Stalwart Shotgun Alt-Fire desperately needs a buff
Idk if I'm missing something but I've never ever been able to get this alt fire to feel useful. I've tried using it to trigger stagger damage but it doesn't seem much more effective at that than a standard shot. I've tried using it to set up a long-shot but it does too little damage and takes too long to set up to be worth it. I've tried to use it at close range to eat away enemy health but again it's just not as useful as using the higher rate of fire standard blast. I'm honestly at a loss for what this alt-fire is for. It uses double the ammo of a standard shot too
It needs something to make it more useful. Let us create multiple pellet fields in the air before shooting them off instead of just one, let us reposition to control/change the direction by default when we shoot. Give it a straight damage buff. Make the projected pellet field do more damaged the further it travels.
If I'm an actual dumbass and I'm missing something very important about how to see it as useful, please let me know. The one thing I've seen is that you can fire the standard shot pretty quickly after an alt fire. Is this all?