Ships & Modules

Just out of curiousity to find a new jewel in the box of EVE: What are the most underestimated ships you know for PVP and why do you think they are so underestimated?

There are a few TBH and I'd hate to tell you the why cause well I like not everyone knowing the why.

So here a few that come to mind.

Moa
Ferox
Exequror Navy Issue
Augoror Navy Issue
Prophecy
Cyclone

I would not say the Cyclone is underestimated as of today.

It's just that you can be SO SURE of its fitting.

Agree on the Cyclone, but I was onboard before ASBs is what I was mainly saying.

Prophecy is def not crap, I'll go toe to toe with a Harby and very likely win

Tormentor I agree on, very nice lil boat.

definetly the merlin.
it opened my eyes one day not too long when i was in blue space heading to a set destination in my daredevil, i landed on a gate, and 14km of that gate sat a lonly merlin with no friends anywhere near.
my first tought was "why bother" but then again a hauler might jump trough the gate and i didnt want to risk that so i tought i would wake up hes fellow clone.
true that the daredevil cannot really tank or gank, i did not see any real risk.
i aggroed him, and he engaged me. i tought to my self, atleast he got balls. but he just absorbed the damage i was doing, and my repper was not keeping in pace with the damage of the blasters he had on me, and i could not mwd out of range at this point, i decided to try finishing him off anyhow.
but the sad part was, i did not, its true i was the one able to dictate speed and the loss was to blame on my ignorance.

i opened the holy eft and beholded, the merlin can tank 200dps and deal 150, it can scram, it can burn, it can pass trough any system without people being afraid of it. thats what a underestimated pvp ship is all about.
i quicly logged in my jump freighter alt, went to jita and bought a bunch of merlins, and fitted them all with 2medium ancillary boosters and jumped in one, went to nearest region that was not habitated by friends to my alliance.
i let everyone on my way scan my ship type so they would not report me as ufo or nv, and instead they would report a t1 frigate, unknown to pvp that deep in 0.0

i found myself in a system of 25 neutrals, i scanned out a drake doing a anomaly, i warped to him and scrammed him. letting off my glorious blasters, and watched that drake melt with the help of the angel malakims. he offered me money, but i just wanted to se him in agony after he had lost hes drake to a t1 frigate. and alot of lols did it generate, no longer was i ashamed of my loss earlyer, and instead bowd down for the mighty merlin.

i continiued down, another system with alot of inhabitants, they docked, i changed my name ships name to "wts 10/10"
and announced in local i had this to offer, not too long after that they had scanned my shiptype, they must have tought, why else would he be here in a merlin, and undocked and went back to doing anomalys.
with a smile on my face, i warped to a tengu in a haven, knowing i could not break hes tank i decided to test my ship.
i scrammed him, and shot at him. with the help of couple npc we tryed to kill him. but after half a minute tanking the tengu, i had to abort becuase i could not tank him anymore.

seeing as i was tired and long way from home, i decided id give the 6people a fight that had undocked to kill me.
i was facing a drake, abaddon, hurricane, enyo, crusader and a malediction.
i tought to myself, "merlin, prove yourself worthy for this titel" and went guns blasing, taking on the crusader, finished him off, went for the malediction, but at that point i did not have the distance to my aid, and was unable to deal damage, i could not do anything more than orbit and wait until my charges would run out to face my inevitable doom.

This is why i, Red zeon vote the merlin for this glorious titel.

Badgers

Fuk yah Nano Torp Raven FTMFW. I go dual web plus TP. Really soft, but it's great in gangs.

blasphemy!!!

Any of the covert ops ships gets my vote.

I have never fought, nor flown one....but an ECM tengu! My corp mates ridicule me for wanting one, but noone flys them so the WTF factor would probably be worth it. Granted the Rook has the better jam strength, but tengu has the tank.

Also there is a "falcon" variant but its pretty poor lol

Procurer's, Oh sure, you have a itty bitty wittle mining barge, well with the right skills and mods this itty bitty mining barge can get around 85% resist across the board and 100k shields on it's own, a full set of T2 drones and some GOOD drone training and you have yourself a VERY ghetto drone boat.