Frequently Asked Questions
These are the most commonly asked questions and issues experienced by users
| Category | Question / Issue |
|---|---|
| Rotation / Performance | - I don't recognize this icon, what is it? - I feel like X Spec damage is low, anyone else? - My cooldowns or trinkets don't show up! - The rotation is wrong! - The addon doesn't tell me how to heal people! - The addon isn't working very well while levelling - How do I reset my spec / APL / Profile - Does X dps spec work good? - Fire mage bad?? |
| UI / Display | - My keybinds are wrong! - How do I change the icon for a spell - What's up with SpellFlash? What about changing the flash texture? |
| Configuration / Customization | - What are the recommended settings for X? How do I make it more efficient or faster? |
| Custom Rotation/Priority | - How do I import a profile from SIMC / Raidbots / Some YouTuber - How do I make it so X ability does Y? - How do I make a specific opener? |
| Development / Technical | - Vanilla classic / SoM / SoD? - Wrath classic? - PTR when? - I downgraded to fix an issue, what now? - Addon CPU Usage says Hekili is using 60% of my CPU! -Automation / Clickable weakaura? |
Tip
Click a question / issue to reveal the answer!
Don't see your question here? Ask in our Discord!
I don't recognize this icon, what is it?
- 95% of the time it is a trinket or the mage water elemental pet spell Freeze
- You can pause Hekili with
alt-shift-pand mouseover the recommendation to see the name of it. Don't forget to unpause (using the same keybind).
I feel like X Spec damage is low, anyone else?
Before posting in Discord or a Github issue, ask yourself these questions:
- Did you read this FAQ and the Configuration Guide?
- Are your cooldowns enabled?
- Are you running a custom priority?
- Do you actually have gear?
- Do you have logs, details meters, snapshots?
If you answered yes to all of these, ask in our discord!
My cooldowns or trinkets don't show up!
You probably have your cooldowns disabled, as this is the default setting.
- Try enabling them with one of the following methods
- The toggle hotkey (
alt-shift-rby default) - Right click the minimap icon for Hekili and select the cooldowns from there
- The toggle hotkey (
The rotation is wrong!
If you think there is an issue with the rotation, you should do the following
- Visit Report an issue
- Submit a ticket with references to Sims, class guides, logs, snapshots, etc, and explain what exactly the issue is
- Instead of trying to fix it for yourself via custom priority, submitting a ticket will get it fixed for everyone as well as ensure peer review. There are a lot of skilled and knowledgeable players in the discord of many specs/classes.
The addon doesn't tell me how to heal people!
This addon is to help you do max damage as a healer during downtime or world content. Not to help you heal.
The addon isn't working very well while levelling
The addon is not intended for lower levels. It may or may not work with a great deal of variance between specs/classes.
How do I reset my spec / APL / Profile
Does X dps spec work good?
YesExcept maybe Fire Mage. See the Spec tier list for more thoughts, but don't put too much weight into it. Play what you want to play.
Fire mage bad??
Fire Mage presents a unique problem for the addon to solve. Fire Mages can cast Fire Blast while casting other spells, and need to react quickly to critical strike streaks (for Heating Up and Hot Streak). Regarding casting while casting, this means that some of the shortcuts the addon takes for other classes are not available, because we have to potentially time a Fire Blast based on when a critical strike is anticipated to happen during your current cast.
This addon will predict guaranteed critical strikes, but most are not guaranteed, so all the addon (and you, yourself) can do is react once the critical strikes occur. This can cause recommendations to change suddenly when your Fireball or Pyroblast or other projectile spells impact your target and crit.
Because of this volatility, showing a large number (4+) of recommendations is counterproductive as your Hot Streak is likely to have changed within 2 or 3 GCDs under most circumstances. You may find the addon more efficient by downgrading your Primary display to show 1 or 2 suggestions.
Another trick that can help with managing Fire Blast is to put Fire Blast on one of the main toggles (/hek > Abilities > Fire Blast > Require Toggle: Cooldowns, Interrupts, or Defensives). Assuming you selected Interrupts, you can set the Interrupts to Show Separately (/hek > Toggles), then Fire Blast will pop-up in that display instead of refreshing inside the Primary display. This adds some stability to recommendations.
My keybinds aren't showing up correctly
Keybind detection relies on action bars being configured similar to Blizzard defaults. That means if you have used action bar pages in a strange order, have abilities duplicated on hidden bars, or even use a bar addon that is not supported, the addon may not detect the correct keybinding. There is currently a Blizzard issue with macro detection that often impacts keybinding detection.
- Reset your actionbars
- You can go to
/hek>Abilitiesand set Override Keybind Text to the correct keybind to be displayed.
How do I change the icon for a spell
In the addon, Navigate to the Abilities page, select the ability from the dropdown, and mouseover the Icon Replacement box for instructions.
What's up with Spellflash?
SpellFlash is a separate addon that has another owner and maintainer. It is included in this addon because of the popularity of its functionality, but I am at the mercy of that project's owners with regard to how well its functionality works. When Blizzard makes a breaking update, such as breaking macro detection, then SpellFlash may stop flashing on macros. When that happens, then we must wait for SpellFlash to update and resolve the problem.
Can I modify the Spellflash Texture?
SpellFlash sets up a single texture per action button, so this addon can allow you to pick the flash texture for all displays, but all displays will share that same texture. If you need to distinguish display flashes from one another, you can use texture size or color to make that distinction.
Demo Expansion copy/paste
Beep Boop