[Shujin]

I think it's fine as is, though. Kenseis tend to be faster than mages anyway- and when wind mages build for so much base CEL, they lose out on other stats.

Do they? Wind mages basically just need 5-6 stats. Cel, Will, Luc and the rest goes into Vit/Def/Res. It´s one of the most efficient mage classes with high mobility and huge range,together with the tank mages of Earth.

It´s not only Absolute fear that is getting nerfed into being unuseable for the most part.Nightflower gets completly negated even if you are faster and there are afew other silences that also pretty much completly countered by it just by being faster and otherwise you can kite someone basically to force him to use the whole fight Absolute Fear only(Cause if you move away as mage after being silenced the Kensei needs to move+Absolute fear. Repeat till Kensei runs out of FP). Silence is a strong effect, but herons feather is WAY to good. For an accescory slot atleast.

changing the auto silences to status inflictions and changing heron feather to increase the status res against it, might be better.
heck maybe add a talent for mages to resist silence only easier.

it would once again increase the stat spread a bit more to a reasonable amount for those wind mages, and make it probably more fair for both sides.
So I am against buffing Absolute Fear, but nerfing Herons feather and the general auto silences.