New World of Warcraft mouse costs £70

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 8 August, 2011

SteelSeries Legendary Ed. out next month.

SteelSeries has announced a new £70 Legendary Edition of its World of Warcraft MMO gaming mouse.

It's described as sleeker and more compact that previous WOW mice, and includes in-game integration and illumination.

The Legendary Edition, pictured below, features 16.8 million illumination colour options and 11 programmable buttons. You can assign all 11 button controls and multiple macros from directly within the World of Warcraft game interface.

That is, you can program all 11 buttons with more than 130 preset game commands and create custom macros and/or use the in-game macro scripting language.

The technical specifications:

  • Illumination: 16.8 million colour options with four levels of pulsation.
  • Frames Per Second: 3600.
  • Counts Per Inch: 800 – 3200.
  • Adjustable Polling Rate.
  • Optical Sensor Technology.
  • 11 Programmable Buttons.
  • Cable: 6.5ft Braided Nylon.
  • Mac and PC Compatible.

The World of Warcraft Legendary Mouse launches in late September for £69.99/$79.99/€69.99.

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Comments (26) Latest comment 10 months ago

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  • HL706 #1 10 months ago

    WoW, just WoW :o

  • Grump #2 10 months ago

    Is there a left-handed version?

  • simiankid #3 10 months ago

    Gosh, what incredible value for money.

  • HyperTails #4 10 months ago

    Well, at least its cheaper than the Skyrim collectors edition.

  • Shikasama #5 10 months ago

    9 buttons worth of overkill for most of the WoW game.

  • Bravestinsane #6 10 months ago

    LOL i thought the buttons on the left side were a Zip at first =/

  • Kami #7 10 months ago

    Cheaper than the awful last version, and looks comfier. Still... this sort of mouse (with similar functions) you can buy for £40, so the question is then, why spend the extra £30?

    This is the problem with branded stuff. Sure, it's "cool" and pretty. But really... when you're paying nearly twice as much to have a logo always on it and a bunch of twinkly light effects, you do have to ask yourself... wouldn't that £30 cover, like, three of four months of your subscription fee addiction?

    Still... milk, milk, milk, milk...

  • Toothball #8 10 months ago

    @Grump

    Presumably not. I like ambidextrous mice myself, and it can be a pain finding those.

  • bikmate #9 10 months ago

    Meh I hate scroll wheels. I've got this, granted it doesn't got much buttons and lacks cool paint but at least your scroll wheel will never ever fail.

    http://www.geniusnet.com/wSite/ct?xItem=...

  • CaptainTrips #10 10 months ago

    I bought the Cataclysm one, and it was a purchase I regret. The firmware update which the mouse pushed upon first use actually caused my PC to bluescreen - both my laptop and mouse bluescreen whenever it is plugged in now.

    Pretty sure it's a faulty product, and I'm in touch with their CS to fix it/get a replacement/refund, but from Googling the problem it seems I'm not the only one who had this trouble.

    I'll be staying away from this one and sticking with my trusty Logitech gaming mice methinks...

  • xuiton #11 10 months ago

    I laugh at all the sad people that buy crap like this.

  • Nephirion #12 10 months ago

    Looks fucking epic, no wait that's the price ....

  • CaptainTrips #13 10 months ago

    @Xuiton - I laugh at those who choose to mock people for spending their income on something they enjoy.

  • butler` #14 10 months ago

    artwork is tragic

  • Phoenisis #15 10 months ago

    Gotta give Blizzard credit: They really have gotten staggeringly good at squeezing every last penny that they possibly can out of their remaining customers.

  • Pirotic #16 10 months ago

    How many random animals must I kill and skin to get this?

  • Feanor #17 10 months ago

    This is an ad, not news.

  • bemaniac #18 10 months ago

    One word: Naga

  • skabba1972 #19 10 months ago

    As long as I can re-brand it too a GW2 mouse when WoW snuffs it!

  • ISmoke #20 10 months ago

    I'll just stick with my Mamba, thanks.

  • rumbo #21 10 months ago

    Thought i'd post my own experience with the previous version, seeing as most people here are pretty negative about this. Being an avid WoW PVE and PVP player I bought myself the wow cataclysm mouse when my logitech G500's buttons started having bad contacts (as in, sometimes register, sometimes don't register). Being a player that's used to mousebinding instead of keybinding (with all mousebuttons bound, along with shift, alt and control modifiers), the extra buttons that the steelseries cata mouse gave were helping me improve my game. I'm quite sure the Naga would be able to pull of the same feat, but likely with extra learning effort, due to the relative tight-togetherness of the different buttons.

    I did hear horrorstories about the first steelseries wow mouse, but personally nothing but good for the second one for me (apart from the looks, I like more modest looks). I did notice people with smaller hands that use my mouse tend to have this "gah, that's one huge mouse", but for me it fits into my hand.

  • Kazama74 #22 10 months ago

    So, even more expensive than the Eve-monocle. Oh wait, I actually get a real-life item here. But, yeah, I will be getting this.

  • geeza2020 #23 10 months ago

    Gotta make up for that dip in subs somehow :p

  • brod #24 10 months ago

    Better off with a Deathadder.

    http://www.esreality.com/index.php?a=pos...

  • Zero_g #25 10 months ago

    I still use the first gen steelseries wow mouse, after some teething problems ( the main right and left hand were stiff and unresponsive) it's been fine! Paint/ coating is starting to peel in places now, but the mouse has held up well, although I stopped playing wow a while ago...

  • Psi #26 10 months ago

    Question: Who counted the 16.8 million colour options? and how did they feel when they realised when their hand was on the mouse you couldn't see them, or when in game you'd never look anyway...