Shotguns have a very wide damage range of 20-150/170, and also only require 15 bullets per use. The wide damage range can cause a problem if the shotgun does very low damage and is very OP when it does high damage. If the shotgun did 50-125/135 damage and took 20 bullets per use as well as a small amount of energy, this would help balance shotguns more.

Reviving this.

Im actually going to disagree with you on this one Spikey...

The reason that shotguns are the way they are IS because of their far range of damage. When you lower the maximum damage to around 125, now you're getting in the range of a few mythical items. A well fusioned mythical could now make the shotgun obsolete.

People use shotguns for the chance at doing damage higher than anything else in the game, I think it should stay that way

About mythicals, this is to make the shotgun basically the mythical meteor for non-mythical players, although with a lower minimum damage.