Razer Naga Trinity evaluation: an MMO gaming mouse that is not a nightmare with different genres

Creating a gaming mouse purely designed for MMO, and latterly nascent MOBA, gamers was a sensible thought, and the Razer Naga has lengthy been synonymous with many-buttoned rodents because it was launched virtually a decade in the past. But whereas having extra buttons than you’ve digits arrayed round your thumb is nice for some video games, for different it simply will get in the way in which. The Razer Naga Trinity, nonetheless, has solved that drawback.

The most acquainted Razer Naga design options 12 buttons in the identical place because the now-traditional again/forwards buttons often sit. When you’re attempting to nail all of your buffs, spells, and no matter else these MMO people love to do, all these further buttons permit you glide by your digital world together with your thumb a blur of constructive motion.

But exterior of it you’ll rapidly discover your thumb bashing in opposition to an errant button while you don’t imply to, unintentionally sending a string of numbers and modifiers over e-mail or no matter chat messenger you occur to be rocking on the time. 

And that’s extremely irritating. If you’re a hardcore MMO/MOBA participant then likelihood is that you simply’ll suck it up and preserve religion together with your devoted 12 button rodent. But different firms have been in search of to unravel the issue of untamed thumb strikes by taking the unconventional step of not having so many buttons.

The SteelSeries Rival 500 is a great possibility, leaving solely 5 buttons by your chunkiest digit whereas including extra both aspect of the principle left and proper mouse buttons. They name the 12-button grid ‘antiquated’ and declare they’re rethinking the thumb. And, till now, that made it our favorite MMO/MOBA mouse.

Roccat’s Nyth additionally made stab at it, providing completely different covers for the 12-button grid which meant you would restrict the quantity out there at anybody time.

But Razer’s wonderful $99 (£100) Naga Trinity goes one other step additional. It nonetheless gives the identical clear design round the remainder of the mouse chassis, to relaxation a weary paw atop, however provides you extra choices across the thumb. You can, in fact, persist with the tried and examined (and doubtlessly extremely annoying) 12-button array, however Razer have created immediately hot-swappable sides for the Naga Trinity permitting you to tug all the aspect panel off and exchange it right away.

It’s magnetically hooked up with a set of 16 contact factors on the detachable panel and 16 corresponding pins on the within of the chassis itself. The Naga Trinity comes with three completely different panels, the Naga-standard 12-button panel, a conventional two-button (ahead/again) design, and a seven-button setup in a wheel formation as a midway home in between the opposite two.

It does clearly work with Razer’s Chroma lighting, so you possibly can have your rodent lit up the way you so want, it makes use of Razer’s personal mechanical switches and has the now-classic 16,000 dpi optical sensor that we’ve come to anticipate from virtually all gaming mice round proper now. It is, in fact, denoted as Razer’s personal, however we might guess that it is solely a really slighty tweaked model of an present sensor.

This all makes the Naga Trinity an extremely versatile gaming mouse. It’s not simply  an MMO/MOBA mouse, it’s usable for something you do together with your PC and able to making that change right away.

It’s swift, correct, and pleasingly snug too. The chunky, wide-boy design might be most suited to a palm grip, however whilst a dyed-in-the-wool claw grip gamer I discovered it properly balanced and nonetheless suited my play fashion.

I’m an enormous fan of the brand new Naga, which is sort of one thing contemplating I’ve by no means been notably keen on them previously. But the Trinity design has made it virtually unimaginable to not love.

SE7EN.WS verdict: 9/10