Any advice for a L25 druid?

[Elfminster]

So I'm at the giant fort in WW and I have 1 DoT to my name and no pet.

Every time I kill a giant I have to med to full so it's a very dull slow process without any mana regen.

I tried face tanking with DS and got owned.

If it goes tits up, which it does, there's no FD so it's gate/run.

Meanwhile, the L23 Iksar necro next to me is killing 3 giants to my 1.

I tried the woolly mammoth but just ended up chasing nothingburgers.

I'm also human so I'm blind as a bat and no racial bonuses.

Is this how it's supposed to be or am I doing it wrong?

I like the ports but with how slow it is I started thinking about shaman with a decent weapon but I'm being told that to be a half decent shaman I need 300kpp, guise and to be ogre but ogres are frikkin huge and I'm poor and guises stopped dropping.