so ive been going back and forth on this for like two months now. currently flying a self built 5inch on F7 stack with xm+ and it's fine but honestly i'm just tired of fixing stuff every other session. got a new job, less time to bench, you know how it is. the nazgul evoque f5 keeps coming up whenever i search for prebuilt 5inch that isnt garbage out of the box and the price point isnt insane.

main thing im wondering is how much work does it actually need before you'd trust it for real flying, not just hover tests in the backyard. ive heard some people swap the motors right away and others say the stock ones are fine. also curious how the tune is on the newer batches because early reviews said it was a bit twitchy on the D term but that might have been fixed in later firmware or maybe i'm remembering wrong.

not looking to race or anything, mostly freestyle and the odd long range-ish cruise with a GPS module thrown on. if anyone has actually put meaningful hours on one i'd love to hear it rather than just youtube reviews that are all basically sponsored anyway

had mine for about 8 months, put maybe 80 packs through it give or take. honestly the tune out of the box was useable but i did spend an evening in betaflight tweaking the filtering because there was some propwash on quick direction changes that annoyed me. nothing crazy, just bumped the RPM filter a bit and adjusted D a little lower than stock and it cleaned right up. motors are still the originals and they're holding up fine, get a little warm after long sessions but nothing alarming.

the frame took two crashes and survived both, one of which was genuinely embarrassing. i'd say it's probably the most painless prebuilt i've owned and i've been through a couple. the vista in mine has been solid too which i was worried about at first.

i looked at this one too before i ended up going with the geprc mark5 hd. not saying the nazgul is bad i just got a good deal on the geprc. from what i read the evoque is pretty well regarded but like you said the early batches had some tune weirdness. probably worth flashing to the latest betaflight release before you even maiden it tbh, some of those prebuilts ship on older firmware and the defaults dont always make sense for how they're actually set up