steelseries wow mouse not changing color

Out of the box its a red (for the Horde!) - though I changed mine to be a blue (to match my keyboard). The mouse lights up with a gentle breathing colored glow in between what looks like armor plating. One of the most attractive features of the mouse, the bling factor so to speak, is the ability to customize the color in which it pulses as. I even attached some finishing attacks like Hammer of Judgement for my Paladin to one of the top buttons and it just felt more satisfying to pull off. Once you get the hang of it though, I felt I was able to quickly cast groups of skills, and do it faster and more effeciently than when I had to cycle through keyboard commands. In the heat of battle I found my hands were still trained to reach for some keyboard keys, so it was kind of a mix and match of methods.

There’s definitely a learning curve as to what buttons are where, especially after you try to migrate from you usual keyboard shortcuts to the mouse buttons. The 14 buttons are split up in different locales: 5 on the left, 8 on the top, and 1 on the right side. I have fairly big hands, but I can see people with smaller hands being made uncomfortable using it for extended periods. The mouse itself is a pretty massive piece of hardware, definitely the biggest mouse I’ve used in quite some time. Once complete you’re able to quest and raid away. The other half of this formula is actually WoW itself, which requires an in game option to be enabled to detect the mouse. This software allows you to customize the 14 buttons to your liking and then store that info on the mouse itself allowing you to bring it with you to any PC of your choosing. Out of the box, setup was straight forward and required only a small download to set up the profile software. This is an officially license product with Blizzard and because of it, there’s quite a bit of tight integration with WoW itself. While its still a mouse at its core, its the extra bells and whistle that make this a unique tool in your MMO bag. The World of Warcraft Cataclysm MMO Gaming Mouse is a product from Steelseries specifically designed while Warcraft gamers in mind.

Yet here I am with a giant glowing World of Warcraft gaming mouse in my hand. Its hard to believe how far I’ve come in just a year - if you had told me one year ago that I’d be playing World of Warcraft on the PC, and that I’d actually enjoy it so much that I considered buying hardware specific for it, I’d have called you insane.

Steelseries wow mouse not changing color