It’s funny because I remember my eye doctor asking me if I had dry eye… and I was like I don’t know. How can you know if you have something if you don’t know what the symptoms are? It’s the feeling that you have something in your eye(s) even when you don’t. Dry eye can also lead to conjunctivitis (read: pink eye) as well which is pretty gross.

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Ackis Recipe List – gives me another way to see what recipes I can still get for my different professions.
AuctionMaster – Smaller than Auctioneer and has everything I need to be able to scan and sell stuff.
AtlasLoot – Game loot lookup.
Bartender4 – action bars.
Bison – Allows me to change the placement and arrangement of my buffs and debuffs.
Butsu – Cooler loot frame, with no pages.
ButtonFacade – skins buttons.
Cartographer – World map replacement.
Chatter – Chat Mod.
Chinchilla – Very nice minimap mod.
Doom_CooldownPulse – Pops up an icon in the middle of my screen when a CD is up.
FlightHud – shows pitch while swimming or flying.
Gatherer – for mining on my alt.
GnakedGnome – for checking your gearz.
GroupCalendar – Replacement calendar that syncs with my guild raid announcements.
Historian – Strictly for keeping track, on tooltips, how many of a certain mob I have killed before the, say Dark Whelpling, drops.
LootDB – Places where something came from in the item tip.
LiveDamage (Not shown) – gives me a real time text readout of my sp, so I can see how it is affected by procs.
Quartz – Moves my casting bars around.
QuestGuru – I like the quest tracker and extra sounds this one has.
QuestHelper – Puts icons on my map, so I know where to find things for quests. Another side note: I was 70 before I started using this. It would have made leveling much easier, but I could see how it might be considered cheating
Outfitter – Automatically switches between outfits, like when I enter a battleground.
Overachiever, Talented and TradeskillHD – Augments the ingame pages for these.
Pitbull unitframes (Not shown)– I use Pitbull for player, target and party frames.
SLData Text – Allows for the information that I want to be displayed (fps, latency, gold, and more) anywhere I want. Not on my minimap. As a side note. The minimap is what started this whole journey really. As I added mods my minimap got cluttered, which led to FuBar, Chinchilla, etc.
SCT – Scrolling combat text. Allows me to move and configure what and how combat information is displayed.
SunnArt – Allows to modify the rendered 3D area of the screen without losing any visibility.
TipTac – Allows for custom tip placement and looks cool.
The Collector – toggles a window that shows me what mounts, pets and titles I can still get. Very cool for collectors.
VendorBait – Surrounds the most expensive loot reward.

And of course:
Fubar
AltasLootFu
FuBar_Auto_LootFu
FuBar_BagFu
FuBar_DurabilityFu
FuBar_FishingBuddyFu (with FishingBuddy)
FuBar_FishingFu
FuBar_MicroMenuFu
FuBar_PortalFu
FuBar_ReagentFu
FuBar_RecountFu
FuBar_uFriends
FuBar_uGuild

Raid UI

DBM – Deadly Boss Mods is a must for the raids. For FuBar users, don’t use FubBar plugin for DBM. It pooches the options for dbm. I wasn’t able to get rid of the minimap icon until I uninstalled that plugin.
DrDamage – For theorycrafting, displays damage information on tooltips and buttons. I haven’t decided if I need it.
Grid – Replacement for the raid and party frames. It is configurable (once you muddle through all of the options) and allows me to click on any raid member. It is all I need.
Omen – threat meter.
Recount – To check my DPS. And go ahead and announce it to the raid, if it is high enough . It usually is, now.

“WOW MADE ME GO BLIND!! AHHH!!!”

Nothing beats hearing the tapping sound of a warlock to understand why their health is dropping so fast.

I moved my player/target/ToT/party frames down to the bottom so they’re near my buttons, and tend to keep non-crucial information like my quest and achievement progress in the place my frames used to be. My eyes are much happier now.

For my healer UI, I have Grid on one side of my screen, next to an enlarged player frame, and next to a small action bar which contains all my long-cooldown abilities and items. My DBM bars are above this cluster and my PowerAuras are below it. This means I can focus on one area of the screen. In fact if I blacked out the rest of my UI I’d still be fine. Less eye movement, less mouse movement, quicker response times, better efficiency.

It was my own cases of eyestrain and wrist strain that brought upon this epiphany, but I encourage others to learn the lesson before causing repetitive stress injuries!

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