Razer Naga MMOG Laser Gaming Mouse (RZ01-00280100-R3)
- 5600dpi Razer Precision 3.5G Laser Sensor
- Optional MMO-specific software AddOns
- 1000Hz Ultrapolling / 1ms response time
The Razer Naga is the ultimate Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming mouse that shifts the balance between keyboard and mouse by putting an unprecedented number of in-game commands in one place. A multi-button thumb grid and Razer’s MMO game interface add-on combine to place every command in the palms of your hands
List Price: $ 79.99
Price: $ 67.50
Mad Catz Cyborg R.A.T. 7 Gaming Mouse for PC and MAC (CCB437080002/04/1)
- Strong yet nimble, the solid metal frame forms the core of the Cyborg R.A.T. 7 for enhanced rigidity.
- Hit your target the first time every time.
Play to win with the R.A.T. 7. Uncompromising, unparalleled, and unmatched, the R.A.T. 7 helps you play like the pros, combining state-of-the-art technology with a jaw-dropping array of customizable features to produce the next step in the evolution of the mouse.
List Price: $ 99.99
Price: $ 75.00
Jordan Edwards on October 18, 2011
Now with macro support!,
** This review has been revised for the release of the 2.0 drivers, which enable full key remapping and macro support. THANK YOU RAZER! **
** Please consider this a 5/5 star review. For some reason, Amazon isn’t allowing me to change that aspect of my review and I would like to keep the comments on this product review rolling. Sorry for any confusion this may cause. **
My first impressions review of the Razer Naga was pretty grim. Having come from using a Logitech G7 for years prior, the Naga felt clunky at best and the complete lack of any key rebinding support for a mouse intended for MMO use left me scratching my head. In the days following that initial review, Wave of team Naga left me a comment (as seen in the comments section of this review) stating that they were intending to address the later with an upcoming driver release. A few months later, just as he had promised, version 2.0 hit… and it hit hard!
Before I get into all that, let me tackle the ergonomics. As I mentioned, at first I felt this mouse to be very clunky. Now, months later, I could not have been more wrong. When they said this mouse was designed for long gaming sessions with minimal hand fatigue, they meant it. My only real complaints in this department is about button placement. No, no, not the 12-button thumb pad… those are perfect! My beef is with the two additional index finger buttons, which for me, are at best awkwardly placed and at worst completely unusable.
But lets cut the nonsense, if you are reading this you care about one thing and one thing only… the 12 buttons on the side of this bad-boy.
I’ll be straight with you, at first it is awkward as hell and comes with a bit of a learning curve. Don’t expect to pick this mouse up and be some kinda of button-pressing Mozart by morning. Now months after my purchase I am still second guessing myself from time to time when reaching for the 8 and 9 key, mostly because I don’t use them in very many games. As I alluded to earlier in this review, they are placed such that I don’t have any issue at all reaching any one button (though 11 and 12 require a funky move that can mess with my cursor precision.)
The 2.0 driver also brought with it two additional features that came as a bit of a surprise to me… profiles and macros! The profiles are just what you would expect and though very basic in their functionality, the macros should get the job done nine times out of ten. If you are familiar with the Logitech G15 or Nostromo N52, then you know what I am talking about. If not, well, it’s little more than pre-recorded keystrokes with custom delays between them. Nothing fancy, but far from useless.
Now that the issue of rebindable keys has been taken care of, I struggle to find anything at all wrong with this mouse.
If I absolutely had to give it a con, hmmm… I suppose it requires a bit more care than other mice in order to keep clean. Lots of buttons means lots of places for build up. Fortunately the fit/finish on this mouse is tight enough that cleanup is a breeze.
Happy grinding/fragging/whateveryouneed17gloriousbuttonsfordoing!
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|Dylan Ginsburg on October 18, 2011
Finally, the mouse I’ve been waiting for!,
Edit: I’ve stopped playing WoW so much and have been playing other types of games recently. Now that the buttons can be remapped this mouse works well for any game. It’s great for shooters because I can swap weapons without having to reach for the F-keys. I’ve grown to appreciate how ergonomic it is. It fits my hand perfectly. I’m fully acclimated to the button placement and can hit the right one without thinking. Razer was right that it takes 15-20 hours for it to become second nature. I have found that for my short fingers only 9 of the 12 thumb buttons are an easy reach. I try to put the less important functions on the top row.
As an avid WoW player I’m always on a quest for mice with more buttons. MOAR! Most mice are limited to 5 mappable buttons that my fingers can actually reach. Some do cram more buttons on the mouse but place them in awkward locations that are only practical for infrequently used functions. I had high hopes for the SteelSeries WoW branded mouse but it’s built poorly and the thumb buttons are hard to press individually without fat fingering the next button. Another mouse I wanted to like was the Sandio 3D but it’s way too large for my hand. Plus, the hat switches are good for movement but not so good for mapping to four individual functions. I’ve been using Logitech MX series mice that have 8-9 mappable buttons. These are comfortable and the software is very flexible in how the buttons are mapped. I’ve been content with them but am always looking for more.
Enter the Razer Naga. I thought this was a Photoshop joke when I first saw the picture. But they really have put a cell phone style keypad on the thumb side for a total of 17 buttons. What’s amazing is they’ve done this while keeping the mouse a reasonable size and having all but one button within easy finger reach. The mouse feels very high quality. It’s very comfortable with good tactile feel. The scroll wheel is the nicest I’ve ever used. It’s clear that Razer puts a lot of effort into creating a functional design, not just something that looks good in the box. My only complaint about the physical aspect is that it’s rather lightweight.
The thumb buttons will take getting used to and I’m still working on it. I’m not going to raid with it out of the box because I don’t want people to die. But even after a short while playing around with it in battlegrounds I’m improving and I can tell that the muscle memory will build up quickly until it feels natural – just like with a keyboard or gaming pad. Thoughtfully, Razer includes rubbery stick on nubs that you can place as tactile landmarks to train yourself. Razer claims 88% of gamers are fully comfortable after 18 hours of play.
The Windows driver is simpler and less flexible than I expected. The thumb buttons map to either the number row above the keyboard or the right number pad. The 5 main buttons map to the standard windows Left/Right/Middle/Back/Forward actions. There is no custom button mapping. Razer expects you to use an in game interface to map your actions to the fixed buttons. This is fine for WoW but could be a limitation on other games.
Razer supplies a custom WoW addon that is available at [...]. It’s just a branded version of Dominos – an established addon. It’s good that Razer licensed something that is fully featured and well tested rather than creating something new that probably wouldn’t be as good. I’m unable to use it, however, because it conflicts with Bartender4. There is no need to use the Razer addon as the mouse is just acting like 12 keyboard buttons. Since the default behavior is to just map the 12 numbers above the keyboard you could just use standard WoW action bars and keybindings with zero configuration.
If it’s not clear by now, I think this is a great product. I’ve been waiting for a mouse like this for 5 years and Razer has delivered!
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|J. Sikes "zoinkster" on October 18, 2011
Useful Mouse for PC and Mac Users, a bit intimidating at first,
The hardware is nicely built and has a solid feel to it. The charging station is heavy..you won’t be knocking it over by accident.
The buttons have a nice feel and even with big sausage fingers I was able to just click one at a time. Determining where your fingers are and which button you’re pushing will take some practice.
I happen to use both Windows and Mac with this Mouse every day. On Windows, I use it for work (web developer). I have setup Macros and Key Mappings that help me with common tasks (add a table skeleton, add common code snippets, etc.). This works great.
On my Mac, I play games with it, mostly. At first, I tried to map every single action to the mouse. This just didn’t work well for game play. So now, I use a combination of the keyboard and mouse buttons. Only using about 6 out of the 12 buttons for things like Health Potions, Speed Potions, Mounts. I do find that clicking the bottom 3 (10,11,12) is a little bit of stretch when you’re trying to also move your character around with the mouse.
There are options for profile switching based on the current application you are in. I have not tried setting this up, honestly.
There are some video tutorials available, and if you really want to get the maximum use out of your new fancy mouse, I do suggest watching them. Just check the Razer Naga Epic site.
The Mac Drivers seem just as good as the Windows Drivers, although you don’t get all the flashy Configuration Screens.
One thing that is missing from the Mac side is the Firmware Updater. You cannot update the firmware from a Mac, as far as I know.
If I were building this, I would probably remove the bottom 3 buttons on the side and make the rest bigger, that’s my only real issue.
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|enders4you on October 18, 2011
My new favorite mouse . . . from MadCatz?,
Customer Video Review Length:: 6:40 Mins
Here is a quick video review of the Cyborg R.A.T. 7 gaming mouse.
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|H0tspur on October 18, 2011
Innovative, configurable and smooooove…,
If I don’t cover one of the coolest features of this mouse first, I’ll forget:
– The thumb shelf changes the game. I had no idea how much drag my thumb would provide and how it interfered with the smooth control of my games. The thumb shelf on the R.A.T. 7 is the perfect size to hold my fat thumb and keep it out of the way.
Continuing on – this will be the first mouse to replace my almost-perfect Logitech from 1999. The Logitech was heavy, had a nice, tactile wheel, moved very smoothly and had a responsive, easy-to-clean mouseball. Yeah, no optics for me.
The R.A.T. 7 starts light and is adjustable up to HEAVY. The solid chunk of stamped aluminum that acts as the frame peeks out from all the adjustable nooks and crannies and holds all the assemblies tightly. The feet glide smoother than any other mouse I’ve used. The adjustable palm rest is perfect, even if you like a shorter grip. The pinkie shelf was a nice addition, too, until I found that it interfered with play. No problem – I can use the stock pinkie assembly, but I took the whole thing off for an even better configuration taht fits my grip.
The DPI is suffficient for noticeably smoother control, and the on-the-fly DPI adjustment button at the thumb is an innovation I never thought I’d use. Until I started rockin’ fools with it in MW2.
The best way to think about this mouse is this way: what else do you have for your PC that will last ten years? And grow or shrink to fit your gaming style over that whole decade? Not even your monitor is this adjustable…
Oh, and there’s the fabric-wrapped cord and the removable adjustment tool and the horizontal scroll wheel and the tin that comes with the extra thumb and pinkie plates and the container for the weights and the configuration software and… phew!
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|Martin Aber-Song on October 18, 2011
Takes some adjusting and getting used to, but great mouse.,
After following this mouse on the web and seeing it’s weirdness on Youtube and the Cyborg site. I have to say that I’m more than surprised. Ignore what most people are saying about the sensor, I’ve picked up the mouse a few times and with any mouse it’s going to move a little, even with my G9 and crappy 5 dollar everyday usage mouse, re-aim you crappy players who like to complain and blame a mouse! I’m using a big mousepad, the metal one from Cyborg’s site with dual side covering, and the dual DPI setting works great. Play tested it with Global Agenda for the past few hours and it feels great. The sniper button is adjustable to how fast or slow you want to make the DPI setting in comparable to your mouse DPI, other words, if your DPI setting for shooting without scope is set to 3000, but when you scope, you can adjust it at 50% (default) so it’s down to 1500, then you can adjust more or less depending if you want the sniper mode to be faster or slower based on a percentage to your current DPI setting. So if you go up to 5000, and the sniper mode is set to 50% (default), sniper mode puts it at 2500.
This mouse is a little bit on the heavier side though, even with all the weights taken out, it tips the scale over my G9 even with the weights in the G9 and NOT in the R.A.T. 7. But that’s easy to get used to, the funkiness of it’s design and ability to form fit the palm rest and thumb buttons, as well as change the ring finger and pinky siding to different grips as well as a rest for casual usage is a great feature. Doubt it’s as comfortable as some ergonomic mice with dual form fitted finger rests, but remember, this is a changeable design.
Very few cons with this mouse so far, minor annoyances.
– I wished Cyborg would have gone with covering for the metal frame bottom, yes, it’s sturdy and easily usable as a flail, but the corners of the metal get on my nerves for fear I may scratch my mousepad, which is FROM Cyborg also, lol. Also the mouse’s feet could have a little more surface to them.
– The mouse DPI setting button (located in below the mouse wheel) feels a little loose, which kind of scared me, I’m wondering if it should be stiffer or is that how it’s suppose to be? Not too sure, will have to email Cyborg about it, but it works, it’s more of a single button switch than a button. Like a toggle button, that you press and push forward to increase, or press and pull back to decrease DPI setting.
– Another minor annoyance is the thumb buttons swivle ability, if you get way too into a game, I could see the potential for pushing too hard on the thumb buttons and sniper button and possible pushing in the thumb buttons so you’d have to readjust the swivle again.
– Last minor annoyance is the tool placement for the mouse. I like how it’s part of the mouse so it’s not easily lost. BUT damned if you have small hands or like to support your mouse with only your fingers for really fast paced pick up and move shooting, for the nub of the tool does get annoying to the bottom palm of your hand, at least move the palm rest down one click to avoid this problem. I like 2 clicks down myself, gives a better palm feel for me.
Overall, I’m really shocked. Glad Saitek/Cyborg kept up with producing this mouse the way it came out and don’t let the MadCatz label fool you. Ever true gamer knows about MadCatz, but remember, this is a CYBORG, not really a MadCatz, though it has their label. Also they do include a nifty tin case to carry all the extra parts and even a small container for weights you aren’t using, though the weight container is somewhat a pain since the weights can get stuck inside. I suggest you toss it out or place a buffer inside the bottom so weights won’t get stuck. With as big as the tin case is, you’d think the mouse would fit inside also, which I wish it did! Be a great way to transport a mouse for LAN parties.
If you got the dough to dish out, it’s a pretty interesting mouse with a great concept, adjust it to your hand for whatever reason or game you play. Again, this mouse is capable of being used as a flail, so remember not to beat anyone who sneaks behind you while you’re trying to shoot someone.
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