Field75 Wireless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

The top gaming keyboards right now for competitive shooters are the HE switch keyboards like the Wooting 80HE, NuPhy Field75 HE, Lemokey P1 HE, or similar. These keyboards have features that if enabled can actually get you banned from some games! But the most impactful (non-banned) feature that these share is the adjustable trigger point and rapid trigger. The short explanation is these keyboards can be adjusted so that try trigger with as little as 0.05mm of depression rather than the usual 1\~3mm the average keyboard has. Additionally, to release or retrigger the key you don't have to release it entirely and press again. Instead any upward movement over some user adjusted distance on the key is considered as release, and any downward movement of that also user adjusted distance will activate it. This means if you want to press a single button really fast, you can just kind of wiggle it in a half-depressed position and that'll work just as well as lifting your finger off entirely. The banned feature is what Wooting calls Rappy Snappy. Which lets you configure pairs of keys such that if one is press, the other is automatically released, even if you're still actually holding it down. The main use case for this is strafe keys, as in many games if you're holding both left and right strafe you'll actually stand entirely still, this ensures you're always moving. I believe that feature will get you banned in CS2 (and Valorant?) specifically. That said, some people don't like HE keyboards, and keyboards in general are very subjective for what people like. And while something like the features the HE keyboards have can give legitimate advantages between the very high end players, plenty of professional players still don't use it. ... For mice... the only real consistent feature that's valuable is low weight. Razer and Logitech have consistently been the two big names here for a long time, and then Glorious and Final Mouse started pushing the ultra light mice and kind of shook up the market. These days Glorious are kind of just okay, and Final Mouse have serious quality control issues even if you can get ahold of one. And there's been a massive influx of new players in the gaming mouse scene that have been putting out amazing mice for amazing prices. Something like an MCHOSE A7 Pro for $50, ATK Dragonfly A9 for $25, or Attack Shark X11 for <$20, matches a $150 Logitech G Pro X Ultralight 2 in terms of performance and often quality (for all but the AttackShark... but it's <$20). There's also mice from Pulsar and Lamzu which really are better than anything made by Logitech. Razer on the other hand does seem to be keeping up with the rest of the mouse market, but they're still priced like high end Razer products always have been... which is expensive. I will note that a lot of these mice, and the more expensive well known brands, will advertise 8k polling rates. It should be noted that the top players do not use 8k polling because while on paper it sounds like it should make things better, 1k\~2k polling rates are really the max that actually give any benefit. There's a CPU hit when using 4k or 8k that negate any of the on paper benefits it should give.

First question to ask is if you want hall effect or not. Standard mechanical switches are what you are used to, but in recent years many gaming keyboards have begun using magnetic switches with analog input. This allows for features like rapid trigger or dynamic keystroke. If you want those extra features, then there are a litany of cheap keyboards out there that have them. However, the software for them is not always great. If you want the best software experience, then get a wooting keyboard. Their software really is the best. I've tried a few others from cheap brands and go back to the wooting for the software. But wooting is super pricey. The best I've found that is nearly as good as the wooting with easy to use, nice looking software is nuphy. The only thing wooting beats them with is the ability to map a controller joystick to wasd, which is nice for racing games. But, nuphy claims to be working on this feature right now. And when they do have it, I'll say it's better than my wooting. The air75 he is also the only low profile magnetic keyboard if you want that. Otherwise, the field75 he is a direct competitor to the wooting 80he for a cheaper price with additional macro keys if you find those useful, since your k95 had them as well.

Thoroughly enjoying my Nuphy Field 75 HE.

Honestly, unless you're looking to dump $100+ into a keyboard, HE doesn't make sense. Cheap HE boards are just not it in terms of reliability, build quality, and software experience. The cheapest HE board I can actively recommend is something like a NuPhy Field 75 HE or Air60/75 HE. Keychron's K2 HE or K4 HE are also a steal for what they cost. But it's all preference. Generally speaking, mechanical keyboards still have the upper hand when it comes to sound, and to a degree build quality. But if you're not particular about sound, and you can handle more or less only having linear switch options, HE is fantastic for both work and play.

My Corsair K95 had a row of macro buttons on the left. If you don't mind NOT having a display, there still are some options with extra key. Also don't forget you can remap any key to whatever you want on 99% of gaming keyboards...in game it's pretty hard that you'll need the numpad or the block of page down / up / home / del etc...those alone are 9 buttons (if you include scroll, printscreen etc.). A whopping 17 buttons if you consider your numpad block as a macro pad (but still on the keyboard). So...the only limit is your fantasy. Recently I had my eyes on different mechanical keyboards and the nuphy Field75 HE caught my attention for the looks, but it has also several additional "G" keys (but no numpad).