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Wingman:
- 6 shots, no heavy mag attachment
- 35 damage per hit, if keeping skullpiercer attachment
- original launch stats in all other respects
Mozambique:
- 5 or 6 shot magazine
- Buff damage per pellet from 15 to 17-18
- Leave everything else alone
Regarding Wingman further:
The 'sniper buff' has added some variety, but Wingman is still dominant. The raw damage is just too high for being a high-mobility high-accuracy sidearm, especially with Skullpiercer in the mix. The heavy mag attachment is what exacerbates that, allowing you to "spam" the weapon for much longer. A fixed 6-round magazine would go a long way to toning that down, but directly addressing the raw damage would fully address it. Bear in mind 35 damage, without skullpiercer, still means it's 3 hits to down a target that has no shields, 2 if one is a headshot, same as now - the difference is that 1 skullpiercer headshot isn't almost equivalent to a full shield bank. Reverting to its originally higher rate-of-fire+stability will help to ensure it doesn't lose its appeal as a high-caliber revolver, particularly in close quarters.
Reverting the Longbow's rate of fire increase would do well in making sure that such a nerf to the Wingman would not, in turn, put the Longbow into the Wingman's former "clearly dominant" spot; if not for needing so many more attachments and being harder to find than the Wingman, I would go as far as to say it would be as dominant as the Wingman now.
Regarding the Mozambique further:
I don't think the memes have been worthwhile in the long run. I'd like to see this and the P2020 be more viable. The major limiting factors are the overly-restrictively-small clip size and pretty low damage per hit, bearing in mind a fairly wide spread for just 3 pellets.
It's worth pointing out that the shotgun bolt attachment increases the Mozambique's rate of fire significantly, helping to make up for its damage deficit, but the clip size is so small that it can't support the increased rate of fire, making the point all rather moot. Increase the clip size, and you increase the value this gun can have with the attachments.
(As for the P2020, I would add a stabilizer attachment and raise the damage per hit.)
