Old player returning,worth investing on gear?
With the expansion coming in a month, wouldn’t the gear now become obsolete? Also, I would be interested in playing D/D in wvw, how difficult is it to obtain celestial gear?
No new gear tiers are being added, so you don’t need to worry about gear being obsolete. Also, the specialization doesn’t open up any doors for truly different playstyles, so getting some zerker stuff for PvE and celestial or mixed stuff for wvw shouldn’t be too bad.
Celestial gear isn’t really that hard to get, but it is time-gated by crafting charged quartz (1 per day). That being said, you don’t really NEED celestial, and can do quite well with a mix of different equipment types. I would build with a mix of soldier, zerk, and knights to start out with, then mix in some celestial as you have time to make it.
IF, by some strange miracle, you need to change your gear up, it is not a total loss. Ascended gear can be retraited with the mystic forge (although you lose the rune), while exotics are cheap.