Advanced Highlighted Assist

Advanced Highlighted Assist (AHA) expands Blizzard’s Assisted Combat and Cooldown Manager systems with a customizable recommendation layer built around your own priorities.

AHA keeps Blizzard’s recommended rotation at the center of the experience while allowing you to add abilities, defensives, interrupts, crowd control, consumables, trinkets, and utility that the default recommendation may not account for.

It does not replace Blizzard’s rotation engine. It builds on top of it.

Features

Custom Rotation Priorities

Create a priority list for each specialization using:

Spells
Items
Trinkets
Potions
Flasks
Temporary weapon enchants
Other usable consumables

Reorder entries through the visual Priority Builder and decide exactly where each recommendation belongs.

Blizzard Assisted Combat Integration

AHA uses Blizzard’s Assisted Combat recommendation as the foundation of the main display.

Your custom priority entries can appear ahead of Blizzard’s recommendation when their configured requirements are met. When no custom entry qualifies, Blizzard’s normal recommendation remains visible.

Priority Builder

Manage each specialization through a drag-and-drop interface.

Entries can be organized into:

Rotation Priority
Personal Defensive
Group Defensive / Utility
Interrupt
Control / Disruption

You can also ignore Blizzard recommendations that you do not want appearing in the rotation queue.

Conditional Recommendations

Each priority entry can be configured with content and gameplay requirements.

Available conditions include:

Anywhere
Mythic+ before or during a run
Raid only
Mythic+ or raid
Instanced PvE, including dungeons, raids, and Delves
Boss targets only
Require a valid target
Require the target to be in range
Require an assigned aura to be present
Require an assigned aura to be missing
Hide after the ability has been cast on the current target

Conditions can be combined to create recommendations for specific encounters, content types, buffs, targets, and situations.

Consumable and Maintenance Reminders

Item entries support specialized maintenance conditions for:

Applied item buffs
Flasks
Potions
Main-hand temporary enchants
Off-hand temporary enchants
Weapon oils
Sharpening stones
Other item-based buffs

Consumable recommendations automatically hide when none of the selected item remains in your inventory.

Mythic+ conditions also recognize the preparation period after a keystone has been inserted, allowing pre-run flask and weapon-buff reminders to appear before the timer begins.

Optional Utility Lanes

AHA can display separate standalone recommendation boxes for:

Personal defensives
Group defensives and utility
Interrupts
Crowd control and disruption

Utility lanes can be placed beneath or beside the main recommendation.

These lanes are optional and are intended primarily for players who do not already display the equivalent Blizzard Cooldown Manager viewers.

Native Cooldown Feedback

Custom recommendations display Blizzard-style cooldown and global-cooldown clock sweeps.

This preserves the visual feedback normally shown on action buttons, making it clear when an ability is recommended but still waiting for the global cooldown or its own cooldown to finish.

The sweep uses Blizzard’s native cooldown timing and does not depend on a custom SpellQueueWindow setting.

Keybind Overlays

Display action-bar keybinds directly on recommendation icons.

Keybind text can be:

Enabled or disabled
Resized
Repositioned
Displayed separately for the main recommendation and utility lanes

Display and Positioning Controls

AHA integrates with Blizzard Edit Mode and supports:

Custom recommendation size
Custom utility-lane size
Manual positioning
Snapping above Essential Cooldowns
Always-visible mode
Target-only visibility
Combat-only visibility
Mounted-state hiding
Vehicle and pet-battle hiding
Healer-role hiding

Profiles and Sharing

Create multiple addon profiles for different characters, layouts, or playstyles.

AHA supports:

Full profile import and export
Per-specialization import and export
Shareable priority configurations
Saved Edit Mode positions
Saved display and layout settings

Import handling also supports strings copied through chat applications, code blocks, quotation marks, wrapped text, and other common formatting.

Philosophy

Advanced Highlighted Assist is designed to enhance Blizzard’s Assisted Combat system rather than replace it with a separate rotation simulator.

Blizzard continues to provide the core rotational recommendation. AHA gives you control over the information surrounding it, including abilities, consumables, defensives, interrupts, encounter requirements, and personal priorities that the default system may not represent.

The goal is a recommendation display that remains familiar, responsive, lightweight, and flexible enough to fit the way you actually play.

Commands

Use /aha to open the AHA settings.

Use /cdm to open Blizzard’s Cooldown Manager.

Short Description

Advanced Highlighted Assist expands Blizzard’s Assisted Combat and Cooldown Manager with customizable spell and item priorities, conditional recommendations, utility lanes, keybinds, profiles, and shareable specialization setups.