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

I used the LEADR until it fell apart. After that I switched to the Steelseries Aerox line (a 5 and a 9). It's not the same, but it's been good.

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.