I would love to have a larger selection of smuggler weapons. I'm just getting a little tired of hardlight bow and queen taivra's spear for the evasion boost. Also more shield tech specialist weapons, really there's only one shield boosting ranged weapon and its a kinetic weapon not a energy weapon.
Smuggler Weapons: Consider the
Shock Bow for Ranged and
Lightning Rod or
Custom Shock Gear for Melee. These all have Stun Chance; a 1/5 chance to Stun for 2 rounds on each hit, which enables Sneak Attack/Aimed Shot.
Royal Shard Bow is also very effective against anything that doesn't have significant Drug resistance. It also has more Evasion than the Hardlight Bow. Honestly, I use the Trick Bracer on my Ranged Smuggler. 1 fewer Evasion for bonus Shields and Shield Defense is very nice.
Tech Specialists: How often do you find yourself running out of Shields? In my experience, I find I don't need bonus Shields from weapons at all. I went Attack Drone to see just how bad it was, and found it to be very effective. It probably helps that Charge Weapon is possibly the best special ability in the game (+Intelligence Electric Damage). Still, I don't even use it in most fights at this point (or Deflector Regeneration), and I was raising Intelligence every level and ignoring Physique until I hit level 10 and beat the Shock Hopper. For reference, currently I've got 185 Shields (115 Reaper MK 1, 50 Augment-Weave, 20 Shield Tweaks).
I find base weapon damage doesn't really matter for Melee, because Charge Weapon is so good. Personally, I use the Custom Shock Gear because the level 10 Rapid Recharge perk = 40 Shields regenerated each time the Stun goes off. Don't underestimate the
Vamp Blade. 50% of the damage you do to Shields being added to yours can make you effectively immune to damage for the first couple of turns.
Something to keep in mind: +20% bonus damage is only applied to the weapon's base damage, so it's not as large as it might seem.
Charge Weapon has no type requirement. In fact, you can electrify a rock! (The default weapon if you don't have any equipped.)
I haven't played a Ranged Tech Specialist, so I don't know how that plays out with Overcharge being limited to Energy Weapons. I have heard you can do silly things with a Slut Ray, though.
In any case we're getting a new planet 'soon', and with it should come new equipment.