I know from trial that overall group gear score has an effect on everyone in the group, for example 4 people at 625 with 1 person at 600 will bring the damage output down and damage received up. (correct me if im wrong as ive not heard officially how that works)
Does the same scaling occur with the group overall warded gear stats; Like above if one person had no ward gear while everyone else is filly warded, would that cause everyone to take more damage?
are you sure there is no scaling happening in groups?
when our company was doing mutations and before we were checking gear scores making ppl link gear, we noticed a trend that if we were taking more damage and generally not performing well, when we check the one or two pug members they were usually under geared.
When we notice this happening in mutation and ask some people to show gear sometimes they would not show us, those people we kicked and got replacements.
So we assumed there was some kind of overall group scaling but dont know officially, cant really find any official information on this specific topic, or even non-official except your reply here.