I love "gaming" mouses, I play mostly MMo (WoW, LotRO, now WAR and Aion) on my PC. I got the Logitech G5 then the steelseires WOW mouse then this, I might give comparison on these products.
Package and Physical looks
The package comes in a really nice box like other razer products (bought a razer headphone a while back), comes with bunch of papers that you probably don't need and some instruction manuals, no software included since you need to download it from the site. Physically the Naga looks and feels great (fits nicely on my hand) comes with a blue light that you can turn on and off, has a rubberish feel on top and 1~12 key pad buttons. The wire is a USB and its one of those that are tangle free just like those from Steelseries and G5. The mouse runs really prefect specially if you have those nice mouse pads.
The Buttons
All in all it has 17 buttons + wheel. the Mouse 4-5 (which is the side buttons not the 1~12 keypad) are placed weirdly since it requares you to use the pointy finger to press, on G5 and steelseries you use your thumb. The problem occurs when you want that pointy finger on the mouse 1 (left click) which you mostly use in MMO (example for pressing Run which requares you to press/hold mouse 1 and 2 together).
the 1~12 are the keypad on the right side, this is mapped on your 1 to = buttons on your keyboard. The 12 buttons are confusing at first (I still press the wrong one from time to time even after couple of weeks). They provided you with some "trainers" which is a 3m stickers that you place on top of the keys so they will have a distinct feel, basically a marker. 1~6 buttons are probably easy access stuffs 10~12 are still ok but requares you to move a bit.
Software
This is the sad part about this thing... Currently it doesn't have a software! It has the software but all it does is it changes the dpi, and blue light (on and off) and thats it! Not button binding, macro ect... I understand it's a tricky business for MMos when it comes to automation but with the likes if steelseries and even the G5 that has both customizable properties. On Razers side, they released these "addons" for the the games like WAR and WoW, Ive tried the Razer mod/addon for WAR and it works very simplistic the 1-12 skill from skill bar 1 will be on the grid. I had to redo my skill placement since I have to place them to skillbar one which sucks, if you play MMO the moment you change your keybinds to somewhere it just means that you need to get familiarized again!
If you want those keys with Alt+1, Atl+2, Ctrl+1... ect... they your out off luck the razer mod only does skill bar 1 and you figure out a way to make them fit in those bar.
VS other mouse
The Logitech G5 has few buttons but this thing works like a charm, all the buttons are easy to access and customizable with Setpoint software, Razer has the upper hand interms of number of buttons but like what I am saying it has problems. They both feel real good and nice on the hand.
VS steelseries WOW mouse, I really love the Wow mouse; the button placement are really simple and nonconfusing at all! My only problem was when I first used it was kinda big on the top so took me a while to get use to it. Naga has 17 buttons over 15 buttons on the steelseries. Software was WoW Themed eventhough I was playing WAR during those times (kinda annoys me a bit seeng that you can link your character portrait in it but you cant since your playing a diffrent game). Overall I like the WoW mouse over it since the buttons are really easy to rememmber/access thuse being accurate.
Conclution
This mouse is not that bad despite all the problems. I just really hope they will upgrade the software to something where you can bind your keys instead of getting stucks to key 1~=. I am currently playing Aion but that game doesnt support Mods so that means no razer mod (still works thought). I dont regret my purchase it's just I thought by this time the software whouldn't be as terrible.
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