I have been playing DayZ since around 6 years and i feel like pistols/pistol rounds were perfect untill 1.0/1.01 update hit (they were perfect when vital organs were a thing too) when vital organs were removed (i understand they caused hitreg problems). Because their ammo is much more rare in 1.11 i think they should have much faster time to kill on unarmored players and should deal more shock when shooting players with helmets. It would make them viable guns to protect from freshspawns and mit tier loot survivors but also would make them usable vs armored enemies. I dont really understand shock values that guns deal but around 25% more headshot shock with 9mm and other pistol rounds seem balanced for me. When it comes to damage, 34 for 9mm, 28 for .380, 44 for .45 and 25 for .22. Many ammo types have crazy damage like latest .357 rounds. with its 105 damage so a little increase to pistols so they are more useful than axes or shovels and sledgehammers would be welcome. .45 damage would be a little too close to 5.56 and 5.45 so i would say they need 60 health damage and 7.62x39 should have 65 just because these rounds are heavier and stronger and they had the same damage as 5.56 since second stress test update when M4 was added. I hope you take these tips into consideration, they dont have to be even close to numbers i gave, i just want to make playstyles like sniper with pistol or coast fights more fun, currently pistols are only used for less than 10m spamming and praying they wont oneshot you.