Gaming mouse or gaming keyboard?
Neither, to be honest.
Ironic response, as I have both. But my reasons are not related to them being gaming specific. The keyboard, which is a SideWinder X4, I got because it had dedicated media keys and it matched my previous mouse, the SideWinder X8. My mouse, the Zowie EC1 eVo, I got because of the shape and full rubber paint coating.
But putting that aside. Personally I don’t see any point in getting a gaming keyboard. The features that you get are either ill-designed (such as macro keys in bad places) or irrelevant (such as LCD monitors) or not required for an MMORPG (such as anti-ghosting). On the other hand, getting one of the many available MMORPG “optimized” mice like Logitech G600 or Razer Naga would make much more sense, since the keys are well-placed.
Most gaming mice sport ridiculously high DPI and good sensors. However, these mice are not aimed at MMORPG players, they’re aimed at FPS players. Most professional FPS players use low sensitivities, so their mice need to be able to handle high speeds, which isn’t something regular mice can do.
So really, most gaming mice, for an MMORPG player, are no different from a typical office-grade mouse. The exceptions being, of course, mice with lots of extra buttons.
Personally, I’ve tried my fair share of gaming mice (IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0, Razer Krait, Razer DeathAdder, SideWinder X8, EC1 eVo) and I’ve played my share of different genres of games (FPS, RPG, 3rd person shooter, RTS) and I’ve rarely found that the “gaming” qualities of my mice had any kind of tangible difference to performance. The only time I can say that I felt a difference in performance was with Razer mice because of their, in my opinion, extremely light mouse click. However, that was also the reason my DeathAdder died after less than a year of usage.
(edited by Olba.5376)
gaming mouse tbh, splits the job more even, what would you rather like the most?
clicking and trying to reach 20 buttons with one hand(gaming keyboard)
or
clicking and trying to reach 10 buttons with each hand(keyboard+gaming mouse)?
No offense, but this topic does not belong on the “suggestion” forum.
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I was leaning more toward the mouse myself just for the sole purpose of having strafing buttons on it.