Too short of range, too much risk for the reward, especially when there's burns involved where cover is important to have so you aren't 1-2 shotted. The update will be real nice for shotguns in pve despite the range nerf again but I'm guessing that damage buff in pve is going to get nerfed also in the future. 4 shotgun blasts it took me to kill prohibitive mind for a bounty with invectis, which is a solar weapon vs a void shield. With the update it'll be 2. I smell nerf just from that. Then again it would just make shotguns op for any pve activity lvl 26 and under. Not so much when it's lvl 30 or higher though. I know one thing is for sure, I'll be bringing a shotgun to many more situations.