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Only problem with ele staff is when they cast meteor shower they can interrupt it and meteor shower still drops for full duration.
There is actually a strange interaction with cancelling a meteor shower early. Yes, the effective meteor shower has full duration; however, the earlier the elementalist cancels, or is interrupted, in the cast time results in less meteors being dropped.
There is currently a known bug that causes the cooldown of imbued melodies to be 30 secs, or 20 with Geomancer’s Training, which is the same cooldown as sandsquall. Also, the tooltip does not specify this, (maybe a bug?) but you have to have a warhorn equipped to cast sandsquall from this trait.
I hope this helps.
I am currently leveling another Elementalist and finding similar issues to what you are facing. The first thing that I can tie the awkwardness to is the fact that a new player does not get air attunement until level 11 and earth attunement until level 15. While still early in the game, the time to get there forces a lot of new players to be comfortable with fire and water.
The second thing that I can point to is that in PvE, leveling especially, a player tends to not need air or earth unless they are against some challenging/more difficult encounter. This is largely due to the fact that most enemies die within a couple of seconds in a Lava Font or Meteor Shower.
That all being said, it is still useful to learn how to best use each attunement due to the nature of Elementalist. For starters, Dromina said it already, earth and air attunements are both utility focused. They are useful when you need to kite more difficult enemies or prevent a large group of small mobs from swarming you. Don’t forget that Lightning Surge (Air #2) is an AoE (at the target’s melee range) blind with a very high damage coefficient and that Magnetic Aura (Earth #3) give you a Magnetic Aura that will reflect projectiles.
Other useful things you can do with earth is to use Eruption (Earth #2) before switching to another attunement. Eruption has a long delay Blast Finisher and you can use that to your advantage by switching into fire attunement to lay down a Lava Font ontop of it for a Fire Field. The resulting Blast Finisher in the Fire Field will give you 3 stacks of Might for 20 seconds.
I hope this helps and good luck with leveling!