HekiLight

HekiLight

What is HekiLight?

HekiLight is a lightweight World of Warcraft addon for Midnight (12.0+) that reads Blizzard's built-in Rotation Assistant and re-displays its spell suggestions as a movable, scalable icon strip — giving you the familiar Hekili-style overlay, powered entirely by Blizzard's own engine.

Enable it in Interface → Combat → Rotation Assistant, then let HekiLight show you what to cast and when.

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Features

• 🎯 Shows up to 5 spell icons from the rotation queue (default: 3, configurable)
• 🥇 First icon is always the currently highlighted suggestion — the spell to cast right now
• 🚫 Secondary slots automatically hide spells that are on cooldown
• 🙈 Ignore list — permanently hide specific spells from the secondary slots via the settings panel or /hkl ignore
• ⌨️ Displays the keybind for the primary spell (just like Hekili did)
• ⏱️ Cooldown spiral overlay on the primary icon
• 🔴 Pulsing out-of-range tint when the suggested spell can't reach your target
• ✨ Proc-glow border — pulses gold when the suggested spell has an active proc
• 📐 Movable and scalable — drag to reposition when unlocked
• 💾 Position and all settings persist across sessions
• 🗺️ Draggable minimap button — click to open the settings panel
• ⚙️ Full in-game settings panel (Interface → AddOns → HekiLight):
  • HekiLight — Appearance, Display, Minimap, Hide/Show conditions
  • Ignored Spells — manage your ignore list with a dropdown, Add, and Remove controls

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Installation

1. Download and unzip — you should get a HekiLight folder
2. Copy HekiLight into World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/
3. Enable the addon at the character select screen
4. In-game, enable Interface → Combat → Rotation Assistant
5. Enter combat — the icon strip appears automatically

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Slash Commands

Command	Description
/hkl	Show help
/hkl lock / /hkl unlock	Lock or unlock the display position
/hkl reset	Reset position to default
/hkl scale <0.2–3.0>	Set display scale
/hkl size <16–256>	Set icon size in pixels
/hkl suggestions <1–5>	Set number of icon slots
/hkl spacing <0–32>	Set pixel gap between icons
/hkl poll <seconds>	Set combat poll rate (default 0.05)
/hkl keybind on|off	Toggle keybind text
/hkl range on|off	Toggle out-of-range tint
/hkl procglow on|off	Toggle proc glow
/hkl sounds on|off	Toggle combat-entry sound
/hkl minimap on|off	Toggle minimap button
/hkl hide dead on|off	Toggle hide when dead
/hkl hide cinematic on|off	Toggle hide during cinematics
/hkl show combat on|off	Toggle show when in combat
/hkl show target on|off	Toggle show when target is attackable
/hkl ignore <spellID>	Hide a spell from secondary slots
/hkl unignore <spellID>	Restore a spell
/hkl ignorelist	List all ignored spells
/hkl status	Print Rotation Assistant state
/hkl debug	Toggle debug output

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Limitations

• Blizzard controls the rotation logic. Spell selection is determined by Blizzard's internal engine — HekiLight only reads and displays it. You cannot customise the APL or rotation order.
• Requires Blizzard's Rotation Assistant to be enabled in Interface options.

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Credits

HekiLight was inspired by Hekili — the beloved priority helper that guided countless players through their rotations. Hekili stopped working after the Midnight pre-patch removed the APIs it relied on for APL-based spell simulation.

HekiLight shares no code with Hekili. It is a new addon built from scratch on top of Blizzard's own C_AssistedCombat API, introduced in Midnight 12.0.

Thank you to the Hekili team for years of excellent work. This addon exists because of the gap they left.

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Bugs & Feedback

Please report issues and suggestions on the GitHub Issues page.