Hi , good to see you here as well 
Optimally i would save up for some mocap equipment that can deliver reasonable results, and so far the only experiences i have are with ipisoft. With that you will however get quite bad quality data, well depending on how the recording environment are setup and lots of other factors. I would love to try out how it is to work with ie. a vicon or optitrack, but as an amateur, that’s clearly out of range for me at the moment. So since im clearly interrested in animation and in particular motion capture, the only viable option i see, are to keep using my ipisoft solution and maybe invest in perception neurons, all though i’ve read quite varying reviews on it… like typical chinese quality (breaks easy and stuff like that). Hopefully someone else which already has a suit can shed some more light on the PN’s.
Back to the question of is it worth trying to do own animations/mocap. I’d say it all depends on your interrests or goals. As FrankieV said, it’s possible to gather quite a nice library of animations by surfing around various sources, so if you mostly want to produce some results and not delve too much with animations specifically, then i’d go with marketplace assets/other sources.