Razer Naga V3 Pro review: The mouse for any gamer playing any game
How do you beat the Razer Naga V2 Pro, which was for a long time crowned the title of ‘most versatile gaming mouse ever’? Well, if you’re Razer, you simply double down and make it even more versatile.
Introducing the Razer Naga V3 Pro.
How many buttons? Yes.
The Naga V3 Pro has the same general design as its highly rated predecessor, which does mean that it’s a little shorter and stouter than your average gaming mouse. It’s not a small mouse, but its right handed shape with the flared out thumbrest does make it quite wide. For what it’s worth, it’s still pretty comfortable and ergonomic, but you’ll want to give it a session or two before it becomes natural in hand.
The mouse’s unique feature is of course its customisable side plates. You’ll get three side plates out of the box: a 12-button, 6-button and 2-button layout. This gives you the option to switch and choose depending on the game you’re playing and whether or not you’ll need all the extra buttons.
For the most part, I find myself using the standard 2-button panel for the usual games I play, such as Marvel Rivals. However, recently my friends and I have been spending quite a lot of time in Valheim, which has your items bound to the 1-9 keys on the number row. As it turns out, having your 1-9 accessible on the side of your mouse made playing the game much easier, as when I’m going around building, chopping wood, mining ore and terraforming in-game, all i need to switch between tools and weapons is just a flick of the thumb on the side.
It’s also a handy mouse beyond the usual type of games—think MMOs—that benefit from having so many buttons. In TFT for instance, I switched to the 6-button panel and rebound keys such as roll shop, level down, scout other boards and going back to your own board to the side buttons, making it easy to play even the game even one-handed.
The Naga V3 Pro has a couple extra buttons that the Naga V2 Pro doesn’t have too. These include the two extra edge buttons on the side of the left mouse button, which by default adjusts your DPI, while your pinky rest is now a button too which can trigger HyperSift by default. I actually wasn’t a fan of that last button, finding it a but too easy to trigger it, but luckily a switch on the bottom lets me disable it and prevent any clicking whatsoever.
Of course, if you install the Razer Synapse app, you can also customise what each button does too, which in games such as MMOs would be very beneficial. You can even set up macros if you wish, and that can be useful even beyond games such as when editing videos and stuff. I only wish that I didn’t have to install the Synapse app in the first place and instead just use the Synapse web app, but hopefully Razer will introduce support for it later down the line.
One other feature I really like is the scroll wheel. It’s a tilt wheel that lets you shift it side to side for sidescrolling, but in particular it’s the multi-mode scorll that I enjoy; moving over from a Keychron M6, I can no longer live without an option to switch between regular tactile scrolling and free spin. However, the Naga V3 Pro goes up one more step with precision tactile scrolling, which gives you even finer scrolling control. Alternatively, you can even set it up as tactile by default that goes into free spin mode if you give it enough force.
Believe or not we’re still not done with the buttons available on the Naga V3 Pro. There’s two more buttons below the scroll wheel, one of which toggles the aforementioned scrolling modes, while the other is a quick hotkey to open up Razer AI Prompt Master.
And finally, we come to the left and right mouse button itself, the two buttons that you’ll likely click the most. These feature Razer Optical Mouse Switches Gen 4, which have a lighter actuation than your general mouse, but never too light that I fired on accident.
As for its sensor, the Focus Pro 50K Optical Sensor Gen-3 offers up to 50,000DPI, up to 90Gs of force and up to 930IPS tracking speed, which are insane numbers honestly. Most average gamers, myself included, won’t go beyond 3,200, with 1,600 or even 400-800 more common for competitive FPS games such as Valorant. Only up to a 1,000Hz polling rate though if that matters to you, though 8,000Hz polling rate is also possible if you get the Razer Mouse Dock Pro.
What’s more important for you and me is that it’s a reliable and accurate sensor, with no issues found while using it. It also helps that this mouse is relatively light at 117g without the side panels, making snaps across your mousepad easy and smooth. It’s also nice to see three connectivity options such as 2.4GHz, Bluetooth and wired via USB-C, while for battery life you can expect up to 155 hours of use; I personally didn’t have to recharge it over the three weeks I was using it for after the first full charge.
A mouse for literally any game
Priced at RM799, the Naga V3 Pro is a premium mouse that’s also a decent enough upgrade to the Naga V2 Pro that I fully expect this to be the new gold standard for gamers playing MMOs and the like. And credit to Razer; while super lightweight competitive gaming mice now dominate, it’s great that these relatively niche options still exist.
But that’s perhaps the Naga V3 Pro’s strongest suit. It doesn’t have the best sensor or switches, but it’s extremely versatile. If you’re a gamer who hops around various titles and genres like me—please don’t look at my collection of Steam games—the Naga V3 Pro can easily adapt to whatever game you’re playing no issue.
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