ESO Guild Leadership
Running an Elder Scrolls Online guild is several jobs wearing one title. Someone has to fill the trial roster twice a week, decide which builds the content calls for, check that people show up wearing them, review the logs when a prog night stalls, and answer the same set questions in Discord every morning. Doing all of that by hand is how guild leaders burn out.
No single product covers it, and none of the good ones try. What experienced raid leads actually run is a small stack: a couple of websites, one or two in-game addons, and a few Discord bots, each doing one job well. This page walks through that stack, grouped by job, so you can see what each tool does and pick the ones that fit how your guild runs.
The most widely used event and signup bot on Discord, and the default backbone for MMO raid calendars. It posts an event as an embed, members sign up by clicking, and it handles recurring weekly runs, waitlists, timezones, and reminders. Custom templates let you build a class-and-role structure that fits a trial roster, so tanks, healers, and DPS each get their own slots.
The other big scheduler, with RSVP slots that mean something: custom sign-up groups, per-slot capacity, and waitlists that promote automatically when someone drops. Recurring events repost on schedule with a fresh list. Between Raid-Helper and Apollo it is mostly taste; both cover a weekly raid calendar well.
The broad reference site: a searchable database of sets, skills, and collectibles, plus guides, builds, and news. For a guild leader its everyday job is answering "what does this set do" with a link instead of a paragraph, and its build and guide sections give newer members somewhere solid to start.
The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages has been documenting Elder Scrolls games for decades, and its ESO build editor is the theorycrafter's notebook: assemble gear, skills, and champion points on a virtual character and it computes the resulting stats, then save the build and share it by link. Useful for settling "would this actually work" arguments before anyone farms a single piece.
A build site aimed squarely at endgame PvE: current tank and DPS builds for trials, with gear, skills, champion points, and rotations. Plenty of raid leads answer "what should I run" by linking a build page here rather than maintaining their own docs.
An ESOUI addon that exports a full snapshot of a character (gear with traits and enchantments, skill bars, champion points) as text from a single slash command, ready to paste into Discord. It turns "show me your setup" from a screenshot-squinting exercise into something officers can actually read, and it is the evidence format GearCheck reads natively for ESO.
This is our tool, so here is the plain version of what it does. A member submits their build as evidence in a Discord thread (a CharacterMarkdown export for ESO, or gear screenshots as a fallback), and GearCheck scores it against the build your officers set up, then hands staff a pass, review, or missing-requirement result. Officers set the standard and keep the final call; low-confidence results get flagged for a human instead of an automatic reject.
For ESO it imports builds straight from Hyperioxes, with the creator credited on the guild's public requirements page, so "run this build" and "check against this build" can be the same link. On the subscriber tier it also runs scheduling of its own (events with per-role signup slots, gear-readiness rosters, reminders) and can read Raid-Helper signups to show a readiness overlay next to the roster.
It checks the build a member is wearing, not their numbers on a log, so it sits beside ESO Logs rather than replacing it. Like everything else on this page, it is an independent community tool, not an official ESO product. There is more detail on how the check flow works on our Discord gear check bot page, and on ESO support specifically on our ESO page.
The combat-log site ESO raiding reviews itself on. Upload the encounter log from a trial night and you get per-pull breakdowns: damage and healing tables, death recaps, buff and debuff uptimes, and a timeline you can scrub through fight by fight. Guild pages collect every report in one place, so Thursday's wipes can be reviewed before Sunday's run. If your guild runs veteran content, someone in it already uses this.
The in-game companion to log review: an ESOUI addon that records your own fights and shows damage, healing, buff and debuff uptimes, and damage taken right after the pull. Members can check their own performance without leaving the game, which keeps "post your numbers" quick and keeps the deep-dive analysis where it belongs, on the logs.
Alongside the ESO-specific tools, most guild Discords run one general bot for moderation, reaction roles, welcome messages, and logging. Carl-bot, Dyno, and MEE6 are the usual picks; any one of them covers the housekeeping. If you want the Discord-bot side of the stack in more depth, we keep a separate rundown of the best Discord bots for ESO guilds.
Stack by job, and don't look for one tool to do everything:
Scheduling raid nights?
Raid-Helper or Apollo, or GearCheck's built-in events (subscriber tier) if you want signups and gear checks in one bot.
Deciding what everyone should run?
ESO-Hub for reference, Hyperioxes for endgame builds, UESP's build editor for theorycrafting your own.
Getting character data out of the game?
CharacterMarkdown.
Checking that members run the required build?
GearCheck.
Reviewing how the night went?
ESO Logs for the guild, Combat Metrics for each player in the moment.
Moderation and housekeeping?
Carl-bot, Dyno, or MEE6.
A working ESO guild stack is usually four or five of these, not one: a scheduler, a build reference, a log site, and something that checks readiness before the pull timer starts. Start with the job that costs your officers the most evenings, and add tools one at a time.