Glorious Series 2 Pro Wireless Review – 8KHz Wireless Gaming Mouse TESTED!

This is the Glorious Series 2 Pro, a brand new 8,000 hertz wireless gaming mouse with added lightness! This bad boy looks remarkably similar to the Model D 2 Pro I reviewed recently, with the biggest change being this dongle. Instead of saying “4K” it now says “8K”! Ok there are a few other differences, so let’s take a look. This is a pretty high arch mouse. It’s good for larger hands for sure, with palm or claw grips being best suited, and while this is obviously very subjective, it feels good in my hand. You’ve got plenty of space on the sides to grip – not that you need to grip particularly hard with how light this thing is – including space for your ring and pinky fingers, and your thumb on the left, which is also where you’ll find the nicely positioned side buttons. These are nicely supported, feel pretty good, and are out the way enough that you won’t accidentally hit them, but are big enough to easily hit when you need to. Build quality is also good – it’s a solid shell – with no creaks and rattles. 

Weight wise, this comes in at just 55 grams, making it remarkably light, and yet it’s still a wireless mouse with a quoted 80 hours of battery life… at 1,000 hertz anyway. At 8,000 hertz it’s likely to be lower, although with how nice the supported paracord USB C cable is, and the fact that the dongle takes that cable in meaning it can stay on your desk meaning you have easy access to it, I don’t think that’s too much of a problem. That does mean for laptop users it’s less than ideal having a long cable permanently connected, rather than a tiny dongle that can stay attached to your laptop, but for desktop users like me this is great. 

Sensor wise, this is the Glorious BAMF 2.0 26K optical sensor – which is a spec for spec match to the PixArt PAW3395 – and the same one you’ll find in the Model D 2 Pro, O 2 Pro and a bunch of their other mice, so it’s safe to say it’s a reliable choice. Naturally it tracks well, both at high and low DPI settings, and feels pretty good. While I’m still working on the sensor latency feature for OSLTT CS, to the eye anyway it doesn’t seem to suffer from the same slow tracking latency older mice seemed to exhibit, at least before firmware updates. It feels responsive, snappy and like the smooth extension of your arm you want with a gaming mouse. 

Speaking of the latency tool, which as always is available at OSRTT.com, linked in the description, I used the peripheral testing kit to test click latency – at 8,000 Hz of course – and the results were a little surprising. It was consistently a touch slower, both wired and wireless, although both at 8,000 Hz, than the Model D 2 Pro I tested last week. Not by much at all, 2.7 milliseconds on average with this Series 2 Pro, and 2.2 milliseconds on the D 2 Pro wired at 8K, but there is a difference there. Interestingly, even the D 2 Pro running wirelessly, meaning at 4,000 Hz, that was only 2.4 milliseconds on average, making it faster than either wired or wireless results from the Series 2 Pro – and yeah wireless does add a tiny fraction, and a touch more inconsistency too. These results aren’t exactly deal-breaking, or really super significant in the grand scheme of things, but I do find it interesting. This could come from a bunch of things, from the switches having a touch more pre-travel on this mouse, to the power-saving running a bit harder with such a lightened mouse, but it’s cool I can finally quantify these differences! As I said, if you want one, OSRTT.com. I build them myself right here at home and ship them worldwide. 

Anyway, enough shilling my own stuff, back to the mouse. For actually gaming with it, unsurprisingly it’s spot on. For my hands anyway, it’s pretty comfortable, it’s really easy to grip especially with the nice subtle textured finish on the shell and sides, and of course it’s lightning fast. It tracks well even with fast flicks, and being so ridiculously light means not only do you get less fatigue after long flick sessions, there is just less weight in your hand making it easier for you to be accurate. Of course there’s a limit to how much that can help – sadly it isn’t quite aimhacks and I still kinda suck, but hey, I’ll take all the help I can get. This is a competitive advantage compared to 1,000 hertz mice for sure, and I think is just outright pretty decent. 

It is £120, putting it at the same price as the Model D 2 Pro and O 2 Pro – and is basically the same shape as the D 2 Pro as well, so the fact this can do 8,000 hertz wirelessly might tip you over to this one, although I would mention that the D 2 Pro gets an extra set of glide pads in the box that help extend the surface pretty considerably – something this Series 2 Pro doesn’t get – and considering even at 4,000 Hertz the click latency was lower on the D 2 Pro, maybe you should stick to that instead. Either way, these are pretty decent mice, and if you’ve got this kind of cash to spend on a higher end gaming mouse, this definitely isn’t a bad shout.