[Shujin]

Pretty against it.
There are enough ways to deal with Silence(Throatopener, Screamer,Silentprayer)and many melee classes have to deal with others things instead.(also melees are unable to dish out that much damage either)
Silence is a anti magic status effect which becomes litterally pointless when the person can still cast and deal 300 damage Sear or whatever.

If you can´t deal with Silence as a mage, you are doing something wrong.