Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

Been strongly considering buying a gaming mouse for to play GW2 with. I have small hands lol and it would be nice if i could have all the necessary buttons with in reach of my midget fingers. I wasnt sure where to post this topic but it is related to GW2 as I would be purchasing a gaming mouse for this game. Can anyone recommend a solid gaming mouse to enhance my GW2 experience.

Thanks in advance!

Or would a gamepad be a better option?

Definitely not a gamepad. Try a Razer Naga mouse. In all honestly i cant possibly fathom how can anyone play this game with out something like that.

Logitech g600 is great.

I control my whole skill bar(including f1-f4) and my weapon swap with it.

I’ve been using a Razer Naga for about 4 years now – I also have fairly small hands and the size is perfect.

thanks for the input, I just ordered a razer naga, and new mouse pad. Tired of mine sliding all the time. Gonna be epic!

eugenstash.8610:

thanks for the input, I just ordered a razer naga, and new mouse pad. Tired of mine sliding all the time. Gonna be epic!

Excellent choice! I have a goliathus mouse pad (speed edition) and a naga 2014 and I absolutely love it. Personally, I feel that the mechanical side buttons make it much better than the previous models. Also, as a veteran naga epic and naga 2014 owner, I should warn you, Razer’s quality is very hit or miss. I’ve replaced my naga epic 5 times since 2010 and have replaced my naga 2014 several months back (ordered on january).

I use a logitech G400. Nothing could be better.

Apolo.5942:

Definitely not a gamepad. Try a Razer Naga mouse. In all honestly i cant possibly fathom how can anyone play this game with out something like that.

Thats what I use on my desktop and I absolutely love it (also have a logitech g600 but I like the feel/shape of the naga better). I also play on a laptop half the time and I hate not having the naga mouse with it (also doesn’t help not having much room on the arm of the chair to move the mouse ).

Hi guys my opinion the best way to play GW2 is having a Razer Naga and Razer Anansi.

regards

I have a G400 and I really like it.

I have small hands and hold it left handed, but the left and right buttons are quite large (you can push almost on the top of the mouse and it still registers) and the rest are clustered near the middle so they’re easy to reach. It doesn’t have as many buttons as an MMO mouse, but I wouldn’t want all my skills on the mouse. I use my right hand on the keyboard for my skills and the mouse for camera controls and things like dodge, jump, F and auto-run.

One thing I would definitely recommend, especially if it’s your first time buying a gaming mouse is to go into a shop and try a few out. Even if they’re not plugged in just get a feel for what kind of shape/size/layout is comfortable for you. It can be a big investment and you might find what you thought you’d like isn’t actually what’s comfortable for you.

I’m rather happy with my GW2 Steelseries gaming mouse. Weapon skills are close enough to WASD that they aren’t hard to reach. Heal through elite are mapped to the mouse quite nicely.

Plus, the fact it’s official merchandise is nice :p

naga or g400 are godly in all games tbh

I have small hands and i’m left handed, i bought a logitech g300 mouse because it is small and has the same buttons left and right. as keyboard i use a logitech g105.

Another vote here for Logitech G600.

Logitech G600 for me.

Using G-shift you have the equivalent of twenty four side buttons. Pretty impressive.

I use a 2014 Razar Naga. I’d suggest that. Lots of buttons, who doesn’t like buttons?

Been using a Logitech G600 all this time, and I will instabuy a new one if something happens to it, that said I’ve been mashing it for the past 3 years using it at least 12 hours a day

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Logitech g600 is great.

I control my whole skill bar(including f1-f4) and my weapon swap with it.

Yep, I use the exact same one and never looked back, totally changes the way I play the game compared to before. Highly recommended and it’s great for other genres too even though it’s marketed as an ‘mmo mouse’

I use a Logitech G600. It’s a 12-button mouse with the ability to switch mappings easily between separate profiles, have custom binds on a per-game basis and the ability to run Lua script macros too. Highly recommended.

I am using the Razer naga but I also use the Razer Orbweaver and the Blackwidow Stealth keyboard.

I honestly didn’t see the need for an MMO mouse for GW2; Steelseries Rival has me covered. Heal and Dodge bound to side buttons, Weapon swap to scroll click.

Corsair M95 has a different button placement than the Naga, might be better too.

Cyborg MMO 7 mouse for me. After having this one for a couple of years i went and tried the naga, but the naga just didnt work out for me(couldnt comfortably hit all buttons without moving my hand around on mouse), so i went back to my cyborg.

Hated the Naga. Didn’t feel right, and there were too many buttons in one place. I wound up disabling many or giving duplicate functions to buttons. I used to like Razer, and they make a quality-feeling product. But they burn out fast. I went through a ton before I gave up on the company.

MUCH better for me is the Corsair Vengeance M90 mouse:
http://www.corsair.com/en-us/vengeance-m90-performance-mmo-rts-laser-gaming-mouse
Plenty of programmable buttons, but much better organized so that you don’t have to think about what button you’re pushing. The design is plain more efficient and the quality is super high. This is a heavy mouse, but not a huge palm-filling monster. (I am a “fingertip control” mouser… I hate palming the mouse. I lose too much feel that way). Very easy to program. Return your Naga before it breaks down.
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While you’re at it, I have also gone through a ton of keyboards in my day. It’s every bit as important a part of your game interaction as your mouse. Mechanical switches are the only way to go. The “feel” of the switch is up to you. There are other keyboards and keyboard manufacturers that use the CHERRY mechanical switches (Blue is the “audible click” kind. Brown has a click “feel” but less of an audible effect. Red has no click). I like the audible click, but to each his own.

My current keyboard is the Corsair Gaming K70 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard — Cherry MX Blue
http://www.corsair.com/en-us/corsair-gaming-k70-rgb-mechanical-gaming-keyboard-cherry-mx-blue

I just happen to like this keyboard for the special effects. It is the Legendary Weapon of keyboards. (See video):

You have complete control of lighting and special effects for each and every single key on this board. (two USB 2.0 ports required). It can automatically recognize what program you are using and reset the lighting and effects for each specific one. (I have a “basic” layout, and when I open GW2 it changes to highlight the keys I use the most in the colors that I want).

The K70 RGB is awesome, but the setup is NOT well documented. I finally found a nice video tutorial on YouTube and feel I have fair control over this beast now. The K95 has additional programmable control keys (I didn’t opt for them. I had a previous Corsair model with the same layout, and kept hitting them by accident. You might not. It depends on how you position your hands.)

Like the mouse, this is a super-high quality product. A nice, hefty board. But I like that, personally.

Expensive? Yeah. The mouse and keyboard together with tax will put you out about $300. But in the grand scheme of things, that’s a pittance for how long they’ll last you and how much GOOD QUALITY use you’ll get from them. (I had dinner recently at a fancy restaurant that cost a third of that. And it only lasted a couple hours.)

as others have suggested- g600 is your best go.

I use a Logitec G600 aswell. I am a female with relatively small hands

The Logitec G600 is a great mouse and the functionality is fantastic, but..

I find it too large for my hand to use properly. My hand tends to slide backwards to the smaller end of the mouse, ending up with my wrist resting on the table surface. So I only have access to 6 out of the 12 side buttons (G15-20). I can not hold it stable in the “optimal” position and when if I do try then again struggle to get access to all the buttons.

It is also both a very wide and heavy mouse and picking it up when running out of “arms length”, for instance or when doing consecutive tight turns (like a spiral staircase for instance), I find it clunky and end up sliding my down onto the back of the mouse. Again loosing access to the front 6 buttons. I have also had to disable the “third” mouse button (large button on the right side – I believe it’s called G), to be able to pick up the mouse without accidentally triggering it all the time. I use it as a finger rest :-P

I have come to the conclusion that the idea of the mouse is great, but that design wise it leaves a lot of room for improvement. I have resigned myself to using only 6 side buttons and use some keyboard control as well.

It will also depend a lot on how you normally grip your mouse. I can only strongly recommend that you to try this mouse out before you buy it.

My husband, who has quite large hands, finds that there is limited easy and rapid access to the buttons with any degree of accuracy, when in battle mode. He’s having problems controlling the mouse wheel in the middle, because of the size of his fingers and for instance finds pushing the wheel left of right (like I do for strafing) impossible.

We are beginning to think about using a combination of ordinary mouse in conjunction with a gaming pad.

Good luck in finding a mouse that suits! It is so personal.

My two cents :-)

Using Razer Naga Hex, so 6 buttons in a circle to the left, 2 buttons beneath the scroll wheel. Works well for me for my small/medium hands and I guess it would also work for smaller hands.

I Have the Razer Naga MMO Gaming Mouse. all the keys needed are at your thumbtips LoL.

Check out the Anker gaming mouse. I really like it, and had one return, they sent me a return box, RMA and the new mouse in one package.

I have never felt I got my money’s worth from razer products and my two return experiences were ventures into hell. I won’t call them the worst by any means but for the money I don’t think they are anywhere near the best.

I’ve got a Razr Naga. I have small hands. It works great for me.

And when I say small hands, I mean small hands. Tiny mice designed for portability with laptops do not make my hand uncomfortable while using them.

If you have any gaming friends see if they have any mice they aren’t using (that still work of course) and see if they won’t let you borrow it or let you buy it off of them.

That’s how I got mine. My brother had gotten a new mouse and didn’t need the one I’m using anymore. I couldn’t afford to shell out money for a mouse that may not work for my small hands. So he let me try it out and then it became a birthday or Christmas present.

Logitech G500 is, hhhnnggg so good! Most comfortable mouse I have ever touched.

I got a Anker Gaming mouse too, you got 4 programable buttons (2 on the side, 2 on top, for me it’s more than enough), it’s really not expensive because it’s not a really big company, but everything they make is good quality, so i would recommend it for you

Plus, the mouse is really small compared to some other mouse

I don’t understand how people need expensive “gaming” this and that. I’m using a TrackPoint to play this game. If you don’t know what that is, it’s the little dot in the middle of the keyboard on business laptops.

narwhalsbend.7059:

I don’t understand how people need expensive “gaming” this and that. I’m using a TrackPoint to play this game. If you don’t know what that is, it’s the little dot in the middle of the keyboard on business laptops.

You can play sports in your backyard (gaming) and have lots of fun. But the more dedicated you are, the more “professional” equipment you need to get that little extra edge. Would you play organized football without padding? Would you professionally race cars in a VW Beetle? (Herbie doesn’t count! ) Would you run the Ironman in your work shoes? It can be done, but you won’t be as likely to win, and it will be a struggle in the long run just to keep up.

For me, marathon gaming sessions have led to better mice, better keyboards, better chairs, better headphones, and better gaming computer components. It all depends on how serious you take your gaming. Nothing hard to understand about that at all.

If ya want cheap, but still decent, I suggest the Cobra Jr. I mean it’s not a Razer Naga, but at $15 for 1600 DPI and like 6 buttons, it’s not a bad choice at all. Also has like a DPI adjustment button. I’ve had mine for 4 years, and it’s still kickin!