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I’m buying my first razer mechanical keyboard after using the cynosa chroma for a while. I was looking at the blackwidow elite and I’m just curious if their are any other options in that price range. Thanks in advance!

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first of all what is your budget?
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I’m buying my first razer mechanical keyboard after using the cynosa chroma for a while. I was looking at the blackwidow elite and I’m just curious if their are any other options in that price range. Thanks in advance!

Dunno what's your price range. But according to BW Elite which costs about ~100USD - you won't buy better keyboard.
BW V3 (standard one) costs about 20-30USD more, and have better keycaps (PBT, instead ABS), also 2nd characters are also backlight. But you'll loose comfy wrist rest, which is great in BW Elite. On the other side BW Elite have non-standard bottom row size, so if you want to change keycaps in future, there are a lot less compatible sets with it.

Razer Huntsman V2 have wonderful keys (V2 Red switches are really awesome), but it costs almost 2x price of BW Elite.
I've been using no name keyboards for a while, and finally took the plunge and bought a BW Elite. It's so good. It just works, and the build is solid. However, I bought refurbished. Somebody had already ironed out the bugs, and it was in really good condition. Only the wrist rest was spoiled, and that was in the description. It's a really easy job to recover it, and I used real leather, so it's better than new. So look at the refurbed, too. Just be sure it's described as perfect or near perfect, and any flaws are described. I got a new set of PBT keycaps for it, which really make a difference. Mine has the revised green keys and I love them.
I have a Huntsman Elite, too, with different keys, and that is amazing. Got it the same way. 2 for 1, you might say.