"(Handgun) Scuttlebot Handgun"

I feel the scuttlebot handgun should shoot volleys of bullets instead of just the same way the scuttlebot attacks. And really i am a bit well really disapprove taking monster mechanics and turning them to weapons for us players. Seems too much like copy and pasting. So any way, one clip from the bullet shoots 3 volleys of consecutive bullets dealing no knockback, but flinching the target. Can deal normal and elemental damage plus has the freeze status.

Handguns:

I read through all of the Handguns with vigor (as a Gunslinger), and it seems like you did not research enough about the mechanics of weapons. For those Handguns to only have one clip, they all lack an easily executable charge attack (you'll have to reload to then start charging). Since you also never specified any charge mechanics, I have another take and think all of those Handguns only have a charge, much like Bombs. That leaves a sour taste in my mouth, as all Handguns are meant to be used traditionally one way or another (by traditionally, I mean like shoot normal shots and then switch to another Handgun to avoid reloading).

Specifically:

The One-Handed Crossbow is vastly inferior to that of the Callahan-line. The Callahan is two-shot (as opposed to single clip) and has an immensely-powerful charge. You cited that it dealt low damage, further weakening it.

Why is the Scuttlebot Handgun only a three star and apparently meant for shocking? No one would bother with it due to its pure restrictions to Tier Two Clockworks/Lockdown (which is dead), and the name would be incorrect. If you must insist on it being Shock, the proper name is Surgebot. Simply listing why it deals Shock is because Construct is like urging that Burmabots/Hazbots/Cinderbots deal Shock.

Your descriptions to the Gun Puppy/Howlitzer/Polyp Handguns/Rocket Puppy are confusing. Quoting where I found confusion:

... shoots one bullet (triple volley) at 1-5 stars...

If I were to make you edit, fixing that error found in those three Handguns would suffice.

Still on those three Handguns (excluding Rocket Puppy), they all apparently branch off the Gun Puppy, which starts at one star. That means it would have to be purchasable only (like the new Gunslinger Armor to avoid ragecrafting). You also made it so that the Four Star Gun Puppy is vastly superior to its Howlitzer/Polyp cousins (five bullets versus three). I suggest instead having each their own one star version and then modeling off of the existing Gun Puppy.

Is the Rocket Puppy Handgun apparently more like a Bomb? Apparently, you intended on it being usable as charge-only, like a Bomb.

Overall Problems with Handguns: Everything is one clip and that bothers me. Experienced Gunslingers hate reloading, and one-shots would not be quite as viable. Various other problems with each Handguns already listed.

Other Problems:

Darkfang Wrench Wand's charge is only situational and would be worthless to carry around some levels that lack any Gremlins.

Crimson Order Thwack Hammer would deal less damage than a Troika due to its buffs (Stun, Dmg. vs. Construct).

Shankle Shield: Shields are supposed to be defensive, with Shield Bashes its own means of passive-aggression. Description was not as clear as I think you wanted it to be? Damage Reflection or Shield Bump Vanaduke to Death?

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I thank you for your time. If your name holds true, brohoof.

EDIT: Took me a while to write this as I started at breakfast, went to work, started working, then remembered I had written some of it up so I had to finish it. Looks like Rhons said some things I would've said. Most of what I was saying was about 10:20 forum time, so yeah, that's a thing.

You said my names three times in one post on the suggestions forum, so now you'll get to hear my whine again.

Single-shot guns are a bad idea, primarily because of the whole "charging weapons" ordeal. The punch gun says it is a single-fire weapon, yet it fires two rounds per clip. Single-shot weapons simply don't fit into the game. The charge attacks can be a single shot however, so try to focus single-shot mechanics to those attacks.

For the sake of balancing weapons (which seems to be your whole point anyways), I will say what the clip sizes should be, then say my thought processes for guns with single-shots.

Crossbow
(2 shots) Sounds an awful lot like a callahan that doesn't root you in place. I would be sort of for it if the damage is worked with accordingly, and if we had high-chances statuses.

Scuttlebot handgun
(2 shots) A one-off allows for more random factors to a weapon, so it can pass up here. It just needs to have a fair amount of range instead of being, like, 1 tile long. Should be at least 1 tile longer than the longest sword range.

Turret guns
(3 shots) Essentially what I said before, they're trying to be a blaster and an autogun, and failing at both. Still not feeling these weapons.

Rocket puppy launcher
(2 shots) Idea has been thrown around, but there's a lot to be considered here. The physical rocket being fired should be a charge-only ability. The standard attack can be something like a short-ranged push of concentrated air and gunpowder that deals high knockback and moderate damage, or it could have a little gun attacked to the rocket launcher that attacks with standard attacks.

Wrench wand revamp
Removing mender circles, no. No to that in general. Do you want to cast status runes however? Such as either a poison one or maybe a fire one? That I can say yes to. I'd say no more than one rune per person, and have them be smaller in size than the mender rune. You want to disable the runes, why not instead combat the mender's runes with poison ones that make them do your job for you? (Plus it feels more like a unique weapon)

Resistor set
I have since responded to that post.
Having little to no defense is not going to help, even with such massive status boosts. The "anti-boosts" I was talking about would be something like putting "ASD: low", "DMG penalty: low", and "CTI: medium" per piece, but having +2 to most statuses. You could have it not resist curse and instead provide a nice amount of defense as well.
Low defense in higher tiers is not helpful. Instead of lowering defense on a set that only is useful when it gets hit, add combat debuffs. Damage and ASI penalties of low per piece will not affect combat too negatively, and CTI will not matter too much, it'll just be harder to bring a bomb with you.

Shankle shield
Still fine with this. I would say have one in each damage type. Would be kind of awkward if they dealt the same damage as they resisted, so they could all resist normal damage but deal normal/piercing/shadow/elemental.

Trojan plate shield
Same thoughts as before - good shield if it's simply a branch off at 5*, like all the other plate shields.

Dodge shields
We've played with the idea of dodge cooldowns a lot on the suggestions forum, but I'm not sure if shields are the way to do it. If the shield was like a swiftstrike for dodge, it could work I suppose. Not really for or against this one, but I'd rather see dodge armors first to see what a good number would be for a shield.

And as for suggesting things in the future, try to do it all in one thread. I appreciate the bit of humor you put in against me there, but people might not know the relevance of that thread, and think that you've got top researchers working on anti-fangel spray as we speak.
Also, it's much easier to read 1*-5* than it is to read *-*****. I don't mentally see the difference between 4* and 5* when they're all asterisks, but I can tell at first glace what start level it is with the number in front.