[Shujin]

I'd be fine with buffing the duration of Infliction-check Silences.

I would not, however, buff the duration of Absolute Fear's silence. Nor is the skill 'useless' enough to warrant buffing a Silence that can be slapped on without a care for status resistance, unless you're telling me that somehow, everyone and their mothers runs the entire Bravery talent and everyone and their mothers would run Heron Feather over either a major stat-booster accessory, Sayakana, or any sort of Elemental Resistance booster.

Every mage who is afraid of silence either runs Sceamer or Heron feather. It´s actually a thing. Silence immunity is just so much etter than 4-8 stat.

And well I do run all the bravery talent tree on every character that uses melee,there is no reason to not do that. mages don´t need that for that was basially the last part of AF.
So I am saying that everyone and their mother uses those, yes.

But I do agree with what you say aside from that, make silences staus infliction and leave it be otherwise. Heron feather is a issue however in my opinion.

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Yeah but thats the problem, Silence basically never shuts down even a round now. For either screamer removing it entriely for one M which is sort of fine giving you use your handslot/weapon slot for it and a good chunk of HP, or herons feather existance, or silent prayer or...Throatopener, honestly just cause no one uses it, doesn´t mean it doesn´t exist it´s just three M, meaning you still can use your charge minded spell that turn unless invocation.
Now it only has a chance to silence someone if you happen to be faster (which won´t be the case when they are windmages), and even this one turn silence would only be useful for Teamfights to allow your teammate to do something. Cause you will be busy reapplying it with your full turn (25FP per use which is actually a lot for the usual Kenseis that have around 160 normally), if the mage isn´t standing there like a deer watching the approaching car and just moves, still having 3 M for something else.
Thats litterally how fights go and thats not fun. So basically you can just not use a silence and save the annoying back and forth. Al