no, its not allowed and Bethel wrote in Advice chat that the Group was punished accordingly. For Scales, normaly you just hit the Dragon to tag it and you should get scales even without the need to be in bg or group. Would be nice to know how "they" prevented the bg from getting scales, ma...

like title, champion weapon resist buff works without active weapon.
Hibernia, Warden, Char: Hermann

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