[Autumn]

Also you got it backwards. A melee shouldn´t be the one to kite. The damage dealer mage should be the one who needs to think about kiting, if anything...Cause you know, they kinda have the range for that.

This assumes we are talking about every mage, while you might be right that a wind mage can have long range, they only have long range with their invocation, Vydel, anything else typically has lower range and can even be limited only to lines, on top of this there are other focuses like Earth that have much shorter ranges but are equally (if not more) impacted by silence, on top of this Melees, especially sword builds have much more insane mobility options compared to mages, being able to move with their skills more often than not, they are much more efficient at kiting than a mage could ever hope to be without something like Explosion pushing you back which can be negated by Spiked Treads.

Ghost, Nightflower users, black bubble and that one boxer punch that caused silence are all equally effected. Not only AF from Kensei. black bubble when used on hexer atleast has the curse to help.

Death Gaze has needed to be buffed for a while, Nightflower is an auto silence with a static chance (I think 100% on crit), Black Bubble has 3 duration at rank 5+ so it isn't as bad as the other silences, Sturm Shreik also provides good damage but has a status check, it could deserve the same treatment as black bubble and be 3 duration at max rank.