having too much in the way of trouble. Using storm strike and the howl for increased attack speed, I basically go "punch punch pulverize" over and over again.

I think this combos well with the "natural balance" aspect which makes storm skills give increased crit damage to earth skills, and earth skills give increased crit chance to storm skills.

Yeah it’s just a cancer leveling Druid but once you can get one of the builds rolling it’s fine

Druid leveling is one of the worst experiences in the game currently. There are a few builds that can help with the resource problem, but they also aren't exactly amazing leveling either. Just cross your fingers and hope for some decent legendary drops like the resource generation ring.

Try to prioritize max spirit and spirit cost reduction in your gear

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.

Awesome. So it looks like it should get better with gear and skills later on. I’m enjoying the class a lot just thought maybe it was me missing something honestly. I came from playing a necro and had some issues with essence but not nearly as bad as I have had with Druid. Thanks for the help all!

Awesome. So it looks like it should get better with gear and skills later on. I’m enjoying the class a lot just thought maybe it was me missing something honestly. I came from playing a necro and had some issues with essence but not nearly as bad as I have had with Druid. Thanks for the help all!

Spirit will sort itself over time. It's the single target damage that's abysmal really :/