Understanding Gear Score

What Is This?

This tool shows the average item level of players during a raid using data from Warcraft Logs. It’s meant to help us improve, not judge.

I’m just a mage — I don’t know every class’s BiS list. This tool relies entirely on public APIs, not personal opinion. It’s about sparking conversations and supporting each other’s progress, not policing anyone's gear.

Gear is both an individual and team factor. Better gear contributes not just to personal output, but to raid pace, healing pressure, uptime, and survivability. Let’s use this to learn and collaborate more effectively.

How Gear Score Is Calculated

The gear score is the average of 15 specific item levels worn during a raid log, provided by Warcraft Logs.

Player: Coolwarrior
Raid: Blackwing Lair
Slots Counted: 15

Head: 83   Neck: 76   Shoulder: 83
Back: 76   Chest: 83   Wrist: 76
Hands: 68   Waist: 76   Legs: 83
Feet: 70   Ring: 76   Trinket: 66
Main-hand: 83   Off-hand: 66   Ranged: 66

Average Gear Score: 75.1

Visual Example of the Math

66 + 64 + 68 + 62 + 70 + 65 + 63 + 67 + 69 + 68 + 74 + 66 + 58 + 65 + 66 = 981
981 ÷ 15 = 65.4

Slots like shirt, tabard, ammo, or relics are excluded to prevent skewing.

Included & Excluded Slots

Tracked (15 slots)

Not Counted

This differs from Classic Armory, which may show gear not worn in the log or weight slots differently.

Manual Thresholds Per Raid

These ranges provide context for what’s considered low, mid, or high gear for each raid tier:

These are guidelines, not strict cutoffs.

Why Gear Score Isn’t Everything

Gear score gives a starting point, not a final say.

Multiple Roles

If a player appears more than once (e.g. as tank and DPS), it's because they swapped roles/gear within one log.

⚠️ Multi-role this raid

Want to Improve?

You can also check healing, DPS, deaths, uptime, and more in the logs for full performance context:

View raid logs here

Summary

I’ll post updated snapshots with new raid logs each week.