Is there any good reason to ever be in a group with other people?
This is a serious question.
Do you have the chance for better crown/material drops?
Grouping
Yeah, but they always seem to be the reason I die in the first place.
I do less damage, and take more when other people are there.
duh monsters are stronger the more players there are
Monster scaling is (normally) done in a way that the more good players are involved the easier it is, plus the fact that multiple players means you don't have every single enemy focused on you. Unfortunately, the problem stems from when you have random players join that really don't seem to know what they are doing. Then they die, but not once or twice (because that's understandable even for good players) but die repeatedly, over and over because they haven't yet quite grasped the concept of shielding or dodging.
This then kinda leaves you in one of two situations. You either revive them, reducing the margin of error you are personally allowed, or you leave them in order to deal with the immediate threat, which results in you trying to take on stronger monsters without actual backup.
There is a major difference when you end up in a good group than a bad group. Like, good players make even T3 arenas and pretty much any boss fight easier than going it alone and that's something I'd prefer, but then bad players just make it a lot harder.
sometimesi g et rly pro players, if not, i just go solo and wait 4 people to join
a good reason to group is simple: they can revive u with health rather than u using energy to revive