MMO-type games necessarily involve the use of many different keyboard keys for all the actions that the character can perform. A gaming keyboard is ideal for this type of games, but if you have a gaming keypad, things improve even more because you will have a specific peripheral in which to configure all the keys with macros as you need them. Next we are going to tell you which are in our opinion the best gaming keypad on the market.
Razer Tartarus V2
This gaming keypad provides a total of 32 programmable buttons with Razer mecha-membrane switches to be able to configure macros or the actions you want, also supported by the complete Razer Synapse software, with a very simple configuration. It also has a scroll wheel and an 8-way analog joystick and two mouse “click” buttons. It has a comfortable two-section wrist rest to be able to use it for hours and hours without causing fatigue and, of course, it has configurable Chroma lighting.
Razer Tartarus Pro
This is a version of the previous one with exactly the same characteristics, but in addition to being available also in white, it has the particularity that the switches are optical (analog), giving the peripheral a greater precision. It is much more expensive than the previous one due to this, but if you like this type of button mechanisms more you should know that it is the only gaming keypad on the market that incorporates them.
Logitech G13
The famous Logitech G13 was one of the first gaming keypads on the market. It has a total of 25 buttons with membrane switches, macros configurable from the software and with the possibility of recording macros on the fly. It also has an 8-way D-Pad and the two mouse buttons, with a one-piece wrist rest, RGB lighting and the most particular feature is an LCD screen that we can configure as we want, from displaying images to showing the status of the hardware or statistics of the MMO we are playing.
Trust GXT 888
Much simpler and cheaper is this Trust brand gaming keypad, which actually simply provides the 29 keys on the left side of the keyboard, which is the one we commonly use in games. It has a hard wrist rest in one piece, and the big button that you can see to its right is nothing but the space bar. The keys that yes are configurable from the software, it has RGB lighting also configurable and it has 13-Key Rollover.
Redragon K585
Same as the previous one but a little more complete and at the same time simpler. This gaming keypad is also equivalent to the left side of a traditional keyboard but adds five specific keys for macros, with which we can record macros on the fly without the need for software. It also has configurable RGB lighting and a hard wrist rest.
Excalibur classroom
More than a gaming keypad, the Aula Excalibur almost looks like the control of an airplane, although it really is also the left part of a keyboard but with the buttons arranged differently, so that the ENTER key is included, and the special keys arranged in the form of a semicircle at the top. It has RGB lighting and a one-piece soft wrist rest.