Rather then changing shotguns as they are now I think bungie just needs to scrap their idea of them all together. Swap hand cannons with shot guns and increase hand cannon damage while also lowering RoF. Place shotguns in the place hand cannons occupy now. They could also leave shotguns as they are now and make two different kinds; one that fires a slug like the Chaperone, the other is a buckshot. Buckshots are characterized by what's going to happen to them in the December update. The slug type shotties would deal about 1/3 as much damage but have range about as long as a lower range auto rifle. Like a sniper this shotty wouldn't get a hip fire reticule. From mid range it would almost always lose to primaries. From father close range areas it would win if you can land about to precision shots, in close range a body shot and melee should do it. This leaves an offensive shot gun and a more defensive buckshot type.
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Swap hand cannons and shotguns. That's a pretty good idea, I think
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Hand cannons are an effective primary as they are. They would need some changes to set them apart from sidearms, but yeah if hand cannons become secondary and shotguns become primary then it could work better.