Play the game. What class do you thing the meme AA Cleric class is based on? Yep, it’s centered around a Rank 2 class. How are you going to build a Krivis Taoist? Yep, the entire build is centered around a Rank 2 class. Try building a Slash-damage based Shinobi. What are you going to need for it to work? Yes, Double Slash (Swordsman, a Rank 1 class) and Moulinet (Highlander, a Rank 2 class).
Stop moving the goalpost. You’re still missing the point saying those classes are great when the best they offer is just one single skill. And even if Barrage synergizes well with Feint, it’s only a filler, you can’t pretend that’s part of your main source of damage.
Play the game. WL2 awful? LMAO. Yeah, that’s why WL2 was never picked for R8 builds, though Drain and Trail are indeed awful skills, even with IMC’s pitiful attempt at reworking those skills, but the rest of the kit was worth it taking the circle 2. Inquisitor2 is actually decent in PvP, that’s what that circle is for and that’s the role that class is being focused on. You’ve probably started playing ToS recently, that’s why you can only give such few examples and wasn’t even able to recognize the “Rouge” jokes in the topic.
Mergen isn’t a great class, it’s Falconer that makes pretty much any Archer class work well. You can take BM, Cannon, Musketeer… They will all perform well as long as you have Aiming and Circling.
And since it’s so hard for you to understand the purpose of this topic, let me explain it for you. The fact that there are Archer classes that are in a fine situation doesn’t justify that other classes remain forgotten. You can make a class tree rebalance just by fixing a few classes, you don’t need to rework the whole tree. Even some of the reworked classes in the Wizard tree had only one of their skills changed, so that could be done to Mergen, for example. But at least Hunter, Ranger, Wugushi, Scout and Fletcher need to be reworked or have their issues fixed.