Who Are We?

This is the site of the Guildwars 2 guild Fuelled by Caffeine [HYPE].

Note

This website is a work in progress.

Raids

Raids are generally run on Sundays evening European time. Reserving slots happens on Discord. For people not using Discord message someone who does (e.g. Espresso or Vice).

Fractals

There is no organised fractal group, however several people run T4 Dailies + recs every day. Usually there’s a shoutout in guild chat when those are about to start, which tends to be 14:00 to 20:00 UTC.

If you want to run other tiers, or happen to run T4 at a different time, feel free to announce this in guild chat too. Some people will gladly join you and rerun the dailies.

Guild Missions

Guild missions have no set timeframe, however there will usually be shoutouts over the course of the week. At latest there will be several shoutouts on Sunday.

If you would like to participate in guild missions, or even want to do another run for the personal rewards, please message someone with the permission to start those. Espresso, Sling, or Neko will happily start the guild mission for you.

PvE

PvE guild missions are generally run by a variety of players including Neko.

PvP

PvP guild missions are generally run by Neko.

WvW

WvW guild missions are usually rather difficult with a small number of players, however easier missions such as dolyak escorts or camp and tower captures often find players via guild chat. Message any of the people with permission to kick off the mission regardless of whether they participate or not.

PvP Weekly Tournament

There is not fixed group for weekly PvP tournaments, however some people are known to participate when possible. Feel free to message Neko if you want to participate.

Services

Fuelled By Caffeine provides services for its members. This section details provided services, how to use them, and provides additional documentation.

Please remember that all services are governed by our Code of Conduct as well as external ToS where applicable.

Discord

For general communication a Discord server is available.

Mumble

For voice communication during raids, strikes, or other cooperative activities (or just to hang out) a Mumble server is available.

You can reach the server via the address nightowls.coffee and the default port (64738).

Mumble Client

The Mumble server and client are free and open source, and can be acquired via package managers (e.g. Chocolatey for Windows) as well as mumble.info.

Configuration

Server

You can hit the link at the top of the page which should open the corresponding dialogues, otherwise follow the following steps.

To add the server go to Server ⇒ Connect… to open the window (which should be open by default on starting the client). After that hit Add New… and enter the address nightowls.coffee, enter your preferred username, add it and then connect to it.

Certificates

If Mumble wants you to create a certificate, just click through it, and store the file you get (though it’s not really that important unless you use Mumble for more important things).

Noise Cancelling

Please do all of us a favour and at some point navigate to Settings ⇒ Audio Input ⇒ Audio Processing ⇒ Noise supression and set the algorithm to RNNoise. You (or rather your fellow players) will notice a significant reduction in background noise.

Getting Started

Whether you’re new to Guild Wars 2 entirely, or whether you just haven’t done some content yet; you may be confused. This is normal, and we’ve all been there. A game which has received updates and new stuff over the span of over a decade obviously has a ton of things going on. This section includes some minor guides to some mechanic that people often ask about, or which are important in general.

Wizard’s Vault and Astral Acclaim

You’ve hit level 80 with one of your chars, and have unlocked the Wizard’s Vault. You open the panel left of the trading post, and there are a lot of things going on. So what is it, and what to do with it?

Dailies, Weeklies, and Seasonal Objectives

The Wizard’s Vault objectives have three tabs; Daily, Weekly, and Season.

Least obvious of those are the seasonal objectives. Whenever a new expansion is released, or new content for an older expansion is released, or even when a festival is on, this has an objective. In general these award larger amounts of points, but are only once-per-season objectives. If you don’t have the latest expansion you may not be able to complete some of these, but that’s fine; no FOMO, all this means is your progress is a bit slower. Strictly speaking all of this is optional and you aren’t really missing out.

Weeklies and Dailies on the other hand are regular and generated from a list. This list is split into three separate sublists so to say, one each for PvE, WvW, and PvP. You can choose your preference using the cog icon in the top left of the panel. Your preference will determine from which lists your dailies and weeklies are chosen on the next daily/weekly reset.

Some things to keep in mind:

• it is better to choose objectives for something you end up doing so you don’t have to go out of your way
• you can choose multiple categories, if you run PvE and WvW but not PvP, you can choose both PvE and WvW to get mixed objectives
• PvE objectives are often spread far across Tyria
  • this may include content you do not have; e.g. fishing
• PvP objectives tend to be the fastest to complete, so if you like PvP those are a good choice
• both WvW and PvP dailies give reward track progress¹
  • PvE has no equivalent for this
• weekly chests yield a small amount of laurels which among other things can be used to buy T6 crafting materials

Astral Acclaim

When finishing any of the objectives you will receive Astral Acclaim. This is a currency with an upper bound, so make sure to spend them before hitting the limit. You can spend this on several things:

• the current and legacy cosmetics (such as skins or chairs)
• per-season limited rewards
• unlimited rewards

Of note here is that the per-season limited rewards refresh once per season, meaning it is highly recommended to buy those before the season ends.

What to buy?

The simple answer: whatever you want or need.

An opinionated list of important things to get are:

• the legendary weapon starter kit
• ascended gear
• mystic clovers
• mystic coins

Each of those are either very hard to farm, or time gated to begin with. Using your astral acclaim on those can save you a lot of trouble down the line. However, first and foremost get what you need and want. Something being hard to get just means it’s hard to get, not that you ultimately need to get it. You can also go for the skins or emotes first if those are more important to you.

1. Reward track progress via dailies has a caveat in that you get the progress when you collect the final daily chest. If you have not completed a WvW or PvP objectives when you redeem that chest, those are lost reward progress points. ↩

Code of Conduct

As a very small community we did not adopt a pre-existing code of conduct (CoC). Our one rule is Be Nice! (no drama/toxicity).