So; Cooldown helper being in the game is great. I love it. I also love my Hekili though. I study my prio’s CD’s every patch but it’s undeniably a great tool to show the keybind in which my next “optimal” spell is. Does Blizzard have intentions to “Ban” for using things like hekili in the future? Have they spoken about it? I don’t want to use an addon that’s going to get my 18 year account flagged/at risk.
Blizz is far more likely to just break Hekili than actually ban people for using it. That’s typically how they handle addons they dont want people to use
Although, I would be surpised if they even do that
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If it runs in the addons folder entirely without external programs, and it isn’t used for any chat, you’re fine.
If it doesn’t run in the addons folder or uses an external download as well, that’s a problem.
If it is an addon, but interacts with chat, whatever it outputs into chat is still subject to chat rules and you are the one who is going to be held accountable. That means anything that spams chat, vulgar/deragatory language, advertisements, etc.
If they want to get rid of Hekili, they can kill whatever API feature it relies on and it will either stop functioning, or become a cascade of errors and not function.
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both of you are awesome; thanks for breaking that down. I really appreciate it; and the explanation.
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If they remove addon’s access to the combat log (which they likely will), hekili and similar addons won’t really function anymore.
Correct - I guess im just really interested to see the rollout and what will/will-not be acceptable. The way I look at Hekili is simply their CD Helper from Blizz UI but just happens to be smoother when switching classes/specs and showing keybinds.
Regardless, all of you have given awesome answers. I appreciate it very much not getting flamed lol.
Hekili will get more regular and correct updates than the Blizzard one too. I’m sure their rotation helper will be correct in 11.2 and maybe in 12.0. I’d bet a crate of gold on it being wrong in 12.2.
Unfortunately they are leaning into the hekili-fication of the game while removing the existing difficulty
I wouldn’t be sure of their rotation helper being correct at all. Blizzard does not seem to acknowledge optimal class gameplay or itemization (see survival hunter wanting their S3 tier set pieces over S4 ones in DF).
You are so cute! I hope not only that any addon you like keeps working forever but also that you get 10000000 gold 
Hekili doesn’t need to parse the combat log to tell you which spells to use.
Blizzard isn’t going to fix things in game because that costs time and money when they can rely on addons to fix them for free.