SteelSeries World of Warcraft Mouse Review

Now for a few things outside of Warcraft.  While browsing webpages with this mouse, you have to be careful.  One wrong button can send you to another page, the bottom of the page, or to a whole different website.  I found this out the hard way.  While playing other games that I frequent, I didn’t have much trouble not hitting most of the buttons, aside from those two on either side of the scroll wheel.  Other than that, the fact that the software is a pain with macros and you have to download it, I don’t have any complaints about this mouse.  It’s very adjustable, it looks damned good, and fits the hand beautifully.  The ridges where the “plates” space out allow for extra cooling underhand, so no sweaty palms.  Well, I guess that kind of depends on what sites you frequent.

To conclude, I am very happy with this mouse.  Even though I had my arguments over the useability with the software, I am sure that improvements will come with updates.  I am sure that with some popular profiling software this mouse could be used in many gaming enviornments, but for now I would say that it’s natural habitat is Warcraft.  And that is where it belongs.

	REPORT CARD : SteelSeries World of Warcraft Mouse category rating comments Quality 4 Very good construction, but doesn’t feel as solid as it looks Innovation 5 More buttons and configurability than you can throw an Orc at Performance 4 Works great inside WoW once you get it set up. Not so useful outside of MMOs Installation 2 Configuring the software will consume many hours, and can be sometimes frustrating Value 3 You have to REALLY love WoW to justify this expense, but it’s not much more than a good gaming mouse.  It will certainly WOW your friends, though (pun intended). FINAL VERDICT: 4 out of 5 stars