M913 Impact Elite

My last three mice have come from Redragon (M901 Perdition, M908 Impact, and now the M913 Impact Elite Wireless). The Perdition was a good mouse for what I paid for it, but I probably wouldn't recommend it any more (and I'm pretty sure the model was discontinued anyway). Whatever process they used to texture the plastic made it really flaky. The M908/M913 Impact mice are much better. I replace my mouse every 5 years or so. The wired Impact is dirt-cheap and the wireless version won't break the bank either. And I've most often had to replace due to fraying braided cables so now that I have the wireless one it might last longer. And it still comes with all the features like profiles and RGB lighting and fancy software, and unlike the Naga I once had (which was admittedly over a decade ago so this might have changed), you don't need to have the software running to have the full functionality of the mouse. Just set up everything how you want it and you never have to launch it again.

I wanted an MMO mouse with 12 side buttons, so I use a Redragon M913 Impact Elite mouse. Very nice mouse for the price, but impossible to configure on Linux. I don't recommend it if you don't want to boot into Windows just once to configure it. I'm thinking of swapping it for a Corsair Scimitar at some point, as while it doesn't officially support Linux, there *are* unofficial config tools for Corsair hardware. My keyboard is a Realforce R3S. Very nice, probably too expensive due to the Topre switches, but it's literally just a keyboard with no lighting or macro keys, so no configuration software needed.

Yikes, I just got a Scimitar. Hopefully it lasts longer than yours. The Redragon M913 is pretty good. I've had a couple and they seemed to last longer than the other mice I've tried so far. Good build quality for the price. If my Scimitar breaks early I'll probably go back to another M913.

I never had a G600 (missed my chance), but I've used several other MMO mice. Razer Naga, Corsair Scimitar Wireless, and a few different Redragon mice. Of them all, my Redragon M913 is easily the best. No pinky button, but I use Ctrl and Shift as modifiers for different hotbars instead. You could toss Alt in as another one but I found it a little awkward to reach mid-combat. The Naga barely lasted a couple years and I hated the software. This was like fifteen years ago though; I don't know what might have changed since then. The Scimitar would have been great, but the wireless dongle had some kind of hardware or firmware issue that ended up causing intermittent crashes in my display driver that sometimes took down the whole computer. Took *months* to figure out the cause because I didn't think a mouse could do that. It was probably a distant outlier though because I can't find anyone else online who says they had the same issue. I've had three Redragon mice, all different models. So far, the first two (M901 and M908) lasted about five years before suffering some kind of wear-and-tear to the point where I wanted a new one. For a sub-$50 mouse, five years is more than good enough. If the 5-year pattern holds true, my third one (M913) should last until 2030 since I bought it last year.