Well for balancing, you know take some machine guns for example (ahem.. saw/bar/lsw) just give them +2 or -2 damage and they can change to OP weapons or trash weapons. Or spears...
Basically, are you saying that pancor is a trash weapon compared to other shotgun and deserve double tap trait as a straight buff ?
its not trash but in comparison to other shotguns it lacks something somehow plus remember that we talk about a noncraftable weapon, i payed yesterday with it and it feels a bit bulky for a bullup shotgun imo ... it does decent dmg not as much as a BAR or a SAW , also u dont have the range with it and it feels like a bit unmobile . you run out of ammo very quick if u burst , u dont have moving reload which let u stop when u reload which leads to if u chase someone then your clip is empty and u reload and u have to stop which is annoying because it has very limited range , well but that wasnt my suggestion ... what i mean is doubletap would give u the opportunity to reload without going into minus ap if u doing it in right time so it would feel much more like a mobile weapon or when u use singleshoots u could shoot 1 maximum 2 more bullets to the enemy which isnt a big deal since u dont deal OP dmg with singleshots , i always end up with 3 or 4 shells in the clip and my ap bar is gone even with max ap regen+ u need to wait 2 sec to shoot another shell if it would have doubletap and even then u couldnt spam with it i think , because it has high ap cost and again limited mag size... and average dmg on a well equipped opponent is ~30 per single shot per burst its something around ~50 on range and we talk about ~20hex eff range with high ap cost , with full clip u can eff burst 3 times and 1 shell is left so 4 burst isnt effective as other 3 ...
i think dmg wise its fine atm what would make it really interesting is moving reload and doubletap
ok im wrong on other shotguntraits but thats not a big deal the problem is that other shotguns almost similar in ap cost and have all mostly same traits CAWS and CMB Shotgun ... thats why most players prefer a cmbt shotgun over a pancor ...