Roccat Burst Pro Lightweight Gaming Mouse Review

A Closer Look

The first thing you notice about this mouse is that gorgeous cable! IT comes with what they call “PhantomFlex” and it’s basically a super soft and lightweight paracord. It feels like a padded shoelace, and it’s really rather nice to touch actually.

Most importantly though, it is very light weight, while still being durable.

I like the little mouse symbol on the USB header too, that can be helped when you’re tinkering with cables behind your computer one day.

The mouse is only 68g, which is nothing really. For example, a Corsair Scimitar is 121g (without cable), so this really is a super light mouse. It’s actually 2g lighter than the popular XM1 eSports mouse.

The ergonomics are fairly similar to the XM1 actually, albeit I think the Burst is a little curvier and more comfortable to hold.

Roccat also has larger and more pronounced switches on the side, making them very easy to control with minimal movement. I love that digital design on the side too, it’s hard to see from most angles, but catches the light sometimes and gives it a bit of shine. It’s subtle, but I like it.

The Burst is symmetrical, and while it’s not ambidextrous, it does mean the mouse feels perfectly balanced. I can’t say if it has perfect weight distribution or not, but it’s certainly going to be close… at least, for what little weight their is.

Both the LMB and RMB are mounted on their own individually sprung panels. This means there’s no feedback or crosstalk between the two. The end result is a much more positive feel from each button. They’re also quite long too, giving you a lot of control surface to work with.

Tucked into the middle of the mouse, you’ll fin da nice and large scroll wheel. It’s nicely recessed, making it comfortable to control, but it also has a really thick and durable rubber grip, so you never lose control.

Just behind that, you’ll find the DPI toggle switch. Of course, with their software, you can tweak all the profiles and functions of all the buttons, so you can change that to whatever you desire really.

Overall though, despite the lightweight design, the Burst feels really durable and I wouldn’t expect anything less from a Roccat product. Much of the lightness and durability comes from the interior honeycomb design, which you can faintly see here.

On the bottom of the mouse, you’ll find that lovely Owl-Eye sensor, which should deliver some pretty amazing performance. However, there are two enormous PTFE pads too, but remember to remove the protective blue plastic!

“The Burst Pro’s heat-treated pure PTFE glides are a gaming first. The competition uses untreated PTFE feet in their mice, ours are a step above. They’re pre-tuned so you get incredible glide and smooth mouse movements right out of the box.” read’s the Roccat blurb and while I’m not sure if that’s true, I do like them. A huge surface area and they’re as slick as ice.