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The Gamdias Zeus GMS1100 is a very strange looking mouse. While we have all seen side finger rests before, as well as side buttons, the overall configuration and layout is very unusual.
The main body of the Zeus is made with lovely, soft plastic coating. It is very smooth and comfortable to hold, split into three distinct sections – the middle, the left and the right. While the middle is fairly traditional with front buttons and DPI switches, the sides look rather bizarre in comparison.
Eschewing the usual thumb rest on the left hand side, the Zeus splits off from the main body and with good reason too: it needs to fit in all those extra buttons.
Along with the plastic, scooped thumb rest, there are four extra side buttons. While these ship at default with commonly used forward, back browser functions – this mouse has a real MOBA focus. The idea is to remap these to your QWER abilities in LoL, DotA 2 … or any of their less popular contemporaries.
The buttons are placed in a way that allow you to press them with your thumb. That said, they do not seem to be designed with a rocking motion in mind – they require the user to move the thumb to press them.
At the front and mounted just above the side buttons is a small LED indicator to indicate DPI. There is another button which supports profile switching.
The other side looks rather odd. There are finger rests which are slightly independent of the main body, and these leave gaps between them and the frame.
Obviously this is deliberate as they are adjustable by small dials on the underside of the chassis. It is an interesting idea and could prove useful for those with large or small hands. You can only adjust the distance from the body of the mouse, not the height or lengthways position.
The front part of the mouse is equally unusual by design, sporting three buttons more than we would find on many gaming mice. Along with left, right and wheel clickers, there are three more running down the middle. The first two are immediately recognisable, defaulting to DPI up and down (for which there is an indicator LED on the side) – but the one behind it launches the official Gamdias website.
It is almost creepy watching the macro playout when you haven not programmed it. This toggles the Run window and types in the Gamdias homepage URL.
The dials that control the finger rests are on the underside of the mouse, with a single one on the opposite side to control the thumb rest. That said, I have never felt the need to adjust that.
At the back of the Zeus is a little sliding door which reveals the weight-puck carriage. Here you can adjust the weight of the mouse in 4.5g increments. Personally I found the sweet spot at two. It comes mounted with all five at default, but it may prove rather heavy for most people.
The cable is braided to a high standard, which earns the mouse a little bonus point.
a little late but : moving a thumb to use the side button is never a problem on theses kind of mouse (G600/G602/GXT166/Zeus/ heck even the piece of cr*p that the naga and M.M.O 7/TE are) so it should not be a penalizing factor for a moba mouse (since all of them need to do it like that)
on the opposite i concur with the fact that the Zeus has not enough button … i use a G602 :6 thumb 2 index, (normally the 2 index (G10/G11) are mapped to the DPI shift but they are more useful as skill button or whatever else since the G602 max dpi is 2600 x) ) and even 8 are not enough (for MOBA, barely for MMO a bit short depending on the one you play) going back to a G600 or trying the GXT166 is the only option.