Products We Love – Razer Naga, The Ultimate WoW Gaming Mouse

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We’re a big fan of nifty peripherals here at DYS, just in case you hadn’t noticed, but every now and then even we get blown away.  Every month or two we test a new product in the market to see if it offers something more for our readers.  In order to get a review at this site, the thing really has to add something to the wow experience for the novice and pro alike.  Not making our cut doesn’t mean it’s a bad product, just that it doesn’t meet our Dominating and demanding flavor.

But every now and again we come across something that actually changes the way we play.  The Sennheiser headphones are great, but won’t really make you a terrific player.  The G13 game pad will – I still use both of them every single time I play.  But the Razer Naga blows away everything we’ve ever reviewed by such a huge margin that it’s a little hard to know where to start saying just how good it really is.

First things first, then.  It’s a standard size mouse (even though the button field looks pretty intimidating in the pic above) with 12 extra keys on the thumb side (for righties anyway).  That is the big difference between the Naga and every other mouse on the planet.  It has the standard left, right, scroll, scroll click, four and five buttons as most gaming mice – but adds twelve more keys for your thumb.  One look and we KNEW we had to give it a spin.

How Does It Feel?

In just ten seconds it was apparent it was the most comfortable mouse ever.  It’s like holding hands with your sweetheart.  The texture is just smooth enough to be soft, just matte enough to be completely slip free.  Not only do your index and middle finger glide into the perfect rest position, but there is a little shelf for your ring finger and a cup for your pinky that actually make it more relaxing to have your hand on your mouse than anywhere else.  You hate to let go of the thing to type.  So in the tactile area the Naga gets a 10+ out of 10.

Cursor Response

The drivers are super easy to install both on Mac and PC.  The interface is clean and offers a degree of movement control that is nothing short of outstanding.  It supports Dpi ranges from 100 to 5600 – which is a range from nearly dead turtle to fighter jet speed.  You can also adjust the acceleration factor and frequency response over broad ranges.  But the really slick part is that you can set it to control the X and Y axis Dpi independently.  That is a real WoW factor.  If you use a wide screen setup it is so nice to have the cursor move faster from left to right than up and down.  Cursor response and setup = 10 of 10

Movement and Function

Most mice have a few little slip pads on the bottom and a big bright lazer or whatever.  This beauty has a slip ring around the entire perimeter of the bottom, which makes it glide like butter.  It even has an extra slip ring that completely surrounds the invisible lazer orifice.  One thing is for certain, if your mousing surface isn’t completely clean, you’ll know it in about half a second. (we also prefer the Lazer exact mat for all our mice, but it’s especially nice with the Naga).  I prefer a free-wheeling mouse, but since very few have that option I can’t deduct too much for the incremental scroll.  The four and five buttons are right up at the very front and absolutely WILL give your a hand cramp if you try to use them very often, but we’ll get to why this makes almost no difference later.  And, finally the button clicks are easy enough to make without much force, but firm enough to avoid lots of accidental clicks – pretty much perfect.  Movement and function = 9 of 10

Extra Juice

Now we get to the good stuff.  Those 12 extra buttons are so good it’s not even fair to rate this thing against other mice.  It turns all those other mice into meece.  There’s everything else – and then there’s the Naga.  I pitched my G3 in a drawer for good and didn’t have a qualm in the world about doing so – and I loved that mouse.  Even apart from the extended functionality, the Naga is just a much better overall mouse, but those extra keys are WAY past incredible.  And then I played with them.

I fully intended to try to use as little hyperbole as possible, but that’s completely impossible in this situation.  Compared to every other mouse I’ve ever used – and I go through mice like a tomcat, the Naga would have no peer, leaving even the G3 completely in the dust.  But those extra buttons make it so different that it becomes completely unfair to all the other mice in the world.  If the G3 (a really good mouse) rated a 45 out of 50, the Naga (even without the buttons) would have raised the bar to 60, and that’s no kidding.  Those 12 new buttons put the bar at 100, and we’ll put the Naga right there 95 out of 100, which means there really isn’t any way to compare apples to apples.  everything else just got pwned.

That extra button pad automatically binds to either the: 1 through = keys on your keyboard or the number pad keys, whichever you prefer.  I already had bar one and two in Bartender assigned to those suckers as it is, so with the flip of a switch I can use my one mouse to toggle 24 keys – it’s so slick you have to use it to believe it.  And then comes Vuhdo – yikes.

Plug this thing into Vuhdo and you are one little macro command away from complete and total healing Domination.  And, in reality, it could almost make the choice between Healbot, Grid/Clique and Vuhdo closer to meaningless than ever before.  We’ll discuss that macro in the next article since it’s so slick and useful for so many other situations, but just know that you probably would never use it nearly as much without the Naga.

You’re Wasting Time Here!

All there is left to say is get one.  Get one right this minute.  Do not pass go, do not argue, just get it and Dominate.  Ask for it for Thanksgiving, your birthday, Christmas and New Years.  Beg, borrow, cheat, lie, steal or work like a fiend until you can get one.  Get up from your chair right now and go to the store – yes, it’s THAT good.  Once you plug this dude in, you’ll find 50 new ways it can improve your WoW life in about 5 minutes.  I am seriously excited about this thing, as if you couldn’t tell, but it really is the single best gaming peripheral I have ever seen.

If you can’t stand it, and we’ve done our job, you can click on the pic at the top of this article (or below) to go directly to Amazon and get one for yourself.  You don’t have to use our link, of course, but honestly, once you use the Naga you’ll never know how you played with anything else.   Go get one, and bring your Domination to a whole new level of pwn.

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A New Realm Is About To Find Out Who Moneybaggins REALLY Is

There is a way to make gold in WoW that is so easy you’ll never believe it.  You probably don’t know it exists because you would think that anyone who would make this opportunity available just ain’t right in the head.  But it happens all the time.  If you’re leery about becoming an auction house guru, this is the place to start.  You might catch a fever for it if you try this one small taste for a while.

I took a lot of heat last week for talking bad about Jewelcrafting and then again here.  It’s like I was bad-mouthing somebody’s sister or something.  I was accused of using stupid arguments and being an idiot and some other things that I’ve already blown off.  But one dude apparently thought I was worthless because I banged on JC but didn’t give an alternative, therefore I suck.

I can live with that, and far be it from me to not give out a good tip.  And to a degree he was right, in spite of the fact that we’ve been handing out free tips here for three years.  What have you done for me lately eh?  Fine.  The problem is that the only reasonable way to teach people how to work the AH is to make them commit to it completely.  And the only way they will even come close to committing to learning the process is to pay to learn the process.

For those of you unwilling to do so, we feed you the best we can.  The system is incredibly complex, but we’ve boiled it down to a few clicks here and a few clicks there.  It couldn’t be any easier, but you do have to read through all 130+ pages and work at it pretty good every day for a month to get it down.  It’s not for everybody, but everybody who does it our way makes more gold faster than anything else they’ve ever done before.

We used to be a little secretive about our methods, but we’ve figured out that even AH pros don’t do everything we do.  The guy who isn’t even close to ruling the AH isn’t going to figure out the whole system from a tip here and there straight from the guide.  It’s a system that took us over two years of research to develop and over 130 pages to explain.

So here is one of our favorite steps – it’s the very first thing we do every single day.  We never EVER skip this one.  It won’t make you a ton of gold, but it’s the safest investment you can possibly make.  as a matter of fact – it’s the only market play we will ever recommend that has absolutely ZERO risk involved.  You CANNOT lose gold on this one.

You’ll need AADV (Auctioneer Advanced) and it doesn’t hurt to have Lil’Sparky’s and ATSW (Advanced Trade Skill Windows), but they are not necessary for this step.  But you can’t do without AADV.  It’s the back bone of everything we do.  Without it you can’t do this at all, there is no way.  With it, the whole world becomes a veritable tree from which to pick glorious bunches of golden fruit.

Yeah it’s cheesy as hell, but it’s the truth.  You can run around farming all you want, I’ll do my 15 minutes at the AH and make the same amount of gold (or more than likely a LOT more) thank you very much.  Anyway, load up AADV, fire up the game and then run straight to the AH.

The next cool thing about this tip is that you can do it while you build your database.  Normally we recommend people do nothing at all with AADV for a week or two except scan.  This is the only exception.  You can start doing this day one.

Open up the auction window at your favorite auction house and the hit the little Fastforward button (yellow circle) at the top of the AADV window and tell it you don’t care if it boots you off.  If you’re on a slow connection you might never get the fast scan to work, if that’s the case just hit the regular play button (red circle) and go grab a drink or something.

Once you’re done with that just right click (that’s RIGHT CLICK) the little magnifying glass (green arrow) to open up the window where we basically print money all day long.  Click on Searchers (red arrow) and then select Vendor (yellow arrow) from the list.  Set your vendor Minimum profit to 10s and the minimum discount to .5% (that’s point 5 percent, NOT five percent).

Leave Allow Bids and Allow Buyouts checked and then just hit Search near the bottom left.  Your screen will fill up with possibly the most amazing opportunity to make crazy gold off of folks just not using their heads you’ve ever seen.  There is simply no duplication for this is real life.  If there was I wouldn’t be writing articles about WoW let me assure you.

The things you see in the list below are items that people have listed on the Auction House for sale BELOW their vendor value.  Catch that?  It means you can buy them from the AH, turn around and sell them to a Vendor nearby for a profit.  How silly easy is that?  All we have to do to bid or buyout every single one of these items is hold down Ctrl+Shift+Alt and hit the “Purchase ALL” button.  In this case we spent 20g, 92s, 62c on 18 items with a vendor value of 28g, 47s, 49c.  And yes, you have to spam click the “Yes” button on each one, there is no way around it without botting and getting banned.

It only takes about 2 min to scan the AH, another 12 seconds to scan for vendor, a minute or so to hit Yes a few dozen times and then you can go back to doing dailies or mining or whatever else you’re going to do today.  But I just made about 8 gold in 4 minutes.  And I was writing this article as I did it.  Now I can log out and go back to work on the podcast and the Alliance leveling guide.

The above example is on a very low pop server.  On high pop realms there may be hundreds of items for vendor.  I consistently make over 50 gold a day on one of my bankers from this little trick alone.  For the AH nub or new toon on a new server this is the easiest way to turn 10 gold into 100 gold in a week we’ve ever found.

And because you are bidding or buying these items below vendor cost, you simply cannot lose a single copper in the process.  If someone outbids you above vendor price you just get your investment back and no harm done.  If you buyout the item you can get your gold back plus a bit from a vendor in about 20 seconds.  It’s simply amazing how much gold you can actually make from this.

I find that on average I make a good 100-200 gold a week on every banker I have that does this several times a day.  That’s like doing an extra 5-10 dailies every week, or mining for an hour or two.  Plus I probably only spent about 20 minutes total on the whole deal which means that gold per hour spent earning it is still way higher than anything else I might be doing.

Now, buying for vendor is only one tiny part of our complete system.  But if I told you that there were dozens of ways and thousands of items that could turn you profits just like this for such a teeny tiny bit of time would you want to know how we do it?

That’s the perspective I’m coming from when I say farming is schlub work.  That’s what I mean when I say JC is a little too much on the work side.  If I can make a couple hundred gold here for 10 minutes worth of clicking, and a couple hundred there and a couple thousand over there and . . . .why would I spend time buying, prospecting, selling, making, de’ing and reselling THOSE mats when I can do the same things and make even MORE gold by just flipping all that around just a little bit.

I buy ore all the time, but I never prospect it for gems.  if I get it at a low price my best gold per hour spent is to merely resell it at the right price.  If I want more enchanting mats to seel or more things to DE I don’t go make them I buy the greens.  I don’t ever sell gems because they deposit costs hurt my feelings – there are simply too many other things that have very low or no deposit costs out there to make it worth taking a 15% profit margin for an hour of my time when I can do a dozen other things that will get me a 25% or higher margin for 15 minutes of my time.

Normally the profession that’s best for crafting to DE is Tailoring (yes, I will explain why next week).  The profession that makes the most consistent high profits (for actually making things to sell) is Alchemy, the profession that means the most work for the lowest return is normally Leatherworking, but those are just averages and your server may be different.  But no matter what server I’m on I can earn thousands of gold every week with only one profession using the techniques we’ve honed until a toad could use it – and JC isn’t in it.  Matter of fact, I don’t even have a JC on any realm (although I will soon have several of them, but not to make gold – for the tasty +a ton to stat X ).

You can learn everything we do in the Auction House Mastery Guide.  But at least this way you can see what we mean by free money.  People are just giving it away basically.  And you don’t even have to work for it.  All you do is clicky-clicky, and it rolls in.  Try this one out for a while and see.  It won’t waste more than a few minutes of your time and just might convince you that there really IS a much more Dominating way to make gold in World of Warcraft.

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Product Review of the Nostromo n52te – OR – Strangest Mother’s Day Ever

Now don’t expect us to do this very often.  It’s not every week we run across a killer product.  As a matter of fact it normally comes as a result of something strange happening.

Recently, as I stated in our last product review I was searching for a peripheral to allay some deficiencies I have in mousing.  PvP deficiencies for the most part since I had gotten quite used to using a pad on my right hand.  But it just wasn’t cutting it for PvP.

So I went searching for something that would replicate the ease and convenience of my Fang without replacing it completely.  Enter the Logitech G13 and Nostromo n52te game pads.  While the G13 is by far my favorite of the three, the n52te is not far behind and might actually be preferred by some.  You can read the entire review for the G13 HERE.  And here is the skinny on the n52.

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I was loving my G13, and it was causing some degree of jealousy around the house.  PetitePowerhouse was struggling along on her little Mac laptop, and it made it difficult as her toons got more and more skills.  You see, for the person who is NOT used to toggling abilities without modifiers, it’s a real reach to teach them to do so WITH modifiers.

I can set up all the action bars in the world for a beginner, but with no clean way to toggle all those abilities they can now see very clearly, it’s not much help.  So Petite looked longingly at the shiny new G13 and gave me the “if you loved me you would take care of your poor old mother” look.

Well, mothers day was coming up and I wanted to see whether the n52 was as good as the G13.  She was thrilled with it and it has really helped her – a LOT.  It certainly doesn’t play the game for her, but the difference in her speed and reaction to situations has increased dramatically.

Now she has a row of buttons for attack, a row for heals and another row for the “oh crap” stuff.  “OH CRAP” has now become “HAHA!”  It’s hilarious to hear her woot instead of growl now.  And the n52 is the biggest reason for this.  I’m not sure the G13 would have been quite the same solution either, and here’s why:

The n52 is smaller than the G13.  For people with little hands it is far easier to reach everything.  Personally I find it a little confining.  The difference is only 7 buttons, but that can be a lot at level 80.  That being said, you could easily combine a few keys by using macros if you like and the n52 software certainly makes building macros fairly easy.

The software for the Nostromo unit is not quite as user friendly as the Logitech offering but it is easy enough to figure out and provides the same level of power programming – perhaps more.  It is not as visually intuitive, and you have to actually create a ‘macro’ for anything more than a single keystroke, but in the long run that is actually an advantage instead of a drawback.  Since you are forced to program macros from the start it’s a breeze to program them for everything else.

The n52 is a bit smaller and very comfortable in the hand.  The keys have a nice feel and it’s simple to get your fingers in the right spot on the rows.  It also has three profiles, although switching isn’t quite as simple.  I like the thumb buttons a little better on the n52 as compared to the G13.

Now when it comes to overall build quality I still say nothing comes close to the G13.  That sucker feels like it’s made of steel.  It’s heavy and solid and just a little sexy.  The n52 is lighter and a touch more “plastic” overall, but quite a bit better than the Fang.

Think of it this way: the G13 is the Rolls Royce of pads, the n52te is a Cadillac, the Fang – a Chevy.  They are all three very functional and fine products.  I can see there being a few long term survivability issues with the n52 (and most certainly the Fang) with rough use, but outside of a hammer attack I don’t think you can hurt the G13.

The G13 has that sleek “expensive” look and feel, with all the bells and whistles.  If game pads could be a chick magnet it would be one.  The n52 is also pretty slick, but with a more “American” or less refined quality.  It’s leather but it’s not Corinthian hand sewn leather.  The Fang is cloth seats and rubber floor mats.

They all drive extremely well, they all get you where you want to go.  It just depends on how much style you want to travel in.  So for picky players with hands large enough to handle it, there is no beating the G13.  For those with smaller hands who use a lot of macros as well as beginners and non power players, it’s the n52te by far.  For the price conscious and left hand keystroke movers, the Fang will serve you very well.

PetitePower certainly looks like she knows what she’s doing now.  Her setup with the sleek little black Mac laptop combined with a sleek little black n52 game pad and sleek little laser mouse is kinda cool.  Not that it impresses anyone but us, but she certainly doesn’t set up like a nub.  And after a few days with the Nostromo she’s playing less like one.

The price for the n52te is about the same as the G13, so you’ll have to decide on ascetics, functionality, or quality.  Remember, small hands will like the n52, and fewer buttons may be better for the newer player.  Whereas the power gamer with larger hands will more than likely prefer the G13.  Again you can check out our review of the G13 here.

Weird mothers day?  You bet it was, but anything she wants that gets me some good son points is pretty Dominating in my book, especially if I don’t have to go jewelry shopping.  WoW peripherals for mothers day – priceless.

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