High-performance Gaming Mouse El'druin That Specializes in Leetgion Rpg

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Great Build quality, good response time, high dpi, 4 different profiles to rebind keys to. (and easy to switch between).Great choice of switch out-able paddings for different sized hands or preferences on the two textures. (hard plastic versus a slightly texturized semiharder plastic- It's not like some of the Razer products where it feels like a soft rubber type plastic which is nice since the softer plastic textures tend to fade and need to be cleaned more often.)Do not be mistaken by the Double sided circle pads. only the left one is 4-way directional with a click in button as well. (5 key pad?). The right one is for adjusting the DPI or other settings if you rebind it on on the fly(the Side scroller can only be rebound to one key though - so you can't have say page up and page down, just one of those- but by default the DPI up and down does work.).The Right side circle pad does click in for another button. ( I hardly use it if ever though, besides for launching to my desktop or alt tabbing since your pinky requires a bit of force to click it in.)But otherwise. This works great. I'm using it with a Razer OrbWeaver Keypad.I wanted a more "Analog" Style feel, with how controllers have two analog sticks for movement and for controlling your camera/vision.I ended up keeping the standard mouse controls for camera, and using the 4 day directional pad for moving back and forward for the bottom and back keys, and using the top and right keys for shift and tab to toggle my Orbweaver's other keybinding layouts.And I use my orbweavers directional 8 pad for most movement. (or mouse depending on the game; flight sims such as Elite: Dangerous, I'm using the 8 directonal pad for pitching and yawing of your vehicle for lefts and rights, and throttles for top and bottom, while I'm using the 4 day directional on the mouse to use it for vertical movements such as the ship you control to enable your thrusts to move up down left or left, and using part of the orbweaver's keys to act as a shift for some other directions for thrust to be used in. - which so far has been working very well w/o having to opt for a joystick. However I do miss using the 4 way pad for shifting my orbweavers keys over...so I may have to rearrange how my setup is with how many keybindings Dangerous: Elite can use.)5/5:Only 1 hicup that could bring it down to a 4 and half out of 5, would be the small software hiccups that don't apply/change over right away.Sometimes after I change keybindings on some profiles and hit apply I have to repeat that more then a few times to work, and on some rare occasions I've had to restart my computer for them to take effect. It's not that bad since I run an SSD so it only takes a matter of seconds to reboot. And you don't normally rekeybind profiles all that often unless you're trying out a new game.All in all; there's really nothing else like this that has a very easy to use directional pad on a mouse; that isn't the standard D-Pad setup of up down left right arrows. The directional pad works very well, and requires little to no force to activate the keys, besides the click in functions of the pads; they're a little harder to click in so the click in function isn't the best for keybindings you'll need to use on the fly. (more like menu keys and such or toggle keys).I really wish other manufacturer's would look into mouses like this. I understand Razer and Logitech and etc. using the MMO mice with a huge number of buttons, but those really restrict your mouse movement as you use them since you're applying counter force to what you're doing, as to this mouse the keys are sensitive and more then ergonomic enough to keep using the mouse's essential functions while using the directional keys easily. I'd actually like if there was also a left handed version to give it a try using two.If Leetgion(the manuf.) wanted to make this even better;I'd say if this ever gets a newer model; and 8 way directional pad would make this a must have for any of my gaming setups.*edit:Software is being very very buggy and unresponsive when I'm changing the keybindings to new ones. After numerous reinstalls/reboots and manual registry edits, the mouse still thinks the keys are bound to the previous ones. This make the mouse more frustrating then convenient due to the lousy software, and little to no support from the manufacturer.