SteelSeries - Aerox 9 Wireless

You will not get the best of both worlds depending on what you want from the productivity side. Does your workflow require or utilize more buttons? Do you care about weight when youre playing games? If the answer is yes, you should just get two cheaper seperate mice. Im sure people will give you good gaming specific reccomendations so I wont get into them. I use a lot of keybinds for productivity to accelerate my workflow, and thats only possible with mice that have more than two side buttons, I've found a few that sort of work for both gaming and productivity: - The G502x is a good balance, but its as heavy as a brick which is fine for some games but I find uncomfortable for FPS. - Lightweight MMO mice like the Steelseries Aerox 9 are great if you need the buttons, and its lightweight but its not suitable for a claw grip let alone a fingertip grip. - The razer Naga has variants with swappable side buttons and depending on your hand they may be suitable grip wise, but id sooner drink paint than recommend them with their issues and they are not worth the cost. I can keep listing reccomendations, but you'll find drawbacks and negatives that will significantly degrade your end experience trying to have a one mice fits all solution, you will constantly be trading away things and in my opinion - no options exist that I can say is worth $150 in value. 2x $75 mice will get you very far, especially in todays markets where Chinese mice are on par if not better than mainstream options in many instances. Ive settled on the G502x for work. The side buttons and the index finger buttons are very useful, but more importantly the scroll wheel has a button to switch to a free spinning wheel, and has side tilt buttons - those two things alone make it extremely useful if you utilize them.

The Steel Series Aerox 8 sucks. If you are used to the Naga going to the Aerox 8 feels like a completely different mouse. Your thumb is not perfectly lined up with the numpad and you need either super long thumbs to reach the front row or super short thumbs to efficiently use the back row. After like a month of fiddling with it, i just gave it away and went back to my old Naga until i had enough for a new one.

If you want the Logitech g600, look up "Logicool g600" on eBay. It's the same mouse, it never got discontinued in Japan, but the name Logitech was taken over there so they had to rebrand for japanese products to Logicool. I tried a Corsair scimitar, Razer Naga, and Steel series Aerox 9 and nome of them held up to the g600 imo

Title really... I have been using a Steelseries Aerox 9 for the longest time (MMO stuff mostly) and have currently fallen out of love with it. After starting to look around I kinda got sucked back into finding a lighter weight mouse, but it looks like a lot of the lightest weights are due to companies sacrificing battery capacity. Are there any sweet spot recommendations that still give me a much better weight than 80-ish grams but a battery life that lasts longer than like 3 days? I don't buy too much into the 8k (and even 4k) polling rates, I don't mind to run it at 1k and keep stuff like tournament mode etc. off Grip wise I have no clear preference, I am somewhere inbetween palm and fingertip I reckon. Ideally it's also using a web interface for changing settings, I am trying to get rid of bloatware software if possible!

Naga and G600 feel pretty interchangeable. Aerox 9 gets hair and stuff stuck inside, especially around the scroll wheel super easily. Corsair stuff always feels cheap. I think G600s are still made for the Japanese market so they're pretty available on ebay.

Hopefully their mmo mouse is a banger. I've tried the nagas, aerox 9, evga x15 and most mmo mice over the years, but there hasn't been much innovation in the mmo mice department, especially in terms of reducing weight while keeping similar form factors / button counts :(

why do you want to replace scimitar? I've used it for 4-5 ish years and it was pretty good, considered buying the second one. I'm using Aerox 9 wireless now, because got it cheap and it's wireless, but if I had to, I'd go back to scimitar any time

I have this, it's a very good mouse although the buttons need about 40% more force to press. The Razer Naga v2 takes barely any force to accurate its buttons so you have to be very precise. The G600 just got things perfect; it's a shame they never made a wireless version.

I absolutely love my Aerox 9, but it suddenly died after 1.5 years. My warranty still covered it and I got a new one. Hope it lasts longer this time.

Got the wow special edition version of this thing despite a bunch of people telling me not to waste my time and it showed up defective brand new out of the box. Is a shame because I really liked the shape and how light it is but the side buttons are absolute crap and looking up the issues I was having with it apparently this is very common where the side buttons have issues and people generally agree they're terrible+ the mouse wheel inevitably has issues. Unfortunately its one of like 4 of peoples only options all of which are similar so... yay.

There's really only 4 from well known brands at this point, all of which are overpriced for what they are and have pretty terrible QC. * Corsair scimitar: This things known for having issues with the plastic that actuates the left right click being too soft so it ends up indenting and then stops working. Scroll wheel also has tons of issues. * Razer naga: Razer is infamous for their horrible QC / quality at this point while often being the most expensive due to riding the name the company made for itself back when it was decent. * Steelseries aerox 9: This ones the only one that is designed to be light weight but its overpriced, the side buttons are crap and often have issues along with the scroll wheel. * Red dragon I forget the number: Its a red dragon so yknow, you get what you pay for, but at least its cheap! Another option is getting the "logicool g600" which is the japanese (iirc) version of the logitech g600 which is no longer sold in the west... but this would probably be a bad option for you as its probably the chunkiest and heaviest of the bunch. The rest are all similarly sized and shaped and none meet all your criteria. The smallest / lightest is the aerox 9 but its also one of the most expensive only beat by razer. Red dragons the cheapest followed by corsair.

Being completely real with you there's very few mmo mouse options left as many have been discontinued and what remains are all QC lottery and all of them have their issues. * You have the razer naga, razer making infamously shit products after having gone through the usual "make good products and then sell to a company that cuts costs while riding the name". * Corsair scimitar, Infamously bad scroll wheel, but you can shift where the thumb buttons are which is neat. The issue mine developed is that the left click stopped working because the plastic they use for the top housing is softer than the switch so the switch digs into it little by little until there isn't enough plastic to push the switch down. Apparently fairly common issue. * Steelseries aerox 9, Only light weight option, best shape out of anything I've had since the original pear shape naga that razer stopped making. Has easily the worst side buttons out of any mmo mouse I've tried... my personal lottery has been that I'm 2 for 2 on steelseries products arriving defective out of the box. * Red dragon makes a couple, I've no experience with them but they're a cheap budget brand. Only one that's probably priced correctly for what it is... which is cheap. * Hedgehog mmo mouse, I just found out this existed a couple days ago have 0 experience with it but its the closest thing you can get to a logitech g600 since they stopped selling them outside of japan. * On that note you can technically get the japanese version of the g600 (the logicool g600) but you gotta order through ebay or something. Not really worth the effort if you aren't attached to this specific mouse. And then if you're interested in some weird things: * Swiftpoint z2, I've never used this and I've done almost no research into it so nothing to say about it. * Azeron cyro, Also never used this but from researching it its apparently very 3d printed (fragile) and has lots of QC issues \*but\* the company seems to have very good / responsive customer service when you do have issues. People also think the mouse wheel is horrifically bad. Pick your poison, its all rng bby. Haven't been able to find a single quality mmo mouse option as of yet.