The vexor is gun bonused and sort of expected to use them, the ishtar is not. You can fit a 1600mm plate based tank and "basically anything you want" to the vexor already if you don't make much use of the highs, or you can fill your highs with utility modules at the cost of a lighter tank and tighter fitting. It's a fair trade off.

One thing first:

Eagle needs a huge max lock range increase to begin with.

70km is way too low for a double 10% optimal range bonused ship , it is only 5km more than the deimos's...
increase it to 85km or more

Yup.
All hail the great "rebalance".
Nothing wrong with paying 400 M for a hull and subssytems, plus risk 3-5 days SP every time you fly it, for the privilege of gutting the rigs every time you want to change its role.

Yes, will be doing that instead of buying 20 T1 cruiser hulls that outperform the T2 and T3 equivalent.

I think the Cerberus is going to be really powerful. It can now do the extremely long range thing with HML as well as added capacity to be an amazing HAM skirmisher.

It did get a minor speed nerf.

sarcasm malcanis or expressing that HAMS range is still insanely high atm

I think you're super wrong here. We will have to see I guess.

In AHAC blobs only, since when did CCP adopt blobby gameplay as the baseline for balancing? .. just askin'

Take a Zealot out solo or in small numbers without access to unlimited reps and links out the wazoo and it is suddenly so far below par that one is better off using something, anything, else.
- Give it 25m3 drones and be done with it .. either that or tweak it so it can have a 4th mid or tracking bonus. The reason for the above is its complete lack of fight control making the paper its DPS is written on soggy like used diapers.

Sacrilege looks good .. until one sees the Cerberus ... hahahahaha. That thing will be broken beyond belief, doubly so when you get around to sorting eWar and TP's get their renaissance. Fifty kilometer HAM spam with super speed missiles doing in excess of 500 dps (TP's, remember?), now add the capless ASB .. what could possibly go wrong ..
- Increase Sacrilege damage bonus to 7.5% or go Khanid on its ass with a base cap boost and replacing recharge with neut/not amount

Rest are about the same, better due to laxer fittings and improved medium guns .. Muninn will be tasty as either Arty sniper or Auto slugger which is good.

If you make a cerberus go near vagabond speed. it will be completely super overpowered by orbiting larger ships with MWD signature reduciton and never missing shots.