Razer unveils special edition Naga MMO gaming mice

by Zach Yonzon Oct 5th 2010 at 7:00PM

How do you improve on awesome? That's a tough question, but the clever folks at Razer seem to have come up with an answer: Add some molten lava or a raging maelstrom. The gaming peripherals manufacturer announced today the Razer Naga Molten and Razer Naga Maelstrom special edition mice. Both mice sport the same specs as the original 17-button Razer Naga plus the addition of new, pulsating designs -- a swirling, cool blue maelstrom or glowing hot lava. If the themes seem familiar, it's probably no coincidence that these mice arrive just in time for Cataclysm, which is set to launch on Dec. 7.

The Razer Naga is designed specifically for MMO gaming, with a special addon for World of Warcraft, allowing players to bind their spells and abilities to the mouse's numerous buttons. The mouse also supports key mapping, the way most full-featured gaming mice can be configured, and also comes with drivers for the Mac. The new designs take the place of the current pulsating Razer logo on the palm end of the mouse, adding a different level of cool to the popular mouse. Either version of the special edition Razer Naga gaming mouse will retail for $79.99 -- about the same price as the regular version -- and will become available for pre-order on Oct. 12.

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Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)

roellish Oct 5th 2010 8:57PM

This is the first time I have regretted purchasing a Naga. The molten design is awesome and I want one.

Evi Oct 5th 2010 9:16PM

My first thought was "aww, 'his and hers' models". I'm such a dork. But I really don't need that many buttons on my mouse!

junglenutz04 Oct 6th 2010 12:43AM

I love my naga, only complaint is there is no other option besides blue, which is kind of limiting when you want to get a matching keyboard

is that purple lighting on the Maelstrom one?

Mahgo Oct 6th 2010 1:00AM

On the US store, it costs $79.99 USD, and on the Australian store, it costs $149. 80 USD = ~82 AUD. Go figure. Mind you, these two prices are both excluding shipping costs.

Luis Alluren Oct 6th 2010 2:12AM

Looks good to me- I'll just pass on my 2 month old naga to my gf and get that blueish one for me- as for the lycosa, tarantula was 10 times better and the idiots discontinued it

p.s. - their add-on sucks- I macro'ed the keys and then bound them- 10 times more effective and you don't need to stick with their add-on to change all bars if you don't want to

HisDivineShadow Oct 6th 2010 3:01AM

I just got a regular Naga not too long ago myself. I considered selling this one for one of the SE's, but I looked a bit closer at them. The Molten one is hot, but it's the wrong color for me. Everything I've got is blue, black, or silver. Keeping with that, the red of the molten is off. I look at the maelstrom and what I realize is that while the swirl is blue, the actual numbers and wheel are white. Or so they appear. Perhaps they are a very, very pale blue, but it's so close to white as to not match my laptop or n52te.

I also got my Naga on sale, so considering the color mismatch, I said, "meh." I think a lot of people are seeing the swirling pattern and assuming that Razer made the buttons and wheel a blue that would go with the Maelstrom when in fact they went white to give it some difference from the standard Naga.

And to anyone that would care about color, it appears the Maelstrom's buttons and wheel are white. To some, it will matter. I prefer the blue. One of these days, they'll just make the Naga's capable of switching colors. :P (I'm just glad they didn't update these Naga to better models (with improvements) or I would definitely have swapped it out.)

Luis Alluren Oct 7th 2010 5:03AM

I guess I was wrong- they did brought back the tarantula keyboard... with a facelift too...

Juzelle Oct 6th 2010 3:44AM

I was always a fan of the Lachesis, personally :3

Dreyja Oct 6th 2010 4:45AM

Oh hey, also a great mouse!

Mieu Oct 6th 2010 7:44AM

A word of warning to healers who want to buy this mouse--The 12 buttons do not work with Clique, at ALL.

Literaltruth Oct 6th 2010 8:43AM

You mean for click-casting? Well, technically they don't count as mouse buttons so you're right. However, you can just assign the numkeys to an action bar and set them up as macros with the spells you want to use and @mouseover macros. e.g. /cast @mouseover Prayer of Healing. That way if you press one of the buttons and you are over a raid/unit frame it will effectively be the same as click-casting with them.

Sunhead Oct 6th 2010 10:35AM

Did you follow the instructions on the Clique page on curse?
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/clique.aspx
REMOVE ALL OS based keymapping and enable the gaming mouse features in WoW. If you do both of these then WoW can actually see all of the buttons on the mouse rather than have the driver make them pretend to be keyboard shortcuts.
By default the drivers make the extra buttons work like keyboard shortcuts.

chucklez81 Oct 6th 2010 1:39PM

Works with grid, and works even better with grid+mouseover commands.

emailleal Oct 6th 2010 8:42AM

This was a nice mouse while it worked ,before the keyboard stopped responding. Customer service was horrific,stopped responding to requests for assistance.

acopestake Oct 6th 2010 9:22AM

I had a Naga, and it was a great mouse, but I started getting an annoying bug when ever I would turn on my PC it would need to have the mouse drivers manually uninstalled and then reinstalled otherwise it would not detect movement.

all the buttons worked, left right middle 0-9 but no movement, I got in touch with razer and I got no feed back what so ever.

attached the mouse to my wifes computer and it did the same thing after about a month.

I would only recommend this mouse to people who have the disposable income enough to buy another mouse in a month or two

I was lucky and got the WoW Steelseries mouse for my birthday in August. Never had an issue with it.

I was lucky and got the WoW Steelseries mouse for my birthday in August. Never had an issue with it.

chucklez81 Oct 6th 2010 1:38PM

aw damn it, I just bought my Naga a few months ago.

The Razer Naga is a game changer, yes it's expensive, but I'm a cheapskate and I would honestly recommend this mouse to anybody.

Just don't ever buy a Razer keyboard, I have a lycosa as well, like someone mentioned above... but I have the "fixed" version they claimed, and I still get stuck/unresponsive keys. I'm pretty sure Razer keyboards are responsible for at least 50% of all raid wipes world wide.

Chirri Oct 8th 2010 6:50AM

If the Naga didn't make my hand uncomfortably warm, I'd be much more interested in these (my Logitech G9 died on me, and I borrowed my husband's Naga for a bit - sadly, the Naga was too warm for me, and we got Logitech to replace my mouse with their current G9x model - which doesn't warm my hand, and has the option of two grips, the pitted one being my grip of choice).

Maelstrom is quite pretty, the molten one is rather spiffy looking. But they both make my hands sad. (I also couldn't quite get the hang of the Forward and Back buttons, but the other thumb buttons were spiffy!)

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