Rival 3 Wireless

I've tried a lot of mice, and I mostly stick with a Steelseries Rival (version doesnt really matter, as I'll explain in a moment) since I like the shape, they're light enough, and they're cheap as hell. (A wireless v3 is literally 35 bucks: https://steelseries.com/gaming-mice/rival-3?srsltid=AfmBOorw8W07l-lwIpDgqB2ZPC3AqWByfLdRegrBHMc2lKV0abVgA0lj ) When you buy a mouse, you're basically looking at only a few things: weight, shape, sensor, and wireless/wired. Sensors have been "solved" for a long while now. You're going to be hard pressed to find a sensor in a mouse from a major manufacturer that isn't functionally perfect at the speeds an actual human arm can whip it around. And wired/wireless is kind of a checkbox, as latency issues there are also basically solved across the board. So really you're almost entirely looking at shape/weight, which is a personal preference thing. Go find a store that sells a bunch and put your hand on them.

Besides the issues listed, I do like the Rival 3W. It could be taller, as my hand is decently big (idk measurements) but I am also not that bothered by it. I really, REALLY hate the Steelseries GG driver app and its shovel/spyware, but I have heard that the grass is not any greener elsewhere. I really don't care about branding at all, but when I look online I see 1,000 Chinese brands with 12 reviews and names I cant pronounce along side Razer, Corsair etc. Battery life is not a problem if the mouse is USB-C compatible, I just hate burning through 18 packs of AAA every few months. When it comes to mice, I am a huge normie. I am not good enough competitively at any game to care about a lot of features, except polling rate which should not be <1,000hz.

My girlfriend recently took a liking to PC gaming, and while she has always been using mice with computers, it was never to play with, until now. Last week I loaned my spare mouse, which is a Steelseries Rival 3 wireless, which has much softer clicks than my main mouse at home (Pulsar X2 Medium) and she liked the shape and the fact it was much more ergonomics to hold than her office wireless mouse, however she complained multiple times about the clicks being too loud. That kind of took me by surprise, as I mentioned I feel like those clicks are already really soft compared to what I'm used to, so now I'm at a bit of a loss when it comes to mice with really light clicks, it's been years since I've been in the hobby. If anyone has any ideas about mice with really soft clicks? In my head I was looking at Logitech because my last logitech mouse wasn't too loud, but that's really just a start and the market is so large now I don't know where to start.

If these two mice are your only choice get the rival 3 wireless gen 2 it has 2.4ghz and Bluetooth feature while the g305 only has 2.4ghz mode and also has a better battery life. The rival 3 gen 2 is bigger than the g305.

I am just using my steelseries rival 3 that I already had. The drivers are a bit jank on the mac. I could only change things after plugging the dongle. It works fine tho

Funnily, this mouse shows up the battery status in the widgets while my magic mouse 1 does not.