I’m looking at getting a new mouse cause I’m tired of the $20 mice I keep buying dying on me. I want a wireless with at least 4 buttons, good battery life, and will last me for longer than a year (is this even possible?). Not too many buttons though, I won’t use more than 10. Any suggestions?
Perhaps the Logitech Performance Mouse MX? It seems to have the right amount of buttons for me…
I really like my Logitech G700. I think the current model is the G702, but you might want to check on that.
It has 4 thumb-buttons, which I consider a perfect number as it’s not going full “MMO Mouse”, while still offering you more than the usual 2 thumb-buttons. I use one for “push to talk” for example and would really miss it if it was elsewhere.
It also has both a wired and wireless option. Wireless is fine, especially if you use a Laptop but obviously the power will always run-out in the least opportune moments. So now I removed the battery pack and just use it as a regular cable mouse.
The price is rather high admittedly but if it were to break, I’m pretty sure I’d buy the same model again. I’ve also been using it for 4 years now and it has never caused me any problems. Just make sure to keep your environment around the PC relatively clean and dust-free.
On my laptop, I’ve got a wireless Logitech mouse that serves me well enough. For my desktop rig, I’ve got the RAT 3 gaming mouse, and that feels pretty darn good to play. It’s wired, but it’s for a desktop, so who cares?
My husband has the wireless Razer Naga Epic (I have the wired version). It has about 14 buttons, but I don’t think it’s really that many. I use 1-10 for skills and one of the extra buttons for push-to-talk on Team Speak. Instead of having batteries, you plug it in when it needs to charge (and can use it wired that way).
It’s hard to do jumping puzzles with a big, fuzzy butt.
Corollary question: Have wireless mice gotten more responsive? I used one in WoW many many years ago, but swapped back to wired when I discovered I literally could not do the torch juggling achieve without borrowing my husband’s large heavy wired mouse for the purpose. Even my raiding got better when I moved to wired even though I was never a hotkey clicker — but I do move with the mouse and my reactions were just enough faster with the wired one to get me out of fire in time.
i use the logitech performance mx for years now and i’m very content with it. it’s not a gaming mouse by design but as a allaround mouse it’s amazing. i have a glass table so darkfield was a good option for me (glass+darkfield=minimum friction=maximum precision without moving your hand more than 1 cm). you can change pretty much everything with setpoint, too. however, you should test it out first, it might be uncomfortable if you have too big/small hands.
@donari: yes they have. i can only talk for the lpmx but there is no latency or any difference to a cable mouse as far as i can determine it whatsoever.
If you want a decent dirt cheap mouse, the E-Blue Cobras are pretty good. 2 thumb buttons and a dpi changer that can also work as a physical button to quickly change sensitivity. Only probably was that it was harder to aim with in Planetside 2, but it wasn’t a problem in every other game I’ve played. Also the buttons on the red version that I had gotten, lost their “click” after about 1500 hours of game time, however my blue version (that I had gotten before the red) still works quite nicely. Guess it might be hit or miss with these, but hey, 10 bucks.
Personally I don’t like skills on my mice and only have dodge and target on my thumb buttons. If you feel like you need a fancy mouse with lots of buttons to map all you skills out, you could try using esdf instead of wasd for extra buttons.
I use the Mad Catz RAT 9 wireless and I love it. Very responsive, lots of buttons, easy to set up macros, extra battery…. battery lasts about 6 hrs of straight gaming
