Guild Wars 2

The enemy had attacked bay then left. Players drained supply repairing. I pulled the supply drop to get supply back into bay and promptly got yelled at in map chat for doing so. When do you all think supply drop should be used?

It can vary for certain areas. Bay can resupply very quickly, so if nobody is attacking you and everything was repaired, some might consider it wasteful because of the high cooldown. Sometimes people want to save it for when an enemy breaches the keep. Sometimes taking a few camps and escorting some yaks will help a lot more then pulling supply drop.

Used in these situations:

• keep/tower supply capacity is not yet full, but building siege to prepare for defense and there are 1 or 2 of us doing the work. Too time consuming to run it all from the camp. Use 100 supply, pull tactic and get 100 back. No loss and siege is built for defense.
• keep/tower is not yet full, map is quiet, so why not get the supply to capacity? But, also if not full and the opposition is sniping yaks and flipping camps to prevent or slow the upgrade. Pull tactic every time it is off cooldown so that supply builds in keep. Build siege to help with defense, or be more secure once you’ve built siege knowing you have supply to use in the defense/repair should it become necessary
• when the zerg has run thru and significantly drained the keep of supply
• when you need that supply to repair walls and your defending zerg has run off with the keep supply to hit another objective rather than repairing the walls/gates.
• always leave enough supply for several disablers to be used by yourself and others.

When NOT to pull tactivator:

• when supply is full (no benefit)
• when the supply is less than 100 from full (wasted supply).
• when it is evident keep will flip – no sense leaving opposition any more supply than necessary.

As for the person yelling at you for using that tactivator, prolly having a bad day. Because it makes total sense to me to fill as much supply as possible, by as many means as possible, so that it is there when the attack happens. Depending on yak supply is an iffy thing when the opposition is active on the map. 100 free supply every 15 minutes is an additional way to ensure you have supply you’ll need for disablers, repairs and building defensive siege.

Hope this helps.

I just pull it just to pull most of the time.

Supply is less then 100 Sup from full + tractivator off cooldown = Pull the lever.

The sooner you pull it the sooner it recharges