[Autumn]

In my experience its about only 50% of mages who are running heron feather simply because they don't want to be silence locked, being silence locked sucks ass and when physical attacks can be just as potent or even more potent than magic attacks (hello swift crystal rose) I see no reason for people to not be able to build to counter silence locking, maybe if Silence wasn't akin to being gutted entirely as a mage I'd see it some other way.

But if silence stays as it is now, locking out an entire skill set, let the wind mages have their moment in the sun and just balance out the outliers that make them powerful(Vydel's range for example) instead of throwing away the one tool mages have to counter absolute fear.

Heaven forbid Kensei have some way to be counterplayed other than crit evade right now.