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Officers define the build once.
In the dashboard, you set the sets, slots, traits, skills, and other requirements that matter for a role, trial, or progression team. These live in a pack you own and can edit any time.
Discord Gear Check Bot
What a Discord gear check bot does
A Discord gear check bot answers one question your officers ask before every raid night: is this member actually running the build you asked for? A member submits their gear as evidence inside a Discord thread, the bot reads it and scores it against the build your officers set up, and your staff get a clean pass, review, or missing-requirement result instead of squinting at screenshots by hand.
GearCheck is that kind of bot. It's a readiness helper, not gear police: your officers set the bar, and the bot does the checking so nobody has to eyeball forty tooltips before a trial.
How a gear check runs, step by step
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A member submits evidence.
In Discord, they start a check and hand over their build: a character export they paste in, or gear screenshots they upload.
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The bot reads and scores it.
GearCheck extracts the build data, matches it against your spec, and returns a score with a per-line breakdown of what matched, what's missing, and what needs a human look.
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Officers review and decide.
Clear passes resolve on their own; anything low-confidence or partial gets flagged for a human look. The standard stays yours.
Every check is saved, so officers can look back at what a member submitted and why a result was flagged.
What counts as evidence
Different guilds prove builds different ways, so GearCheck takes more than one kind of evidence:
Character exports (the clean path). For Elder Scrolls Online, a member pastes a CharacterMarkdown export from the in-game addon. It carries the gear, skill bars, stats, and Champion Points in text, so the read is reliable.
Screenshots (the fallback). If an export isn't available, members upload gear screenshots and the bot reads them with OCR. Handy for console players and odd cases, and always reviewable by staff.
Manual review (the safety valve). When a requirement needs officer judgment, the submission can be routed to a person instead of forced into an automatic pass or fail.
Officers own the standard
The point of a gear check bot isn't to shame anyone. It's to take the busywork out of a check your officers already run. GearCheck keeps the humans in charge:
You set the rules.
Requirements can be strict, loose, or "bonus if you have it," per build and per category.
You keep the final call.
An odd build gets flagged for a person to look at, not an automatic rejection.
You configure it to your guild.
Packs, builds, thresholds, and notes are yours to tune, so the bot matches your local standards rather than someone else's.
Elder Scrolls Online
For Elder Scrolls Online guilds
ESO is the game GearCheck is built out for right now. On top of the flow above, ESO guilds get:
ESO-aware build rules for sets, equipment slots, traits, quality, skills, Champion Points, stats, Mundus, race, and class.
CharacterMarkdown as the preferred evidence path, with TONL exports for deeper diagnostics and screenshots as a fallback.
Build import from Hyperioxes. An officer can paste a Hyperioxes build-guide link (or search by keyword) and GearCheck turns that page's gear, skills, and Champion Points into an editable build spec. Every imported build keeps the creator's name and a link back to the source, shown in the editor and on the guild's public requirements page.
Curated starter packs under GearCheck's own banner. On the subscriber tier a guild can install these instead of starting from a blank editor.
Where it fits with your other bots
Gear checking and scheduling are different jobs, and GearCheck does both. On the subscriber tier it ships its own event scheduling: events with per-role signup slots, gear-readiness rosters that check the signup list against verified builds, reminders, and a subscribable calendar feed, so a guild that wants one bot can run the whole raid night from it. And if your guild already lives on another event bot, that works too: GearCheck can read your RaidHelper signups and post a readiness overlay next to them, and it can hand verified members their Discord roles automatically, with your staff in control of the rules.
What it doesn't do
Being straight about the edges:
It isn't a parse checker. GearCheck reads the build a member is wearing, not their DPS on a log. If you want performance-based roles from ESO Logs, that's a different tool.
It isn't an official ESO or ZeniMax product. It's an independent community bot that reads addon exports and screenshots members choose to submit.
It doesn't grade anyone in public by default. Results run through your staff workflow, not a leaderboard.
Common questions
Is it free?
There's a free tier with the build editor, public requirements pages, and gear checks that score what members submit and flag what needs a look. The subscriber tier adds the staff review queue for approvals and overrides, auto-roles, RaidHelper readiness, analytics, and the other integrations.
Which games work today?
Elder Scrolls Online is the current focus. New World is supported too, and the engine is multi-game under the hood, so more games can be added as manifests.
Do members need an addon?
For the cleanest ESO checks, yes: CharacterMarkdown is a free in-game addon that produces the export GearCheck reads. Members without it can upload screenshots instead.
What happens to submitted screenshots?
The bot processes the gear evidence a member submits and the Discord IDs needed to run and review the check. Results are visible to your guild's staff for the review workflow. See the privacy page for the full write-up.
Add GearCheck to your guild
Invite the bot, create a game pack, and set the requirements your guild already checks by hand. Officers get the review workflow; members get a clear answer.