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Razer Naga MMOG Laser Gaming Mouse
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- 5600dpi Razer Precision 3.5G Laser Sensor
- 17 MMO-optimized buttons (including 12 button thumb grid)
- Optional MMO-specific software AddOns
- 1000Hz Ultrapolling / 1ms response time
- Unlimited character profiles with AddOns
Product Description
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 you need in the palm of your hand. An ergonomic form shaped to maximize ease of use lets you game in comfort for hours on end. With the Razer Naga, you will Get Imba…. More >>
7 Comments
May 4th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Mouse was way too small for my hand and I dont have big hands. You cant reach the two top buttons despite this. The configuration software doesnt let you set special buttons (for example have the 1 on the mouse act as a shift modifier).
All in all I was very disappointed.
Rating: 2 / 5
May 4th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
The Razer Naga is a very nice gaming mouse. Same quality as the Lachesis. Razer makes great mice.
Steep learning curve. They give you these little plastic adhesive “trainers” which stick to the keys in a pattern. I have mine on the 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 keys
This mouse out of the box just gives you a number pad on your mouse thumb. 1 through 0, then – and =. which corresponds to your first action bar in WoW.
They also give you a WoW addon. However, I have not tried it. Why? Because it doesn’t support any bar modification other than the stock UI. aka… it doesn’t support Bartender4.
Biggest disappointment is lack of Bartender4 support. I’m sure Razer will have to change this. Don’t know of anyone who doesn’t use Bartender4.
Rating: 4 / 5
May 5th, 2010 at 1:07 am
I would really like to know who at Razor thought that putting nine buttons just South of where your thumb is used for stabilization was a good idea? Did he have two thumbs? The buttons are not in a place where any normal human can quickly move from one to the next during action without losing movement grip on the mouse. Maybe they would be ok for stand-still functions like opening inventory.
Here’s a tip for the guys at Razor, or anyone else looking to make a competitive mouse in this genre: Put a low profile Directional-thumbstick in a low, natural spot on the side of the mouse, making the mouse capable of complete movement control so the keyboard can be freed up for only action buttons. Boom, done. The Blizzard WoW mouse has a d-pad of sorts, but that mouse has failed from poor production quality so it’s a non-entry. Using a thumbstick on the mouse would not sacrifice stability, since the thumb does not need to be lifted.
People don’t want gaming mice/pads for more buttons, there are plenty of buttons on a keyboard. We want a device to completely remove movement control from the keyboard (not turning, but front/back/strafe), so our keyboard hand can be entirely delegated to hitting action keys.
I gave 2 stars for the effort of trying to innovate, but the design should be obvious. Basically, someone needs to make a quality version of the Blizzard mouse, focusing on the thumb stick.
Rating: 2 / 5
May 5th, 2010 at 2:17 am
**Laser is Faulty
I recently began putting this mouse through it’s paces. I decided to test it’s ability to track while playing medium-to-loud music, and found that the cursor tracks all over the screen due to the resonance from the bass. I found this problem when I decided to do a mix-down of a song I’m working on and cranked my studio monitors to about mid-level. It does this even with small 2″ desktop speakers in my office. I tried moving the mouse to a surface next to my desk, and the reverberation still caused tracking problems. I’ve never had this problem with any other laser mouse that I’ve used in the past, and at this price range, the device should be flawless. I’ve tried it on several of my Razer mats and they help very little to reduce the problem.
As far as I’m concerned, Razer produces sub-par quality products and provides buggy drivers and software.
**Poor Macro Assignment Functionality
Despite the new drivers and software for this mouse, the macro binding functions are unusable in so many cases. The only way to macro anything is by a “Record” type of functionality. For example, when trying to macro Windows Key + E (Windows Explorer) to one of the buttons, you must record the key-strokes of Windows Key+E, but when you perform these key-strokes, Windows Explorer pops up, naturally, and takes focus away from the Razer Naga macro window, resulting in a failure of the record function. This makes it impossible to macro even the simplest of Windows keyboard combo’s. I’ve tried everything and there’s no other way around it.
There should be a manual way of entering the key-combo’s without actually having to perform them. This is a huge and annoying flaw!
If any key combination runs a dialog box that takes focus from the Razer window, you will be unable to assign that combo to a macro. This is a major flaw in the programming and I can’t believe it’s been looked over. I’ve been unable to get support for this from Razer and no one else seems to recognize this flaw, as I’ve yet to see any complaints on the web.
At any rate, the Naga is a decent mouse that is very much overpriced and still sporting horrible software. Thanks Razer, but at this price everything should work flawlessly. I’ll be returning this one.
Pros:
-Mouse is of solid construction, minus the laser
-Looks beautiful and feels even better
Cons:
-Price
-Poor laser tracking
-Software is sub-par
-Macroing is less than functional
Rating: 2 / 5
May 5th, 2010 at 4:48 am
I love “gaming” mouses, I play mostly MMo (WoW, LotRO, now WAR and Aion) on my PC. I got the Logitech G5 then the steelseires WOW mouse then this, I might give comparison on these products.
Package and Physical looks
The package comes in a really nice box like other razer products (bought a razer headphone a while back), comes with bunch of papers that you probably don’t need and some instruction manuals, no software included since you need to download it from the site. Physically the Naga looks and feels great (fits nicely on my hand) comes with a blue light that you can turn on and off, has a rubberish feel on top and 1~12 key pad buttons. The wire is a USB and its one of those that are tangle free just like those from Steelseries and G5. The mouse runs really prefect specially if you have those nice mouse pads.
The Buttons
All in all it has 17 buttons + wheel. the Mouse 4-5 (which is the side buttons not the 1~12 keypad) are placed weirdly since it requares you to use the pointy finger to press, on G5 and steelseries you use your thumb. The problem occurs when you want that pointy finger on the mouse 1 (left click) which you mostly use in MMO (example for pressing Run which requares you to press/hold mouse 1 and 2 together).
the 1~12 are the keypad on the right side, this is mapped on your 1 to = buttons on your keyboard. The 12 buttons are confusing at first (I still press the wrong one from time to time even after couple of weeks). They provided you with some “trainers” which is a 3m stickers that you place on top of the keys so they will have a distinct feel, basically a marker. 1~6 buttons are probably easy access stuffs 10~12 are still ok but requares you to move a bit.
Software
This is the sad part about this thing… Currently it doesn’t have a software! It has the software but all it does is it changes the dpi, and blue light (on and off) and thats it! Not button binding, macro ect… I understand it’s a tricky business for MMos when it comes to automation but with the likes if steelseries and even the G5 that has both customizable properties. On Razers side, they released these “addons” for the the games like WAR and WoW, Ive tried the Razer mod/addon for WAR and it works very simplistic the 1-12 skill from skill bar 1 will be on the grid. I had to redo my skill placement since I have to place them to skillbar one which sucks, if you play MMO the moment you change your keybinds to somewhere it just means that you need to get familiarized again!
If you want those keys with Alt+1, Atl+2, Ctrl+1… ect… they your out off luck the razer mod only does skill bar 1 and you figure out a way to make them fit in those bar.
VS other mouse
The Logitech G5 has few buttons but this thing works like a charm, all the buttons are easy to access and customizable with Setpoint software, Razer has the upper hand interms of number of buttons but like what I am saying it has problems. They both feel real good and nice on the hand.
VS steelseries WOW mouse, I really love the Wow mouse; the button placement are really simple and nonconfusing at all! My only problem was when I first used it was kinda big on the top so took me a while to get use to it. Naga has 17 buttons over 15 buttons on the steelseries. Software was WoW Themed eventhough I was playing WAR during those times (kinda annoys me a bit seeng that you can link your character portrait in it but you cant since your playing a diffrent game). Overall I like the WoW mouse over it since the buttons are really easy to rememmber/access thuse being accurate.
Conclution
This mouse is not that bad despite all the problems. I just really hope they will upgrade the software to something where you can bind your keys instead of getting stucks to key 1~=. I am currently playing Aion but that game doesnt support Mods so that means no razer mod (still works thought). I dont regret my purchase it’s just I thought by this time the software whouldn’t be as terrible.
Rating: 3 / 5
July 28th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
wrong Kazen… all of it, first of all u can use the keyboard to run which is fine as long as you dont use it to turn, also it’s quite easy to hit them while keeping half your finger on the left click button. The 1-12 keys are on the LEFT side of the mouse, not the right. It does have software for button binding, and you absolutely CAN do binds like Shift+1 and Ctrl+1 and Alt+1… I have all of them, bound to 4 different bars, it works perfectly and this is not new considering your comment was may 5,2010 and i got my mouse several months before then.
August 26th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
I just bought a gateway Night sky gaming laptop. I know, I know, gateway is not a good company, and I know the graphic card is weak. I just want to no what games can be played, and if anyone has this laptop. Let me know if it’s worth the money because I just brought three days ago, so I can return it if it’s not good..