Guild Wars 2

My main is a D/D, how viable is it still in the meta?
Do I have to use a staff with the new class?
Not sure where I should start with the new expansion, suggestions?

I suppose you’re talking PvE. Thief is out of the PvE raid meta. The rest of the PvE doesn’t really matter, but yeah, D/D is what you’d play there. The new Staff also works well on bosses with large hitboxes.

D/D can work as power, its just pretty hard theres days to kill competent people in wvw and spvp, other wise you could ignore skills #1 #2 #4 #5 and spam death blosom for bleed stacks.

Staff is a great weapon with good utialtys on it as well as nice dmg (vault can be easily dodged though)

Just buy Hot, it its 1 payment and dosnt cost an arm n a leg and go from there but you will miss a lot of the story by starting with HoT story mode.