A compact and ultralight gaming mouse

The Glorious Series 2 Pro is the latest addition to the company’s roster of gaming mice, and it packs in loads of the latest top-tier gaming features, including a wireless and wired polling rate of up to 8kHz, optical switches, and a 26K DPI sensor. It’s a very small and light mouse, with a plain design that’s entirely focused on peak performance, so it should be an ideal choice for competitive PC gamers.

With specs clearly worthy of a spot on our best gaming mouse guide, this new Glorious mouse is up against stiff competition, but a reasonably competitive launch price helps it considerably. Read on to find out all the juicy details.

Design

The Glorious Series 2 Pro is a very compact mouse, with a length of just 119mm, a height of 38mm, and a width of 52mm. It also weighs just 55g, making it among the lightest wireless gaming mice around. A host of our other top choices of relatively lightweight and wireless gaming mice weigh more, with the likes of the Corsair M75 Air and Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 weighing 60g, while the Razer Viper V3 Hyperspeed is a relative heavyweight at 82g.

Like all the above mice, the Series 2 Pro has a symmetrical shape but with only side buttons on the left side, so it’s not truly ambidextrous. Still, it makes for a comfortable hold. Despite being such a small mouse, I found my 20cm long hands (wrist to middle fingertip) felt comfortable using this mouse with a fingertip grip, and it even sort of works for a palm grip and claw grip.

Regardless of grip style, the surface finish of the mouse isn’t my favorite, with it sporting a plain semi-rough textured plastic, with no grippy, soft-touch coatings or layers of rubber on the sides. This made the sides feel a touch slippery, particularly in colder, drier conditions.

In terms of styling, the plain black finish and symmetrical shape is very smart. It’s both unassuming yet serious, with Glorious even keeping its logo and model name in tiny lettering on the right side, so you don’t see it when using the mouse right-handed.

There’s some serious core hardware packed into this mouse, but externally it’s as simple as most performance-oriented gaming mice – it’s not designed to be an alternative to the Logitech G502 X Plus. You get just six main buttons, with the left and right buttons joined by two side buttons, and the scroll wheel clicks too.

Finally, the one extra you get that the likes of the Corsair M75 Air omit is a small button just behind the scroll wheel. As is most common, this tiny button is, by default, for switching DPI levels, but all the buttons can be reprogrammed using Glorious’ Core software.

Flip over the mouse and there’s a power switch, along with a light that will change color to match your assigned DPI levels in the software. You can assign up to six levels in total. You’ll also find four relatively small pure white PTFE glide pads here that as usual, but unlike the Endgame Gear OP1 8K, cover the screws for taking the mouse apart.

Up front is a USB-C socket for charging the mouse and running it via a wired connection. This has a uniquely shaped housing around it so the matching USB-C cable is held securely, but a handful of other USB-C cables we tried fit too, so you shouldn’t have any issues finding a spare if you lose the original or damage it.

As for wireless, Glorious includes its all-important 8kHz wireless dongle with this mouse. Some wireless gaming mice have been supplying their 4kHz and 8kHz dongles separately as an upgrade to standard 1kHz options, but not here. Notably, though, this dongle is quite large, so if you’re used to having your mouse dongle basically permanently attached to your laptop, you’ll have to think again.

There’s also a lightweight, flexible, and reasonably kink-free cable included in the box, which provides minimal push back and general disruption to your mousing when you do need to plug in.

As for those powerful innards, under the main left and right buttons are optical switches, the brand of which Glorious doesn’t specify. They are, however, rated to have a life of a huge 100 million presses, which is right up there with the longest-lasting switches. They’re optical too, which ensures you don’t have to wait for a debounce delay, as on normal mechanical switches, so there are a few milliseconds shaved off the response of the buttons.

As for the sensor, it’s called the Glorious BAMF 2.0 and boasts up to a 26,000 DPI level, with the ability to track accurately at up to 650 inches per second movement speed and 50G of movement acceleration. Technically, the likes of the Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 Dex can top these figures but they’re essentially as good as needed.

Performance

In our tests, performing multiple aim training runs, playing games such as Apex Legends and Fortnite, and using the mouse as a daily work driver for several days, I found the sensor tracking to be as flawless as I’ve come to expect from modern gaming mice. Few ever trip up in a meaningful way these days and the Series 2 Pro is no exception.

I could just about detect the higher polling rate using the mouse on 240Hz and higher screens, with up to around 2-4kHz providing an extra smoothness I could perceive. The jump up to 8kHz did elude my perception, though. What’s more, the 4kHz and 8kHz settings noticeably increased CPU load, with me noticing CPU load peaks of around 16% on the desktop when moving the mouse quickly at 8kHz. This drops to around 12% for 4kHz and around 6-7% at polling rates of 1kHz or lower.

We’ve seen this CPU load manifest as stuttering in games before, though didn’t specifically experience it on this occasion. Still, the 8kHz option is there if you want to get peak smoothness in certain gaming scenarios. It’s also available over both wired or wireless connections, with separate settings available for each connection in the software.

As for those optical switches, I wasn’t entirely won over. They have a particularly strong initial break point that felt like it made for more effort to press the button in a rapid fire fashion. It also results in a very hollow, thwacking noise as compared to the light click of many other gaming mice switches. The performance is there but the extra click effort and sound didn’t suit my taste.

Another feature that isn’t to my taste is the scroll wheel. It has quite soft, rounded notches/detents and a low-resistance motion as you turn it. This makes for a smooth feel but it doesn’t feel as precise for accurate control of in-game features such as weapon switching, as compared to some other mice.

The Glorious Series 2 Pro price is $119.99, which is reasonably expensive but in the same ballpark, and in fact cheaper than, many other top-tier ultralight wireless mice. The main competing options from Logitech and Razer are north of $150 and they don’t all include 8kHz polling like this mouse.

The Glorious Series 2 Pro is fantastic small, lightweight, wireless gaming mouse. Its shape is comfortable, its performance is top-tier, it’s incredibly light, and it offers decent value. It’s not my personal favorite for the surface feel, and scroll wheel feel, as well as the feel and sound of its buttons, but these can be highly subjective factors. If you’re looking for a very lightweight gaming mouse, the Glorious Series Pro 2 is a superb option.

Read our full Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 review for more information.

Corsair M75 Air

Although it lacks higher than 1kHz polling, the Corsair M75 Air is still an excellent performer with a very light 60g symmetrical design that, right now, is more affordable than the Glorious at just $79.99 (though it launched at a far higher $149.99).

Read our full Corsair M75 Air review for more information.