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>>8064241
Not all shielded enemies are made equal. You can brute force through mid-tiers with 4.26mm with enough firepower. This isn't practical of course, the most common tactic is to carry a grenade launcher for mid-tiers but carrying a handgun can help you a lot.
However once you get into barons and higher depleting the shield and then using 4.26mm or 12 gauge becomes a lot harder, thus I suggest you look for explosives be them rockets, heats, bronto bolts, or grenades. Try getting into the energy weapons. You can fry a baron's shield in seconds with thunderbuster.
All that said, the cybers and masterminds are a special case. They can easily one shot you and provide a small window for you to take them out. HEATs are a blessing if you have them.
Who said that you have to fight through the shitshow that is doom maps in the first place? Just find the exit and leave. People in vanilla try to break the progression of mapsets as much as they can with vilejumps, rocketjumps, glides and what not, yet here you are given all the tools to blow up sectors not doing what you are supposed to.