Just like the title suggests, my mousepads wear out within 2-3 months.

I use a Zowie EC2 eVo, on a cloth pad. QCK+ to be more specific. I typically buy two at a time, because tracking and glide on these pads tend to degrade within a month or so, and become unusable within 2-3 months.

Now it may be because I use exceptionally low sensitivity, that is 6/11, 2300 DPI, and 0.228 in-game (which seems to be roughly the same in quake/source engine games I play). This amounts to roughly across the pad to do a 180 degree turn, and around 270 degrees if i move the mouse sensor all the way across the pad. The sensitivity was something I got from like 0.16 with the DA3.5 I was using a year ago.

I had too many LoD issues with the DA3.5 even with the tape fix, and as well some tracking problems if I moved the mouse too fast, the amount of motion seemed to dip with speed, possibly due to a wagon-wheel effect of sorts. The zowie's larger skates seem to help with friction inconsistencies.

You can see the tracking here: http://i.imgur.com/dT9g518.png

The top four were made on a month-old pad, the bottom four were made on a just-out-of-the box pad. They were made by slowly moving the mouse in a comfortable position to generate a horizontal line (roughly), but to highlight high-and low frequency noise on the pad. These obviously show some differences, but they don't highlight a scarier tracking problem that I recently had encountered, where the cursor would snake down, across, back up to the line. These aren't sensor problems either, the lens is clean.

The real issue though, with old pads, is the friction changes. If you move quickly across an older QcK pad you'll notice that the center of the pad creates a drag of sorts. It's obviously less if you apply less normal force down on the pad, but it's completely non-existant on new pads. This would suggest that the cloth is hardening/flaking away and portions of the mouse skates are actually skating on the back of the traction. I don't know if this is a problem with all pads, because QcK is the only pads I've ever used.

I ordered a Goliathus control, because it's roughly the same size, cloth, and probably high-quality cloth, but I'm wondering if these pads suffer the same problems for other low-sens players. I'm also wondering if there are any other pads anyone can suggest, preferably solid color, because I know that the Zowie EC2 eVo's sensor functions best on white paper (from the data sheet). I should probably just switch to plastic, but I know if I do that I'll have to change my sensitivity, and there's just no way, I will be awful for a year or so. Maybe someone makes double stitched mousepads?

tl;dr: I shoot real good when I've got to move ~20-30 degrees in around 250msec, I don't shoot real good when I'm tracking a target within ~3-5 degrees, given any amount of time, and it feels like it's because my mousepad is wearing down to the rubber.