STEELSERIES WOW MOUSE DPI SOFTWARE
STEELSERIES WOW MOUSE DPI WINDOWS

This involved disabling the in game support, having mouse over macros bound to the action bar and binding the action bar to the mouse buttons via SteelSeries software. In theory, there was various was of achieving the desired effect, but the only one that actually worked. Eventually it was set up to use the extra buttons to simply hover over a raid members icon on grid, clicking the button and it would cast the spell on the correct target. Setting up the mouse to operate as I wanted for healing took a fair bit longer than setting it up for the warlock. The extra binds were this time assigned to the spells used most to stop my Conrad's from snuffing it at the hands of various bosses. The character I tested with was my 80 Resto Druid, so being assigned to raid healing there is an awful lot of clicking involved. Moving on to a slightly different aspect of the game, raiding, the mouse became even more prominent. Another example for my warlock being using the voidwalkers sacrifice, or trinketing out of crowd control.

Moving on to a bit of PvP on the same character, the binds became more valuable, the ability to use things that would normally be clicked, or require a key modifier were much easily accessed bound the mouse buttons. It especially suited well for AoE (Specifically in this case Shadowfury). I found it most useful to bind lesser used spells to the mouse in this situation. The extra binds really do help when you've got a lot of spells to juggle. Bound some spells to some buttons and took to it like a fish to water. So to start with I enabled the in-game support, which was as easy as checking a box in the interface -> mouse section.

STEELSERIES WOW MOUSE DPI SOFTWARE

Being the first thing I tried, it also involved using the software & game interface for the first time too.

This involved grinding mobs, questing and the occasional instance on the warlock I'm levelling at the time of writing. I mean if a peripheral doesn't work well with a piece of software is specifically designed for is there much point in it? So to start I'd get to grips with the mouse with a area of the game I'm going to dub 'General play'. As I'll describe a bit more during the WoW testing section.ДЄrguably, this section could make or break this mouse. Last of the extra buttons were each side of the mouse wheel, and these were unbelievably useful. I found them best bound to switching profiles up and down and they fit that bill very nicely. The two buttons on the spine of the mouse were also a little awkward to reach, but not too bad. The four buttons being bound to one pad was a little awkward, sometimes accidentally pressing 2 of them in a rush to get a spell out. The furthest back single button sat in a perfect position (and became my push to talk button for ventrillo it was so comfy) with the four way d-pad style button sat directly under the thumb. The left hand (thumb) buttons didn't suffer from the same fate, I'm pleased to say. It also felt plain un-natural to use the little finger for a button, but this would be another thing that would come with time. With my average sized hand sat in it's most natural feeling position I could just reach the rear of the two buttons, having to move to a different position to reach the second. Problems arose mostly due to the little finger buttons on the right of the mouse. The buttons in the most part were well placed. It felt a little un-sensitive to start without the ability to adjust the DPI, even with the win pointer speed set to max, but after a while I adjusted to this too.

STEELSERIES WOW MOUSE DPI WINDOWS

Using the mouse around a windows environment wasn't the most enthralling of events. This is one of those things that with time (which we don't really have for reviews) you would adjust to and using any other mouse would then feel small. After a while the bulk of the mouse was more familiar but still felt large after the short time I had to test with. My hands are pretty average, and thusly was stuck somewhere in the middle. On the other hand, a user with smaller hands may find it difficult to use, perhaps having to move their hand over around the mouse to find a button. For a user with large hands this can be an advantage, as it means it'll fit nicely under the palm and, hopefully, be comfortable. Now, is this a good or bad thing? This is where mouse reviewing gets tricky. And the very initial thought from the word go was 'wow this feels fat'. Firstly we'll start with general usage & how the mouse felt from the off.

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