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 HekiLight folder
Copy HekiLight into World 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.