# What's your favorite ship in EVE Online? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [July 12, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910 "2025-07-12T16:17:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ginger\_Jiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ginger_jiang/32/461486_2.png) [@Ginger\_Jiang](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ginger_Jiang)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/1 "2025-07-12T16:17:02Z")
Drake, as of now. ---
**Author:** ![DeMichelle\_Geniale](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/demichelle_geniale/32/450875_2.png) [@DeMichelle\_Geniale](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DeMichelle_Geniale)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/2 "2025-07-12T16:34:14Z")
So far I like the Crucifier, Executioner and Catalyst. Still have to decide on Cruisers. Maybe Exequror or Vexor. ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/3 "2025-07-12T16:45:25Z")
- `Heron` for thievery - `Gila` for combat (both PvE and PvP) - `Praxis` for aesthetics and performing fireworks shows - `Sunesis` for versatility, mobility and travel 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Dyver\_Phycad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dyver_phycad/32/358575_2.png) [@Dyver\_Phycad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dyver_Phycad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/4 "2025-07-12T16:57:52Z")
Abaddon, Apocalypse, Sarathiel, Ark, Sentinel, Lachesis, Legion ---
**Author:** ![Syeed\_Ameer\_Ali](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/syeed_ameer_ali/32/411549_2.png) [@Syeed\_Ameer\_Ali](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Syeed_Ameer_Ali)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/5 "2025-07-12T16:58:12Z")
I have several favorites. The Rifter will always have a special place in my heart because when I was a newbie I tackled a Myrmidon in my little Rifter and held it just long enough for my corpmates to arrive. That moment is probably why I still play this game. The Merlin is special to me because it was my first solo PvP hull. I flew Merlins almost exclusively for years and soloed everything from corvettes to battleships in it. It was the first ship that made me feel dangerous. I never quite succeeded in my long-standing goal to solo a strategic cruiser with my Merlin, but I came damn close one day when I caught a Legion ratting and tackled him, but couldn’t _quite_ break his tank. However, I held him there for 45 minutes until my corp could form a fleet to help and got top damage on the kill. The Osprey Navy Issue is special because I used a cloaky one to menace Pandemic Horde’s staging systems for 4 years, getting about 500 kills, living in space out of a cloaky Orca and never docking up, defying all their efforts to catch me. ---
**Author:** ![Cypherous](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cypherous/32/499883_2.png) [@Cypherous](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Cypherous)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/6 "2025-07-12T19:25:19Z")
> The Rifter will always have a special place in my heart Amen, one of the earliest ships i used and i used a LOT of them, and lost a LOT of them, i have a Geri sat in my hangar and even though i will never use it for anything i just see it as the best version of the Rifter A ship so iconic it was on the box ---
**Author:** ![Laubrani](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/laubrani/32/430644_2.png) [@Laubrani](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Laubrani)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/7 "2025-07-12T19:40:24Z")
Jackdaw is no doubt the one I spend the most time in still. While it doesn’t have the DPS to move up in PvE it was a really good choice for me to get into early on. Currently I actually don’t have a favorite. If anything it would be Prophecy (Navy Issue), Prophecy fleets just look cool, but its still sluggish. ---
**Author:** ![Aiko\_Danuja](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aiko_danuja/32/481237_2.png) [@Aiko\_Danuja](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aiko_Danuja)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/8 "2025-07-12T19:47:02Z")
I used to like Catalyst best but then I realised that was just peer pressure. My favourite ship as a new player was Coercer so I have gone back to that and invented a new style of ganking I call Coercer ganking. Many are following this fad - stay tuned! ---
**Author:** ![Syeed\_Ameer\_Ali](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/syeed_ameer_ali/32/411549_2.png) [@Syeed\_Ameer\_Ali](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Syeed_Ameer_Ali)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/9 "2025-07-12T20:01:26Z")
Is it similar to regular ganking, but with Coercers? ---
**Author:** ![Aiko\_Danuja](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aiko_danuja/32/481237_2.png) [@Aiko\_Danuja](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aiko_Danuja)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/10 "2025-07-12T20:06:19Z")
Yes, but we call it blood raiding! I still remember the first time I got Coercer from NPC. It was bigger than the Punisher, but too many highslots. I didn’t have enough guns to fit it so I sold it. ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/11 "2025-07-12T20:15:33Z")
Try using different colored laser crystals: ![ecn46Er](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/2X/9/9c2eef28b6ac5b8ea9494191ee3d227d5e636aa9.gif) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Syeed\_Ameer\_Ali](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/syeed_ameer_ali/32/411549_2.png) [@Syeed\_Ameer\_Ali](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Syeed_Ameer_Ali)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/12 "2025-07-12T20:16:32Z")
Genius! 😀 I talk to miners sometimes, and I’ve been getting the impression that _some_ of them are starting to feel that getting ganked with Catalysts is getting a little old. They are going to be so impressed. I bet you’ll get a lot of great feedback. ---
**Author:** ![Gloria\_Exercitus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gloria_exercitus/32/509735_2.png) [@Gloria\_Exercitus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gloria_Exercitus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/13 "2025-07-12T21:06:17Z")
Overall favourite would be the Tengu. That said, EHP is not enormous and at over 500m ISK its not really the sort of ship for sitting outside Jita as you are more likely to end up being the target. ( My Legion has considerably more EHP but is annoyingly slower ). So the true role of favourite goes to the humble and seemingly puny Navy Augoror. At a mere 90m ISK, and being quite small, it actually has DPS not far short of a T2 Catalyst…at up to 15km. It has room for two neuts…or a neut and a nosferatu, and good scan resolution. It has good speed and armor tank EHP is more than for many of my larger ships. Overall a very nifty little ship…and at an ‘expendable’ cost. It’s not often you find a ship where _every_ aspect is good. I think that cost/benefits/risk ratio is what really matters in EVE. ---
**Author:** ![MB\_ThePhotographer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mb_thephotographer/32/373722_2.png) [@MB\_ThePhotographer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MB_ThePhotographer)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/14 "2025-07-13T01:59:32Z")
For all the killing I did, as an older player, I had many favs for their time. The most fun was a cloaked Orca for driving players nuts as I forced them outta their wh. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Mephiztopheleze](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mephiztopheleze/32/381036_2.png) [@Mephiztopheleze](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mephiztopheleze)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/15 "2025-07-13T02:36:41Z")
Dramiel. Fast, agile, small sig. ---
**Author:** ![T\_Elliot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/t_elliot/32/453851_2.png) [@T\_Elliot](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/T_Elliot)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/16 "2025-07-14T12:12:04Z")
Back in the day I always had a soft spot for nos-phoons. Today its the Loki, although I guess I spend more time in a mammoth than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Geo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/el_geo/32/423657_2.png) [@El\_Geo](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/El_Geo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/17 "2025-07-16T15:23:41Z")
Taranis! ---
**Author:** ![Kaivarian\_Coste](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kaivarian_coste/32/413759_2.png) [@Kaivarian\_Coste](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kaivarian_Coste)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/18 "2025-07-16T18:20:59Z")
the breacher is a super-versatile ship. it can be fitted for pretty much any fighting style. with 4 mid slots, you can choose an e-war of your choice. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ship-in-eve-online/492910/19 "2025-10-14T18:21:44Z")
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