The laser pistols are fine i think, they're not that OP by themselves.
It's the crit damage, since armor does not stop the damage from the crits, against a suit of metal armor and without crits the laser pistol probably won't do much more then a 10mm pistol, with crits that damage is x4 and you suddenly are hit for 100 damage, since you might as well have been bursted by some kind of laser SMG.
I almost lost while wearing Mk2 metal armor to a sneaker in a bluesuit with a plasma pistol, who did -head- shots for 120-150 damage each hit, if he wasn't so squishy i wouldn't have been able to even kill him before he killed me.
Comparing the price of a mauser vs a laser pistol i don't have a problem with the damage in non-crit shots, but when you might as well be in a bluesuit when fighting the guy with the laser pistol while he's in the same armor as you, it's a little unfair.
As for the phazer, that wasn't a serious weapon, and more of a joke, if you want to add a weapon in to the game, why not a sawed off laser rifle that you can wield in one hand?
-Ulrek-