Inspect Vestige by LuckyRome13 (1.0.0)

Inspect Vestige
by LuckyRome13

AI disclosure: this addon’s code was written with Claude Code (an AI coding tool). I’m a professional software engineer: I have reviewed and verified the code, tested it in-game — including full two-account peer sync in a real group — and I understand what it does.

Have you ever had a groupmate instakill everything and leave you wondering what their build is? Or maybe you’ve been playing with a struggling friend, who wants some tips on how to improve their build. Inspect Vestige allows you to inspect another player’s character loadout in a single window — equipment, skill bars, attributes, core stats, slotted champion points, mundus stone, food/drink, and vampire/werewolf status. Similar in spirit to Destiny 2’s “Inspect Guardian”.

Everything is hoverable for its full in-game tooltip, so you can read a build the same way you read your own character sheet.

Required libraries — install these first

Inspect Vestige will not load without these, and addon managers do not install them for you. If the addon shows a missing-dependency warning on the AddOns screen, this is why.

LibGroupBroadcast — v2.0.0 or newer. This is the inspect-another-player feature. v2.x only; the 1.x API is different.
LibAddonMenu-2.0 — r38 or newer. The settings panel, and the only way to reach the privacy toggles. LibGroupBroadcast already requires it, so it comes along anyway.

Optional:

LibCustomMenu — adds the Inspect Vestige entry to your friends / guild / group right-click menus. Without it, the keybind and /iv @Account cover the same ground.

Important: what ESO actually allows

ESO is not Destiny 2. The game client never receives another player’s gear, skills, or attributes — ZeniMax deliberately withholds this, and there is no API to read it. A true “inspect anyone” addon is impossible in ESO. Please read this section before reporting that you cannot inspect someone.

Inspect Vestige works the only way it can: consensually, between players who both run the addon.

Yourself — full loadout, always.
A group member who also runs Inspect Vestige — full loadout.
A group member without the addon — basic public card only.
A friend or guildmate not in your group — basic public card only.
A stranger in the world — basic public card only.

The basic public card is everything ESO does expose about another player: name, class, race, alliance, level, and champion points.

Why group-only? The only sanctioned client-to-client data channel in ESO is the group channel (LibGroupBroadcast), and it reaches group members only. There is no equivalent channel for non-grouped friends. If you want to see a friend’s build, group up with them first.

It shows up instantly. The group channel is a slow trickle (~32 bytes/second), so a full build takes several seconds to transmit. To avoid making you wait, group members running the addon share their loadout proactively — on joining the group, and whenever they actually change gear, skills, champion points, attributes, or food — so their build is normally already cached before you ever inspect them.

Opening an inspect

Right-click a name in your friends / guild / group list, then Inspect Vestige (needs LibCustomMenu).
The hold-interact wheel when you walk up to a player in the world.
A keybind — Settings > Controls > Inspect reticle target.
/iv to inspect yourself, /iv @Account to inspect someone, /iv settings to open the options.

Press Esc or the X to close the window — it will not open the game menu while the window is up.

Features

Equipment laid out like the character sheet — armor on the left, jewelry and weapons on the right, with the game’s own silhouettes for empty slots. Real item icons and the true in-game item tooltip, including set bonuses and glyphs.
Set summary — hover the Equipment header for a per-set breakdown with front/back bar piece counts and an armor-weight tally (how many Light / Medium / Heavy).
Per-bar set counts on every gear tooltip, since ESO only counts your active bar’s weapons toward a set.
Skill bars with correct morphs, ultimates, and the target’s own skill rank. Werewolves get their transformation bar too.
Champion points — every slotted star, colour-coded by discipline (Warfare / Fitness / Craft), with the tooltip scaled to the target’s invested points rather than yours.
Core stats — Max Magicka / Stamina / Health, Spell & Weapon Damage, crit chance, crit damage, and penetration, with a Front / Back bar toggle.
Mundus, food/drink, and vampire/werewolf status, with live character-scaled tooltip numbers.

Privacy

Two toggles in the settings panel (/iv settings):

Share my loadout when asked (default: on) — respond when a group member running the addon inspects you. Turn this off and you neither answer inspect requests nor broadcast proactively; anyone inspecting you sees only your public card.
Share with friends only (default: off) — share only with group members on your friends list. Anyone else who inspects you is politely told you share with friends only, rather than being left waiting.

An honest note on “friends only”: ESO’s group channel physically delivers every message to the whole group — a message cannot be addressed to one player. So this setting marks the build for your friends and other copies of Inspect Vestige discard it. It is a convention between well-behaved addons, not encryption: someone running a modified addon could still read the data. If that matters to you, turn sharing off entirely. (With no friend in your group, nothing is sent at all.)

Known limitations

Skill tooltip numbers are your own. ESO computes ability tooltips from the viewer’s stats and offers no way to render them for another character. Morphs and ranks are always accurate; the magnitudes are relative to you. That is exactly why the Stats row exists — it gives you the target’s real scaling to read those skills against.
A player’s back bar is unknown until they weapon-swap at least once. ESO exposes no API for the inactive bar, so it is captured opportunistically on swap. It fills in on its own shortly after they swap.
Werewolf detection in human form matches the World skill-line name, which is English-only. Vampire detection and everything else are locale-independent.
English only for now.

Feedback

Bug reports and suggestions are welcome on the comments tab. If something looks wrong on another player’s build, please mention whether they were in your group and whether they also run the addon — that is almost always the deciding detail.