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Published: Mar 21, 2009 Author: Niko Lupala Editor: Amber Lupala Provider: Steelseries Share this article:

Closer Look and Testing

 
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The scroll wheel feels nice to work with even when surfing and working with the computer. On the right side of the mouse there is a buttons which also works as two differnt buttons, it actually performs two different actions if you click the forward or back part of the button.

 
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The left side of the mouse is really the most interesting part of the mouse, there is three buttons which two of them function as four buttons, you push the back or front part of the buttons for different functions. The big button can be clicked four ways which gives you four different attacks on that button. Now personally I feel that with my hand I can't really reach to click forward, I actually have to move my hand to be able to do the attack. The button works great though in general if you have a bigger hand, as a feral druid I have programmed four start attacks on this button.

Back = Pounce
Down = Mangle
Forward = Shred 
Up = Ferocius Bite

I have to admit that finding keys for this combo is quite hard with all the shortcuts I already have on my keyboard so it's awesome I can put them on the mouse instead and I can do the attacks alot faster than on the keyboard since they are so close together.

The bottom of the mouse is equipped with two plastic pads which slide very nice over my Qpad mousepad, with some slidez I think it would do even better although that might not be so necessary in WoW.

 
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The whole cable to the mouse is sleeved which suits me personally quite well as my cat likes to chew on cables. It also looks nicer and protects the long cord well if you happen to roll over it with your chair.  I mentioned before that the mouse feels quite big for my hand and with the picture to the right I hope to explain it a bit better. As you see my thimb will not reach to push the button forward which means I have to move my whole hand.

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The mouse lights up and can have pulsating leds in various colors, you can turn this feature off though if you find it annoying.  You can choose between 16 million colors so there is quite a bit for you to play around with to customize your mouse. It can pulsate at 4 different intensitys or none as I said earlier.