ok so im not a total beginner, ive been flying a tiny whoop for about a year and built a 3inch with help from a buddy but this would be my first proper prebuilt 5inch and i cant decide between the iFlight Nazgul5 Eco and the GEPRC Mark5. ive watched probably every youtube video on both and i keep flip flopping.

the geprc seems to have a slightly better frame from what i can tell and people say the soldering quality is cleaner out of the box. but the nazgul has a bigger community and finding betaflight configs and diff all dumps for it is way easier. my main flying is going to be freestyle with maybe some light racing at the local track, nothing crazy.

im running DJI O3 so whatever i get needs to work with that, both seem to support it but the mounting on the geprc looks cleaner in photos at least. budget is around $250-280 for the drone itself, i already have the controller and goggles sorted.

anyone actually flown both or at least one of them for more than a few packs? would love real feedback not just spec sheet stuff.

had the nazgul5 v2 for about 8 months, flew it hard. honestly out of the box the tune was kinda meh, felt a little mushy in fast direction changes, but about an hour of betaflight work got it feeling really good. the community thing you mentioned is real ? i found a diff all from someone doing basically the same flying style as me and it was a solid starting point. frame held up to some pretty gnarly crashes too, replaced one arm after a concrete faceplant and the rest was fine. for your use case i think it'd do the job well enough that you wont feel limited by the prebuilt.

i dont have experience with the mark5 specifically but geprc's build quality in general has been pretty consistent from what ive seen at our local track. a few guys run their cinelog and mark series stuff and the O3 integration always looked tidy. that said if community resources matter to you the nazgul probably wins just on volume of people talking about it online. either way you're gonna want to reflash betaflight and start fresh with the tune rather than trusting whatever they ship it with, both of them tbh