Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Razer Naga

So after much research and some skepticism I decided to pick one of these bad boys up. I figure $53 bucks and a 30 day return policy isn't too shabby to test out some new hardware since my Steelseries mouse was starting to wear out anyway.

First Impressions:
I got the thing home and unboxed it and had it installed within ~5 minutes. Install was simple and straight forward, updating the firmware was kind of annoying because my case is huge and you've gotta unplug it then hold Left, Right and Middle down while plugging it back in to boot into the firmware update mode of the mouse.

The feel of this thing is absolutely incredible, it's taking some getting used to given the switch from the WoW Steelseries beast, to this smaller more reserved shape. It glides across my mousepad effortlessly and has very good balance and weight compared to the Steelseries mouse. I used to play FPS (Counter-Strike specifically) competitively so it's something I tend to pick up on and appreciate greatly.

I have a very static UI that I spend hours upon hours putting together and I absolutely love it, after about 15 minutes of tweaking around I was able to replace bartender in my UI package with the Naga addon which is built off of Dominos, my UI typically doesn't have any of my action bars except my consumables/mounts visible so I've got the Naga UI bars visible to get myself a bit more associated visually with the button layout.

All in all I'm pretty impressed with the mouse so far, they claim it takes an average of 18hrs of playtime to get fully accustomed to using the mouse but I must say in the 2 hours so far in tonight's raid I've been slowly mixing in using the mouse along with my old keybindings and I'm slowy shifting the balance over to the mouse and noticing a lot more maneuverability and quicker reaction on a lot of what I'm doing (I'm a tank so).

I'll give a more in depth review later in the week once I've had more time to play with it.

Saronus Out.

Also read the full review over at World of Raids.

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