I've owned a set of Razer Carcharias for probably 13 years now (has to be somewhere around there I bought them when I worked at Best Buy during college.) They survived 6 years of heavy WoW raid use and they're currently laying on my desk for when I host webinars for work 3 times a week. I don't know what all the bitching online regarding them is about.
I hear a lot of good things about the HyperX headsets but I've never used one. I just bought a set of HYPERX cloud Earbuds for under 30 bucks while searching on some of the good earbud optins here for playing osu
https://www.reviewsed.com/best-gaming-earbuds/ and divisioning in World of Warships. They're... good. I like the mic as much as the Razer's because it's detachable and it is not fixed in place so I easily flip it up when not in use. I also easily find the faux leather cups super comfortable, just like the microfiber ones on the Razers, they are as nice as the cups on the Bose QC15s.
If it's the wire being destroyed, maybe go for something with a replaceable line in? You can get replacement line ins for most Sennheisers (my previous set of headphones before the mic became necessary) and Bose QC15's. There's also a couple of mics out there that can piggy back on nicer headphones which weren't available a few years ago.
Thinking about it, I probably have way too many headphones laying around so I really should stop buying them. I'm counting 5 working pairs of circumaural aural headsets right now plus 4 sets of earbuds.
