HekiLight
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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.
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
Installation
- Download and unzip — you should get a
HekiLightfolder - Copy
HekiLightintoWorld of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/ - Enable the addon at the character select screen
- In-game, enable Interface → Combat → Rotation Assistant
- Enter combat — the icon strip appears automatically
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 |
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.
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.
Bugs & Feedback
Please report issues and suggestions on the GitHub Issues page.
The HekiLight Team
