I use the roccat taito, my mouse glides pretty good. but it is a pretty small pad.
If youāre sensitivity is low and you have space in your set up for a large mouse pad Iām currently using a Zowie GS-R mouse pad and it works really well. Itās extremely stable and I donāt have issues with it folding on itself or difficulty moving the mouse. The one possible issue you could have is that it is 18" x 15".
I canāt say Iām an expert on friction and roughness of sandpaper and the like, but I have used both hard and soft mouse pads before and my experience has been consistent with what I hear almost unanimously from the internet as well which is that hard surfaces wear down the feet much more quickly. 
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Fair enough. Both hardness and friction are factors in how much wear is caused, and without experimenting I have no way to know for sure. If thatās the common experience, I guess thatās solid enough information to be going with.
Not that Iām going to change what Iām doing. My mouse is wearing out slowly enough that something else will give long before the feet wear out. 
Hard pads concentrate the friction on the mouse feet, resulting in less friction but more wear. Soft pads, i.e. cloth pads, have the mouse sink into the pad a little, which increases overall contact area.
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Just dont lress mouse into pad that much.
And wash it times to times.
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