Problem before product
Write down the one job your guild needs now
A long feature list can hide a weak fit. Ask what currently breaks: repeated lookups, noisy notifications, lost event signups, conflicting spawn bookings, or an operations record that nobody can review. Pick one problem and one workflow for the first week.
Tibia already provides useful foundations. Tibia’s Team Finder assembles short-lived teams for hunts, quests, and bosses. Tibia Guild Events let leaders and vice leaders publish dated guild or public events. A Discord bot should complement those official tools, not pretend they do not exist.
Category fit
Shortlist the workflow category, not the loudest homepage
Lookup and game-information bots
Useful when members mainly need character, guild, item, monster, house, wiki, or online-list answers inside chat.
Notification bots
Useful for level, death, and boosted-creature notifications when the team wants awareness rather than a shared operational ledger.
Planning and utility bots
Useful for loot calculations, boss timers, event and roster planning, nickname sync, or other focused daily conveniences.
Coordination systems
Useful when spawn claims, queues, and shared schedules must agree across members, administrators, web, commands, and Discord updates.
War or hunted-character monitoring
Higher-risk monitoring needs a factual purpose, smallest necessary audience, correction route, explicit destination, retention decision, and a test that never targets an unconsenting stranger.
Choose Dominando only when your team needs one shared operational record across web and Discord for group-scoped claims, queues, events, transfer review, or governed hunting cases. Review the implemented Dominando capability map and command reference before installation.
Dominando does not provide loot splitting, boss cooldown timers, or automatic nickname sync. If one of those is the actual problem, choose a product that implements it and evaluate that narrower workflow honestly.
Permission review
Read the Discord authorization prompt line by line
Discord separates OAuth2 scopes and bot permissions. Ask why the app needs each scope, server permission, and channel overwrite. Do not grant Administrator merely to avoid configuring narrower access.
Install the shortlist in a quiet test server first. Verify what members can see, which commands are private, which channels the bot can post into, whether it can manage roles or channels, and what changes when a permission is removed.
For Dominando, manual installation uses message and command permissions. Automatic four-channel setup separately requests Manage Channels and still runs only after an owner or administrator invokes setup. Read the purpose-specific setup guide before granting that optional capability.
Data and authority
Check what the bot stores and who can change it
Read the product’s privacy notice. Identify the operator, data sources, hosting, retention, processors, access controls, and a working correction and deletion route. A public character name is not a free pass: public character data can still become personal data when it is assembled into profiles, histories, or monitoring cases.
Ask whether group and guild authorization is enforced by the service, not only hidden in a web page. Check whether Discord server permissions can accidentally replace the product’s own owner, administrator, or member rules.
Keep community tools separate from official authority. A bot can improve visibility and hand-offs, but it cannot grant a spawn, bind outsiders, prove physical occupancy, or replace CipSoft’s rules. Dominando documents its current handling in the Privacy Policy.
Failure and exit
Test the boring failure before trusting the exciting demo
Temporarily remove message access, rename a test channel, submit a duplicate action, and inspect a stale button or old link. The product should fail clearly, preserve authoritative state, and avoid a silent fallback into an unrelated channel or server.
Ask for an export or exit path: how to disable a workflow, remove the app, delete stored data, retain an audit trail where justified, or return to the previous process. A tool that is hard to leave is expensive even when its monthly price is zero.
Activation evidence
Run one real workflow for seven days
Installation is not adoption. Write one success condition before the pilot: one real claim, event, or operations review completed by the intended people with less confusion and no permission leak.
- Assign one organiser and one backup owner.
- Publish the workflow rule and correction route before inviting participants.
- Complete the workflow from both an administrator and ordinary-member perspective.
- Record setup time, failed attempts, manual cleanup, participant questions, and the final outcome.
- Keep, change, or remove the tool based on evidence—not the length of its feature list.
For Dominando, the long-term signal is useful 30-day activity in a linked group, not the number of servers where somebody authorized the bot. Start with the one-workflow channel planner, install only when the owner understands the route, or request a guided pilot.
Tibia Discord bot selection questions
Should one bot do everything?
Not necessarily. Prefer the smallest understandable set of tools that solves real workflows without duplicated state or excessive permissions.
Is a free bot automatically the best value?
No. Include setup time, moderation, failure recovery, data handling, support, and exit cost in the decision.
Does a Discord bot replace Tibia tools?
No. Team Finder, Guild Events, live party state, character pages, and the game itself remain authoritative for their own functions.
When should we expand after the pilot?
Only after the first workflow has an owner, a clear rule, a correction path, and repeatable evidence that members actually use it.
Current category sources
Reviewed 14 August 2026. These links show how products currently describe themselves; inclusion is not a ranking, endorsement, or complete market inventory.
- NabBot in Discord’s App Directory: lookup, linking, announcements, events, watchlists, roles, and information commands.
- ExivaBOT: nickname sync, boosted notifications, loot splitting, level changes, events, and blacklist features.
- LemonBot: enemy, ally, death, activity, and war-oriented monitoring.
One problem · One owner · One week
Choose the workflow before the app
If connected claims, queues, events, or governed operations are the real need, review Dominando’s exact behavior and test one group without pretending installation is success.