TL;DR: MIDA is a balanced exotic that does what it's meant to do well. Just being used a lot at the moment because many people probably just got one. Let's be honest, in year 1 MIDA was easily the most balanced and versatile exotic primary. It was just overlooked by many because there were much better weapons for specific situations. MIDA was always usable in Crucible, but up until now it was over shadowed by weapons with faster ttk. Now that the ttk on most weapons has been evened out MIDA just seems to be a reliable choice to use. Sure people are running around with it, it was just sold by Xur and that makes it new and exciting for those that haven't had it before. Not to mention if you spend any time on these forums you would think it's the only primary in the game right now. So course more people are going try it out. It's a scout rifle the does what a scout is meant to do very well and it makes you run fast! It's also [b][i]exotic[/i][/b]. If any part of this weapon is changed it will lose it's exotic nature. It's supposed to be better than its legendary counter parts. If we (I know not everyone in the community is) continue this trend of crying for nerf to exotic weapons they will cease to be Exotic and become just another Legendary with a yellow background on the thumb nail. Just wanted to say my piece. I really like the MIDA and used it all through Y1 and into Y2 even before the Y2 version. I'm just tired of watch good exotics get nerfed into uselessness. If you read it all, thanks. Thank you to High Charity for sharing this detailed spreadsheet about weapon info... [quote]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L7FV9l4hXo2tHD3XlFUp854XvJIwTKFIPvASLduPPS4/htmlview#gid=0[/quote]