Following Turtle Beach’s acquisition and retirement of Roccat, the release of the Vulcan II TKL Pro may leave a bitter taste in the mouths of fans. Originally a Roccat keyboard revived under the Turtle Beach brand, the beloved peripherals brand’s corpse is being puppeted once more to bring a new keyboard to market.
While the best gaming keyboards list is already stacked with competition, Turtle Beach’s latest keyboard proves that this underdog has new tricks, and it’s worthy of the race. The Vulcan II TKL Pro offers some of the most responsive switches around, with an intriguing design and stellar build quality that could see the brand actually take some market share.
Straight off the bat, the Turtle Beach Vulcan II TKL Pro has an interesting design that truly captures your gaze. The keycaps look like they are floating above the Hall Effect magnetic switches, allowing the ever-present RGB lighting underneath to shine brightly in a rainbow of colors. It’s a truly beautiful keyboard that feels like a blend of a gaming keyboard and a piece of decor, finding a true balance between performance and beauty.
In the rest of the box, you’ll also get a lengthy braided USB-C cable and, arguably, one of the weakest wrist rests I’ve ever seen. It’s a foam rest that bends too easily, looks rough and feels uncomfortable, and I did not use it for most of the review period. Fortunately, the cable is really high quality and allows for the flexibility to move the keyboard around, while still offering a durable braid. If you’re looking for a keyboard with a better wrist rest, you’d be better off going with the Razer BlackWidow V4 Pro.
However, the typing experience more than makes up for the Vulcan II TKL Pro’s lack of wireless and the terrible wrist rest. While the small keycaps take some time to get used to, the clicky and responsive feedback feels like magic to type on. The Hall Effect switches spring back into action almost instantly, giving a sense of speed and accuracy that allows for writing quickly in office cases, or easy strafing in competitive games.
I imagine that some people will find the small keycaps uncomfortable and easy to make mistakes on, but I found it relatively easy to get used to them. They feel very smooth to type on for long writing sessions, and they’re the closest typing experience to the ASUS ROG Falchion RX keyboard I’ve found so far, which I dubbed one of the best keyboards in my review.
Considering its affordable price of $149.99 too, the keyboard is one of the best magnetic keyboards I’ve used and at the same price as the Melgeek Cyber01 keyboard, while being a lot better and smoother to play on. The keys and switches are some of the nicest-sounding and satisfying to type on, and while there are some missing features that keep the Vulcan II TKL Pro from perfection, it makes Turtle Beach an interesting underdog in the keyboard market to say the least.
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