Redragon M901 Gaming Mouse RGB Backlit MMO 18 Macro Programmable Buttons with Weight Tuning Set, 12400 DPI for Windows PC Computer (Wired, White)
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Dave
Greater than one weekI have tried multiple mice with the 12 thumb buttons. I did not like them Buttons too soft, cheap feeling, ect... This Red Dragon Perdition is hands down the best I have used. Great for all the extra buttons needed for Fort Night. Buttons have a good textile feel, but not clicky or loud. ALL buttons are programmable, including the DPI buttons. AWESOME! Because once I got my DPI set where I want I reassign those 2 buttons for reloading, freeing up another more convenient button for something else. This is my second one. First one lasted about 2-2.5 years and the only thing happened is the red rapid fire button stopped working. I use that for my interact button, opening doors and picking stuff up. So it is a well used button. Every day, sometimes all day long. Very easy to program macros and different profiles for Fort Night, PubG, COD ect... I used the first one so much I wore out 3 sets of pads on the bottom. Finally I took drops of epoxy and made pads that dont wear out. Having the custom weights are a big help. I use all of them. Makes a smoother pivot and better pin point stops when micro aiming. If its too light its hard to control as well. My only complaint is the cord. Its a nice, sturdy cord. Braided and high quality. But these braided cords are stiff. I would like a cord that is more like a wet noodle. But there is no corded gaming mouse with a soft noodle like cord so have to live with it. No latency at all, the mouse is as smooth as silk. Highly recommend for gaming.
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KJK
> 3 dayI must clarify in advance, this mouse only lasted me about a year and a half. The left mouse button is deteriorating and having trouble confirming clicks, but Id expect this wear to happen sometime after 2 years, not a year and a half. I would rate this mouse 3 and a half stars rather than 4, but it was better than just okay besides this current issue. I used it for hours on end, everyday, and besides the left mouse button having difficulties starting to pop up now, the mouse was very, very easy to use and despite myself having pretty small hands it wasnt hard to utilize. I never had any wrist issues that Id consider coming from this mouse. Some pros: - Very clean, expensive feel on the plastic. It never felt cheap, no matter how much use, and has a very soft texture to it that isnt too rough or too smooth. - Always felt responsive enough from the games I used to play it with. WoW and Overwatch are two big contenders. The mouse played perfectly on them and I never felt like I was having an issue due to the mouse itself. - The lighting effects on the mouse are, for some people, a big bonus. But I played with them for about a week and eventually stopped caring for them. It is definitely useful for playing in the dark, however. - Its incredibly easy to pick up where your thumb is on the number pad. There are two bumps on the 5 and 9 keys which are enough to tell you where you want your thumb to click. Rarely have I made a mistake when I got the muscle memory down. - The design is sleek and pleasant to look at. - Beyond the left click deterioration, the mouse survived MUCH abuse from frustration and anger from someone with depression and anxiety. Very, very sturdy. Cons: - Like I said, the left mouse button is beginning to deteriorate after a year and a half. This might be repairable, but Im no electronics expert and in some cases it might be cheaper just to buy a new mouse entirely rather than send it in for a repair. - While the number pad was easy to pick up, pressing the buttons themselves was a hassle and requires a bit of extra force than I expected. Sometimes this will cause your cursor to move a couple pixels or so due to the force, and while this seems like a nonissue, some games require a lot of precision. If you play a game like that, youd better work out your fingers or get a mouse that doesnt require much effort to be put into the number pad.
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Kenneth
> 3 day2018 Update: After trying to replace this with a Corsair Scimitar - I just cant do it. The ergonomics of the Red Dragon have spoiled me. The lightness and preciseness are still better. The numpad on the sides design should simply be a standard at this point, and the rough coating means it never gets slippery from my greasy mitts.I just wish the mouse wheel wasnt failing. After buying a second I noticed its mousewheel feels as it should and was a little disappointed. The vendor requested I write a review, so here are my observations. For the price it is almost difficult to write anything negative about this device - you probably wont find a better one for the MMO niche that performs as well at said price. The tracking is very good, maybe better than any mouse Ive used, and Ive owned mice from XAI, Logitech and Razer. It even works on less-than-perfect surfaces. The bundled software is polished and functional. The main buttons have a great feel. Id even say the main two mouse buttons should be a benchmark for the perfect amount of clickiness and actuation pressure those buttons should have...for any mouse. The scrolling action of the wheel also has a great feel. The construction overall is solid, there is no flex. All is not perfect. The trigger button next to the first mouse button isnt recognized by any game Ive tried other than as Mouse 1. I honestly dont understand its purpose at all other than as a gimmick. The side buttons are too far back to make any of the last buttons useful. They also are too tough to actuate without moving the mouse around. Clicking the scroll button is hit or miss-- sometimes it clicks how it should and other times it takes a ridiculous amount of pressure to actuate. The latter could have most people write this mouse off immediately, and thats a shame. I took the weights out because it made the mouse feel unnecessarily heavy and caused it to pivot around the axis where they are located. Overall: good mouse, though slightly flawed. Has a funky, skateboard deck texture. Feels like it would outlast a Naga, which might be enough for some to put up with its foibles. I like the tracking so much Im even using it with FPSes, so I guess thats saying something. Hopefully the next model has a better wheel.
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Lee
> 3 dayPros: -The $30ish dollar pricetag for this makes it easily half the price of its main competitor, the Razer Naga. I feel like Nagas quality has been going downhill the last few years, and a Naga Razer was only lasting me around 12 months with every day normal use. Im not mean to my mice, the Naga just didnt hold up. I gambled on this because I thought, Even if this DOES break after a year, thats way better than paying $80+ for the same amount of use from a Naga. I got a few years of use out of my M901 and when I had a minor issue with it, I immediately replaced it with another. -It has mappable buttons, you can remap these to whatever your heart desires. I predominantly use this an an MMO gaming mouse to play FFXIV, and its perfect for that. I admittedly dont use most of the buttons except for the numberpad ones on the side, but its useful for that. -Speaking of the side buttons, they have a nice sort of concave/inverted tip to them, and this makes them very easy to use and differentiate which rows your on. -Its a little on the smaller side, which for myself (a person with small hands that most gaming mice arent designed for) is actually a very nice perk. Bigger mice make my carpal tunnel worse, so this slightly smaller one is nice. -They recently started packaging these in reusable tacklebox type cases so if you want to travel with it, it very neatly fits in this compact hard case. -It has weights in it, so you can get a more custom feel out of your mouse. Cons: -I dont particularly like the rough texture that they coat it with, it makes my hands feel oddly dry, a bit like touching the rougher sort of microfiber clothes. Its not a dealbreaker for me, and after a few months of use, it will wear down enough its less noticeable. -Even with my small hands, I sometimes find my pinky can drag a little off the side, so just be aware of that if its a thing that bothers you. This might heavily depend on how you hold your mouse too, so this may just be a me thing, and I definitely dont hold it against Red Dragon. --- This is the second one of these Ive owned, and I only replaced the first one because after years of use, it started to hold left click a little bit, which was really only noticeable when I was highlighting text to copy/paste. Im sure this is an easily fixable issue, and it didnt even do it that often, but I didnt want to mess with it too much considering I can just get a brand new one for $30. All in all, Red Dragon is making very good quality products at a fraction of Razers price tag, so if youre wanting to try a gaming mouse but dont have the dosh to fork over for other Razers products, seriously consider giving Red Dragon products a try. The price tag makes this a very nice entry level for anyone even looking to try a MMO-style gaming mouse.
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Dru
> 3 daySo my Razer Naga died a spectacular death on raid night of all nights and I couldnt find a replacement in town. I came here to get a new one and nearly ordered the Logitech mmo mouse but saw this one and decided to take a chance on this one. Truth be told, I was kind of afraid at first - it is a gaming mouse made in China to compete with Razer and Logitech from a company Ive never heard of. Its a beautiful little mouse for the price. The Perdition has a nice feel to it. The weights came in my mouse and I havent removed any as I like it to have a bit of weight so it doesnt go sailing off my desk (the teflon pads are really slippery) and the mouse itself has a nice pebbled coating that just feels nice. The DPI is extremely easy to turn up and down (16400 is kind of high - a slight twitch will send it flying - but you can change it from the mouse itself so its really simple to play with. To be honest, this mouse arrived 5 minutes before the start of my second raid in WoW. I installed the software off of Redragons site and I plugged this mouse in and it just worked off the jump. I had to remap the 11 and 12 buttons to work with - and = but it had no issues. Its smooth and precise, its comfortable to hold, the lights arent obnoxious and dont get hot to the touch. The buttons on the side are curved and it took a little practice to master but after an hour or so it felt really natural. The instructions claim the mouse might not be as responsive on a dark surface but I am using it on a black Rocketfish gaming pad with no problems. I dont seem to have the scroll wheel issues other people are commenting about. The scroll wheel feels about the same as my Naga did. A little clicky in a purely tactile sense that feels way smoother than I expected it would given the reviews. Overall I think this mouse is great - especially given that its cheaper than the other leading MMO mice. Its quality made, doesnt suffer the issues with static that my Naga did and I seriously plugged and played with it. I only opened the software after I had it plugged in and had been playing with it a bit because the - and = buttons werent mapped. I intend to purchase another one to have as a backup and will definitely be using this mouse for a long time.
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Jaime Bravo
> 3 dayIn 2014 I was looking for a good new mouse and stumbled upon this. It seemed almost too good to be true: a <$40 mouse with crazy high DPI and a crazy amount of buttons? Yet early reviews and indications said itd be worth a shot, so I went ahead and got it. Almost two years later, its still doing its job. Theres two main questions that I thought of at the time and now have an answer to them. 1) Are all the buttons necessary? No, not at all. Even when playing a couple MMOs, I struggle to get over 12. Im no expert player but Im above average and certainly competent. What it did teach me though was that 8 buttons is the minimum I now can accept: left/right/middle clicks, back/forward/refresh buttons, enter, alt tab. Once you get used to that, its almost impossible to go back. Others useful but not-as-essential functions may include cut/copy/paste, print, save, and some media controls. Once you get the hang of it 12+ buttons isnt useful for just MMOs, its useful for everyday browsing and multi-tasking. 2) Is 16400 DPI really necessary? Also not at all. Even by todays standards thats still considered freakishly high and Im not so good that I can control that speed in an FPS. But 4000, 8000? Ive managed with that and now use them regularly, for everything. The biggest perk of all: It costs less than $40. Its a jack of all trades that surpasses the standard of doing everything okay and manages to succeed at doing everything things well. The only pieces of improvement I can think of are that it has no left/right scrolling and that middle clicking can be a bit stiff. The latter is easily resolved (use another button) and the former just needs to be gotten used to. It can be partially mitigated a higher DPI level too, depending on your task. The biggest expectation I had after trying to a few months was that itd die on me in under a year. Now Im coming up on two and its still working great. At the price point its at, its a no brainer.
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Tyler Price
> 3 dayOkay so first off let me start by saying I owned one of the cheapest models from Logitech that Ive used for over two years. It had no side macro keys like this one does. But with that said, thats all I needed since I quit playing WoW a long time ago and stuck to regular RPG . I recently got the urge to begin playing another MMO since building my first gaming PC, specifically Star Wars The Old Republic. As most MMO gamers know, the greatest asset in playing an MMO is the ability to have many hotkeys, either on the keyboard itself or a Mouse. You can get by with using just keyboard hotkeys for awhile, but then you usually run out of keys that you can comfortably reach. Thats where this incredible mouse comes in. I have read other reviews trying to get a feel for it before I pulled the trigger on it. It is true that it is a quite large mouse, if you have a small hand you may have a little trouble using this mouse. It all depends on user preference though. My hand is on the large size and the first time I gripped it, it felt awkward because I was used to a normal sized mouse. Yet, it fit perfectly for the size of my hand. It has a very rough textured feel to it that I absouletly love. You could spill all your greasy foods on this mouth and it wouldnt even matter. Clicking is extremely touchy to the point where I would click on accident sometimes. So keep that in mind when considering this mouse. Next up is the side macro keys. Ill agree with a lot of other reviews that the back 6 keys are kind of awkward to reach to. Although I dont have those macrod anyway. The keys are also tilted in a way in each row of 3 so you can definitely tell which key your pressing, which leads on to the next poin . The keys are a little too small for me, but nothing game changing for me. Lastly, the price. Wow. Under $40? Really? That was the number one reason why I chose this one over ones that are twice the price of this one. If youre on a budget, I completely recommend this bad boy. To me, theres no better bang for your buck purchase. And even if you have money to blow on a more name brand of a Mouse, I urge you to consider a mouse like this. I apologize is this isnt a complete thorough review, this is the first review for any product Ive bought EVER. but I was so blown away by the price to value relationship of this mouse that I had to share a short opinion on it. Buy this mouse and take that left over money from not buying a more expensive one, and either save it or put it towards something else you want.
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Yasin
> 3 dayThis isnt my first gaming mouse. The first one Ive owned was a Havit-MS735 mouse that I used for three years. It had the same button layout, but I decided to finally replace the Havit mouse because of two key issues: 1) the software it came with for updating the button layout sucked. It crashed so often it made it nearly impossible to switch between key configuration profiles. 2) The paint on the mouse started peeling after years of being in contact with my sweaty tryhard palms From what I can tell this Redragon Perdition 3 mouse fixed both of those problems. The software is similar in terms of its graphic user interface of the Havit mouse (same keybind, color change, and DPI setting options), but the Redragon program actually works at updating the key configurations and swaps between them flawlessly. Also, theres no cheap paint anywhere on this Redragon mouse. After 2 weeks of using the mouse right out of the box, it has an unexpected and satisfying rough texture that I fear will smooth out over time. But it looks like its got a long way to go before the paint starts peeling. It was a breeze for me to adjust to using this mouse largely in part due to the attachable weights that can make the mouse feel lighter or heavier to your liking. Finally, I was initially hesitant about buying this mouse due to all the reviews that said reaching the side buttons with their thumbs was awkward / uncomfortable. Im glad I ignored those reviews and bought this mouse anyway. I dont have any trouble reaching the side buttons. Granted, it feels quite natural to me since my last mouse had the same button layout. But regardless of how big your hands are, most people will eventually adjust to be able to access all side buttons with ease. People learn, grow, and adapt. Simple as that.
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Paul
> 3 dayI bought this mouse in May 2015 when it was/is on sale for $35 when I had to replace my old Razer Naga for breaking. For that price, it is unbeatable! - Crazy DPI: The DPI on this mouse can be set to unreasonable high, higher than anybody would ever want it in my opinion. You will undoubtedly be able to set it to any DPI level you personally prefer. - Easy Install & Good Customization: The disc it comes with is a quick easy install, and allows you to customize the DPI, pointing speed, scrolling speed, double click reaction, and more. You can create different profiles for it. I like that you can customize it be absolutely any color you want - I set mine to purple for the logo and numbers and the middle mouse button to green. - Good Grip: The mouse is unique in that it is down-curved where your two fingers rest, especially at the tips. It is basically molded to snugly fit your hand. You cant tell by the picture but the mouse has some sort of rough texture with very tiny bumps that makes it even easier to grip. - 12 Buttons: Without seeing the mouse in-person, I was concerned about how reachable the 12 side buttons are. I am used to using a first-generation Razer Naga with very tiny buttons all quite close to each other. I was comforted to see that I can reach the needed buttons without trouble, thought not quite as fast on my old mouse. Like all other mouses like this, the last row (10, 11, and 12) are fairly difficult to reach so I would never bother using those buttons. The buttons, as you can see by the picture, are all uniquely ridged/curved and this helps you remember them much better based on how they feel. - Adjustable Weight: You can adjust the physical weight of the mouse by unscrolling the cap on the bottom and taking out some of the metal barrings. Again, this allows you to customize it to your liking. Personally, I prefer a lightweight mouse. I am used to using a first-generation Razer Naga and this mouse, even with all of the metal barrings removed, is still a bit too heavy for me. This is actually a big bummer for me, and is the only reason I do not give it a 5/5. But keep in mind the Razer mouse I was used to using was so lightweight, much lighter than the modern Razer Nagas.
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Daniel Dario
> 3 dayAs someone who generally sticks to what they know, I was a little hesitant to buy a gaming mouse from a brand I had never heard of before seeing as I used the Logitech MX 500 series mice exclusively for a decade. At the time of this purchase I was playing a significant amount of World of Warcraft: Vanilla on a private server so I wanted something geared towards MMO game-play. I figured the buttons would take getting used to, and there was no way Id ever feel comfortable navigating all of them, but I liked the idea and gave it shot. The construction seems well done. Its not flimsy or loose and the plastic is hard. All of the buttons have a nice response. The placement of all of the buttons, sans some of the thumb keypad, are comfortable and not a problem during repeated use. The mouse wheel flows nicely and there arent many accidental middle button clicks when using it heavily. The rubber grip helps keep the wheel moving evenly as well. Ergonomically the mouse feels nice in your hand overall. The only reason I am giving this 4 stars is because of the thumb keypad gimmick. While it is a nice idea, even someone like me with small hands and fingers cannot comfortably navigate all of them, especially on the fly during action in a fast paced game like an MMO. Many of them are easily reached and quickly pressed, which is acceptable, but I ended up not assigning some of the middle, and back-middle buttons at all, or to things I rarely had to use. If I were to continuously reach for some of the more oddly placed buttons, my thumb would assuredly get sore over time. I could set my hand back further on the mouse to have better control over navigating them, but then the mouse felt more awkward in my hand. The software was pretty straight forward and much like other gaming mouse software. Not much to add here. The cord is nicely cased and the glowing LED is a cool novelty. As a whole this is a solid addition to the world of gaming mice and I am happy with my purchase over some of the more well known brands and models.