Artisan Mousepad - recommend me one!

[combataran]

Hien is even rougher in texture, so I'd rule out that one.
Shiden is very smooth, but the Hayate should be even smoother.

my vote goes to Hayate it's really nice, definitely an improvement over QcK!

Great, thanks!

[combataran]

Hien is even rougher in texture, so I'd rule out that one.
Shiden is very smooth, but the Hayate should be even smoother.

my vote goes to Hayate it's really nice, definitely an improvement over QcK!

I just had carpet burn on my QCK+. I gotta get my Hayate soon. Or is there something softer?

[munch]

Hayate x-soft is very nice and soft but if you rub fast enough, any cloth pad will give you a rug burn. I do think the rubber of the Artisan pads is a LOT better though.

[combataran]

Hayate x-soft is very nice and soft but if you rub fast enough, any cloth pad will give you a rug burn. I do think the rubber of the Artisan pads is a LOT better though.

It's CS:GO. You gotta rub fast Would the Shiden actually make things easier, or at least not encourage me to rub the pad so quickly? Sometimes when things get intense I kinda push down on the mousepad hard, plus the high speed rubbibg really takes a till on my palm. There's a callus from all the years of gaming already.

[munch]

ahh, yeah that makes more sense. perhaps you'd want a faster pad then. the QcK isn't very fast.

[combataran]

ahh, yeah that makes more sense. perhaps you'd want a faster pad then. the QcK isn't very fast.

Wouldn't a faster pad mean a harder pad, which might also mean a rougher pad?

[davkol]

Not really, it's a matter of cloth texture in the first place. My Corsair MM200XL is definitely smoother/faster than QcK, but still soft (rubber base thickness is right between ordinary QcK and QcK Mass/Heavy). If you want something even faster, you have to go hard though, but I don't think it's that bad with pads that have a rubber base and a plastic surface (like say Roccat Sota).

[combataran]

Not really, it's a matter of cloth texture in the first place. My Corsair MM200XL is definitely smoother/faster than QcK, but still soft (rubber base thickness is right between ordinary QcK and QcK Mass/Heavy). If you want something even faster, you have to go hard though, but I don't think it's that bad with pads that have a rubber base and a plastic surface (like say Roccat Sota).

So...a softer pad like the Hayate, or a hard one like the Shiden?

[Glenn315]

I've been using the Hayate for about a month now, and I love it.

[munch]

Not really, it's a matter of cloth texture in the first place. My Corsair MM200XL is definitely smoother/faster than QcK, but still soft (rubber base thickness is right between ordinary QcK and QcK Mass/Heavy). If you want something even faster, you have to go hard though, but I don't think it's that bad with pads that have a rubber base and a plastic surface (like say Roccat Sota).

So...a softer pad like the Hayate, or a hard one like the Shiden?

well, the Shiden is very different from the QcK (you have one no? ) so I don't think that is necessary.
a hard pad doesn't mean faster, generally, so a Soft one should be fine. like, soft Raiden is super fast and still soft. very very smooth.