maareek
Diabloii.Net Member
Telling someone what mouse to use falls somewhere between completely impossible and practically impossible. The best way is to use various mice for yourself and get a feel for them, but you may not live in an area where that's a viable option (it certainly isn't where I live). If you want to do some research on the workings of a mouse and inform some decisions from that point, I have a pair of links you could have a look at (note that the first of those links was last updated in 2012, but the thread itself is still active and if you'd like you could have a go at asking for suggestions [using the template spoilered in the first post] and seeing what response you can get) for getting a picture of the differences between mice and what they mean and so forth.
I'm not up to date on mice right now, and I wouldn't feel qualified to try and distill the information above down, but I will say that if you just want to play D2 I wouldn't go dropping much money on a mouse. There's not a lot of call for it and you'll probably be fine with just a mouse that feels good with a decent optical sensor (the basic mice Windows put out should be fine for the job, for example, and they're like $15 or so) but if you want something that's more adjustable and has a little more room to ramp up into other games, the Razer DeathAdder is a pretty easy and common recommendation just because it performs pretty well, is widely available, and is reasonably versatile. It's not perfect, and Razer is sort of known for less than stellar consistency in its parts, but in the dark it's a good place to start in terms of recommendations. The downside being the DeathAdder retails for $60.00, but that's what shopping around is for ... and is pretty much in range with most gaming mice, anyway.
As for mouse pads, again I'm no expert, but the Steelseries QCK line and Razer Goliathus line are fairly inexpensive ($15) cloth pads. The second link I provided above has some information regarding mouse pads, but the gist is: you want to pick the mouse first as some of them perform better on certain surfaces and poorly on others. Most mice work somewhere between well and best on cloth pads though, so it's a decent choice in general.
Keep in mind that 1. every mouse has flaws, 2. any mouse could be completely unusable junk to any specific person and 3. assuming the performance of the mouse chosen isn't just complete garbage (and very few actually qualify as that) the most important thing is just that the mouse feels good to use.
Personally I use an Abyssus mouse on a Goliathus speed pad because when I was looking to buy some gaming peripherals they were each on stupidly big sales (~$30 for the pair?) but I wouldn't recommend them because I don't have any frame of reference (never used a gaming mouse pad before and before the Abyssus all I used were Mini Opticals) though outside of the UI software Razer sent with the mouse - which isn't required - and not being able to turn off the light under the Razer logo I have no complaints.
I'm not up to date on mice right now, and I wouldn't feel qualified to try and distill the information above down, but I will say that if you just want to play D2 I wouldn't go dropping much money on a mouse. There's not a lot of call for it and you'll probably be fine with just a mouse that feels good with a decent optical sensor (the basic mice Windows put out should be fine for the job, for example, and they're like $15 or so) but if you want something that's more adjustable and has a little more room to ramp up into other games, the Razer DeathAdder is a pretty easy and common recommendation just because it performs pretty well, is widely available, and is reasonably versatile. It's not perfect, and Razer is sort of known for less than stellar consistency in its parts, but in the dark it's a good place to start in terms of recommendations. The downside being the DeathAdder retails for $60.00, but that's what shopping around is for ... and is pretty much in range with most gaming mice, anyway.
As for mouse pads, again I'm no expert, but the Steelseries QCK line and Razer Goliathus line are fairly inexpensive ($15) cloth pads. The second link I provided above has some information regarding mouse pads, but the gist is: you want to pick the mouse first as some of them perform better on certain surfaces and poorly on others. Most mice work somewhere between well and best on cloth pads though, so it's a decent choice in general.
Keep in mind that 1. every mouse has flaws, 2. any mouse could be completely unusable junk to any specific person and 3. assuming the performance of the mouse chosen isn't just complete garbage (and very few actually qualify as that) the most important thing is just that the mouse feels good to use.
Personally I use an Abyssus mouse on a Goliathus speed pad because when I was looking to buy some gaming peripherals they were each on stupidly big sales (~$30 for the pair?) but I wouldn't recommend them because I don't have any frame of reference (never used a gaming mouse pad before and before the Abyssus all I used were Mini Opticals) though outside of the UI software Razer sent with the mouse - which isn't required - and not being able to turn off the light under the Razer logo I have no complaints.
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