Naga Mouse

So has anybody tried that Naga mouse that we see advertised on the CoX web page? I've been thinking about getting it. Wondering if it works ok with this game.

There is a "Naga Tray" or whatever you can enable if you have the mouse - 1-10 corresponds to the powers in it, 11 & 12 let you cycle through trays.

JohnX, you may want to check out the following thread and video.

The Ravenwolf Review: Razer Naga MMOG Laser Mouse

I picked one up, and I do like it, but...
1. If you leave the LEDs on, it gets very warm under your hand.
2. If you have normal to large adult hands, there is no real safe place to touch the thing without triggering some button.
3. After a week with it, all my USB devices stopped functioning. Turns out my 750w power supply was now shooting 7.8w down the 5w rail, which powers the USB. I ended up getting a new PSU, and that did not solve it. New motherboard is sitting on my table waiting to be installed to see if that fixes it. There may be absolutely no correlation between the new mouse and my mobo's usb function failing... but that was the only thing that changed in a perfectly good 7 month old Father Xmas spec COX machine.

I still like the mouse, though...

I tried the mouse and while I did like it more than I thought I would, I didn't like it more than the ol' trusty Microsoft IntelliMouse that I've been using for a dozen years. I mention the dozen or so years that I've used the other mouse (I literally bought a case of them, I like them so much) because perhaps I'm too set in my ways to adapt to a new one (ya think?). However, like I said, I DID like it more than I thought I would. The reason I eventually sold it to a friend was more or less the shortcomings of it's software with Win7 64 than the physical mouse itself. This was pretty much right when the mouse was released, so perhaps the software issues are better now, I don't know. I remember the Mouse4 and Mouse5 buttons being at a very awkward position up near the left click, and I didn't like that at all since I'm heavily dependent on alt or ctrl Mouse4 or 5 clicks.

If you pick it up from Amazon, you can always send it back if you don't like it.

I just got the Naga Mouse for my Birthday and I have to say I like it alot, the biggest challange so far is getting used to playing with it as it rather forces one to use the wsdaqe system as apposed to up down left right keys (which is probably a good thing since it makes strafing easier).

IMO the major advantages to this mouse are things like:
a faster ability to simply click the enemy of choice and attack.
When you hold down alt or ctrl rather then having to stretch your other finger to like say the 7-0 keys they are right there
also it supports a supper comfortable grip imo

my only real complaint at this point (and this is more having to do with the CoH interface, though they could do something with the mouse programing) is that the Naga's 1-12 keys are mapped automaticly to either the 1-0 and the - = keys up top or on the num pad ( a function of the mouse not CoH), and that the Naga interface window in CoH is auto mapped to the top numbers and there doesn't seem to be a way to make it recognize the keys on the Naga, the top numbers and numpad as individual sets.

So this leves you with 3 options that I have found will work best:
1) Leave the Naga mapped to the top keys w/o the naga interface, using the mouse to activate all powers and simply holding down alt or ctrl to access the 2nd and third treys like you normaly would but the mouse 1-10 replacing the top row with 11 & 12 switching treys
2) Leave the Naga mapped to the top row with the interface on: this defaults what ever is in that trey to the mouse (or top keys) this allows you to really minimize that top trey and flip through your power treys quickly
3) Flip the nagas switch and map it to the num pad w/o the ingame naga interface useing the kry board top keys to access trey 1 (after going in to options and mapping trey 2 to the number pad -I do this alternately so I can still use alt ...if I want to-)and use it for trey 2 and of course the 3rd bard accesed by ctrl + #

this can be fustrating and nice at the same time... it gives ya options, but it also may take a while to find what suits you best.

The one thing that could be improved with this mouse IMO is either for Razer to update the programing to allow you to have the keys on the mouse be there own independent keys from the key board or for CoH (and other game makers who choose utilize this mouse and ones like it) to find a way to program it so that the user can choose to have the game ignore the mapping and treat those 12 keys as there own ....

oh another plus it came with stickers :P (I love stickers :P)

All in all I will have to give this mouse a out of 5

I have, use, and love my Naga. I'm worried that I've spoiled myself for other mice.

The only 'problem' I've had so far is that I find it difficult to use the 7-9 keys accurately. My thumb rests between the 2 and the 5, which I have mapped to Mouse4 and Mouse5. Moving it up or down slightly gives me easy access to the 1/4 set or the 3/6 set. I map these keys to commands I use in combat.

The 10-12 row I map to non-combat commands - 10 is permanently mapped to 'M' which is the map key in Dragon Age, WoW, CoX, and most other games I've played. The 7-9 keys, and the two foremost keys near the very front of the left mouse button, I just ignore; I've got 11 mouse buttons already and it's too hard to hit them precisely due to the shape of my hand.

There can be some set up required to get the mouse working with your game. The software now allows you to remap the buttons from the "1"-"=" default setup, but if you do so you'll also need to remap the keys in game. I have mine bound to the numpad keys and rebind in game commands to numpad in whatever game I'm playing to assign them to mouse buttons.

There's also the special edition Molten and Maelstrom editions coming out next month.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/06/r...mice-too-pret/

I'm hoping to pick up the Maelstrom edition when it becomes available.