My Aries Nemesis X4 (vanilla weapon has the same fire rate and impact as The Scholar. It has 6 more range, but loses a small amount of stability in return. It's a great about rifle, but I still prefer MIDA. Faster movement speed makes strafing enemy shots work amazingly. They'll miss all the time. It's less damage per shot, but the larger magazine, maximum reload speed, higher fire rate, and aim assist of 90 versus The Scholar's aim assist of 40 makes it way better imo. MIDA is a headshot/enemy fire dodging machine.