Visual inspection? Even with a Relic +1 and full DL I don't visually inspect anyone, I click on them and examine and look at the ilvl on all their gear as I've been doing since around level 20 when I found out you can examine... AF gear and AF+1 gear can look pretty similar, so I don't bother trying. Not to mention it's just nice to look at their non-visible gear.

I DF'd solo. At that point I had no FC, nor did I make any friends on my server as I planned on switching server eventually. The only piece of gear they had that I'd never seen before was a hoplite ring, which I soon found out I would receive the next day. Apart from that all the visible armor was ilvl50-55 and the rest of their accessories were all below 50 (either their earrings or necklace were in the 30's, but my memory isn't that good). They had a HQ belt but that was pretty low, too. Besides, this is the healer I'm talking about so their gear isn't that important in this dungeon.