Sleepbot13 Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 (edited) hello, I grew up on the mx518 - the original with 1800 max dpi. I saw the corsair nightsword on instagram and it looked amazing. It felt wrong in my hand. I didn't know why until I realized that the width of the mouse was too wide for my hand. My hand falls perfectly around a mx518. The hand can rest on the mold of the mouse. The nightsword has a bulge on the thumb side that doesn't allow my hand to rest. This causes fatigue and discomfort in my hand. The mouse comes with weights but I found it a bit heavy empty. The mx518 comes in at 100g so maybe I just need to get used to it. I found the sniper button hard to activate and maintain control of the mouse at the same time. I switch sniper button to the keyboard. I also found the right button activated too easy and I was frequently activating the right button. I fixed this by folding a post it note and sliding it in the crevice...this also fixed another problem. The post it note protruded out an inch and provided a ledge for my ring finger to rest on. This was a happy accident. I have the new mx518 now and I also lazy click the right mouse button but it is alot less ...though I will post it note this mouse as well. The mx518 provides has a black trim part that allow me to rest my finger on the black part ..this is not the case with the nightsword.. the right button wraps around and doesn't allow a place for my fingers to rest...in a car the left foot is given a dead pedal which allow you a place to rest the left foot.. the nightsword has no dead pedal. This is where the postit note dampens the button from activating and also gives a rest for the fingers. It would be nice if in the future a plastic clip could be provided which would slide over the tip of the right mouse button...like a fake nail is slide over a nail....but only the front tip part....this gives my right button finger a ledge to rest on ...then I have to move my finger back an inch to purposefully press the button instead of "lazy clicking" the right button menu... perhaps in the future a glove with magnets can connect to a metal spine of the mouse and the magnets can help hold the mouse for you instead of relying solely on the hand. ( I'm just making this part up though...could surely be rubbish) I didn't spend too much time with trying to modify the light settings of the RGB. When I did try... I failed to get the profiles to save and restart with computer restarts. I now realize that the hand is like the foot and has length and width and those have to be considered with buying a mouse. I need to know what the hand width of the mouse is... when I look at the specs ..it includes the widest part but that isn't where my hands touch. I need to know the width where my thumb touches on the side to where the ring finger rests on the right edge. So hand width vs product width. I assume the Corsair Harpoon model series is Corsair's answer to the LG mx518. I got the steel series rival 3 which I think mimicks as well but the 77g was too light for my hand. If I had a way to reduce the width of the nightsword ...I could have kept the mouse but I returned it. I'll need to keep my eyes open and keep trying out different mice. Edited July 3, 2020 by Sleepbot13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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