ROCCAT Vulcan 122 Mechanical PC Tactile Gaming Keyboard, Titan Switch, AIMO RGB Backlit Lighting Per Key, Detachable Palm/Wrist Rest, Anodized Aluminum Top Plate, Full Size, White/Silver

She loves it. Due to the visible under lighting, this keyboard gets brighter than my Corsair. You can of course set the brightness to a comfortable level. She really likes the color scheme that follows your typing patterns. After getting this, she got the Roccat Kone and mouse pad to complete the set, and the lighting pattern synchronizes across all of the devices. It looks great.

This keyboard feels great. Those Titan switches are the real highlight here you can really tell that travel distance is shorter than normal. My favorite keyboard Ive ever owned colors are phenomenal. Also the little wrist rest is a nice extra touch. Worth the price!

So, I’m not a gamer. I work in an office for 55-60 hours per week for an online retailer as a tech agent. That entire time, I’m typing; online communication, chats, emails, program commands, etc. Before this, I used a Razer Cynosa Chroma. Used it for a year until I couldn’t read the keys from such heavy use. I picked this up as I wanted to switch to mechanical. I now had 4 months of long, hard time on the Vulcan and I love this keyboard. After going mechanical, you’ll never go back. So much better to type on and the brown switches are not too loud and are super clicky. The keys are low-profile and responsive, which improves my typing speed and reduces strain in your wrists (I experienced this with taller keyboards). They are also mappable, so I can assign shortcuts for all my programs! The RGB is very grown-up looking (not like Razer’s over the top lighting which belongs in a 14-year-olds bedroom) and I love the AIMO lighting. Also, Roccat Swarm is simple and really easy to use. After putting this thing through the ringer for 12 hour shifts day in and out, it performs fantastic. Plenty of people tell me they love my keyboard too as it looks awesome! After almost 1000 hours spent typing on this keyboard, all I can say is just buy it.

My 12 year old son researched just about every keyboard and picked this one. He loves it. Great response from the keys and he loves the different light-up settings for the keys.

Honestly I love this keyboard so much. It has brown switches so the keys aren’t clicky sounding at all, but they still make a very nice soft click. I’ve had it for about a year and a half now. I wanted to write the review to show that the key caps can still be prone to the paint chipping off them. I attached a picture of my “C” key to show how a little piece of it came off. I contacted support by email about getting a new single C key cap and they just decided to send me an entire new keyboard instead. I didn’t need a whole new keyboard, but I guess that’s one way to solve the problem. Support was very quick and helpful though.

This keyboard is truly incredible and I am thrilled I took the chance on it despite reviews saying the paint of the keys chipped. If youre reading this youre already sold on the concept, mechanics, and look so I wont waste any time there. I have been typing at least 1000 words every day, in addition to doing video editing for a majority of the day where a dozen keys are pressed god knows how many times. I am happy to report that any issue of chipping paint was likely addressed and that even with sometimes slightly greasy fingers (an obscene sin I know...forgive me). There is zero sign of any paint wearing down. The only extremely miniscule downside is that the beautiful brushed aluminum plating can be scratched by hard objects like a ring.

So I bought this keyboard to replace the original Surface Studio Pro keyboard which as most Windows user knows comes with a very low profile and very quiet Scissors Switches. It has been years since I used a mechanical keyboard and I wanted it due to the fact that they usually last years longer than the Scissor switch boards, however, once you are custom to Scissor switches it takes some relearning and getting used to the mechanical switches again. I was prepared for that, I was nervous about the click sounds, I bought this because of the supposedly more quieter Titan switches from ROCCAT themselves, well, they are not that quiet and it annoyed my wife to the point that I had to return it or get a different apartment, I am now waiting for a different keyboard I am sorry to say. But not before I got to test this in a game and some playing around with the SWARM software. Another reviewer mentioned that the profile is not being saved to the keyboard and only working when the software was running and believed they resolved that problem. They did not, I spent an hour or so playing with the different configurations for illuminations and macro settings, there is a lot of stuff you can customize, you even have templates for different games. So, once you figured out your settings and shut off the computer it will save your configurations in the software which needs to be running in the background or it will use some default illumination settings on the brightest possible setting, another thing that made the Mrs go crazy, I noticed this because I tend to shut off unnecessary programs in the background to gain performance from the computer, and once I restarted the software SWARM the settings quickly set to your configurations. So, I did not like that part, for me it would be better if the keyboard remembered the settings so I can turn off background softwares that I am not actively using, but I can survive it. So, playing with this was fun, I had my macros and illuminations set, and the keys responded very well, the respond to very light touches, no need to press hard at all, this could be a problem for fast typists since that could create a double tap without you realizing it, the keys have a tactile sense but you can still feel the button press by a light press. To me that is good enough, I dont need a bump or a click feel to know that I am pressing a button. The click noise I was still getting used to, bu I do think they might be quieter than other keyboards I have tried in the past, but really? how much quiet can a mechanical switch button be, the difference is not big enough to choose this keyboard over any other mechanical keyboard, a click sound is still there no matter what and people will hear it around you, simple as that, reason to get this keyboard would be the endless configuration possibilities and low profile keys (switch covers -the key is low profile) that makes you see the switches somewhat, that comes with the minor issue of too much illumination from under the keys if you use a bright setting, it gets a bit disorienting and overwhelming for your eyes to focus on the illuminated letters, if you want to see the letters properly you need to lower the brightness a bit. Even then, you have issues seeing the FN row letters, they are not illuminated like the other letters on the same key for some reason, so you need to lean over to see what key you are pushing, especially in a low light setting. When it comes to the cord length, it is plenty enough, I sit approximately 2 feet away from the screen when I game or write, and I needed to wrap it up a bit for the excess cable, I dont understand people complaining about 4 cables being to short for a keyboard. The wrist-rest is not padded yet surprisingly comfortable and it is not a very raised rest, but it does help to reach the keys that is close to an inch high, the magnet is strong enough for you to move around the keyboard to your preferred placing without coming off in the process. For people worried about keys loosing their paint or wearing down so the button turns transparent and is all illuminated, that is a risk you will get from ANY illuminated keyboard eventually if you are a hard user of the keyboard, only way around that is finding a keyboard with resin keys or coat your own keys with resin or clear coat or ceramic coats with the cost of loosing any texture. No keys can withstand multiple hardcore presses from fingers for an eternity, when companies test their keys to hold 50 000 000 presses it is the mechanics they test, not so much how fast they will fade, a normal typist will probably never see keys fade the same way a hardcore gamer will who is pressing buttons like a maniac to stay alive in a FPS game or similar. Just something to think about, I see to too many reviewers complaining about keys fading and in some cases they might be fading faster than they probably should, but mostly it all depends on how you treat and use your keyboard as well. I have never experienced that problem ever, but I usually dont buy $20+ keyboards either and even during a game I tend to be fairly easy on the buttons. So, even though I like this keyboard and for reasons not being the keyboards fault, I had to return it, but from the little I got to use and test it I have to say I liked it and would have definitely kept this board. Some minor software improvements to wish for, but the keyboard felt very solid and looked clean and sleek for a mechanical keyboard. I will buy this again when I have my own computer room and I wont disturb my spouse by using it due to the click sound it does make, so the overall rating will be 4+ due to the software needed to remember the settings of the keyboard. I would love to see a Scissor Switch version of this keyboard, I would buy that right now if possible. Id say go ahead and try this board while they have the reduced price especially. This is also a German design, and anything German or European made is almost always some pretty solid stuff, and I speak from experience buying and importing a lot from Europe and Scandinavia.

D key is starting to not work at times very annoying other than that its fine

Keys peel. Read all the poor reviews. Seriously. Update: contacted Roccat. They told me it was a known issue and has been fixed in newer models. Shipped me a new keyboard in a week. Hope these new keys hold out better.

So the board itself is pretty good despite there being a considerable amount of space between each key, which is a minor and subjective critcism, what isnt either minor nor subjective is the fact that the entire legend of the keyboard for each key, is some kind of sprayed on material coating. These are not quallity keycaps and as noted by MANY reviews, the spray on legend simply crumbles off, mine within less than two weeks. Frankly this is unacceptable at this type of price, and basically negates any positive this board has going for it, which is a shame because aside form this massive oversight, this is such a great looking and distictive board. Item is in the return process. Basically DO NOT BUY this board, admire from afar, its not a very qualitly-focused item, it seems to be designed enitrely around the show factor. Im super disappointed.