[MakeshiftWalrus]

Whispering Cant is a nice addition to Mage's line and gives it something to do in the events that the dreadful silence status effect. I think it was a healthy change for any casters out there, with the exception of one spell it also affects.

That spell is Blink.

At rank 5, the spell allows you to move 8 spaces from your current position, ignoring any and all movement-based debuff and root, including Frozen and Immobilize. This on its own was not an issue in the past, but with the addition of Whispering Cant, mages have become impossible to pin down without hard CC.

It becomes particularly oppressive when combined with Martial Artist or Duelist, which are very attractive choices to pair with Mage in the current meta. Not even the increased FP cost does anything to deter people from spamming it, increasing it to a whopping 6 FP at max rank, while silenced.

In short, it gives the mage too much mobility for no drawback, especially when combined with the more mobile classes of the game-- it becomes impossible to slow down under any circumstance.

So, here are some solutions I thought of:

1) Remove Blink from Whispering Cant's pool of spells: This is the one I want to suggest, myself. It removes the only real issue with the passive, which is Blink itself.

2) Make Whispering Cant main-class-only: This is an alternative to the above, and would force people to choose between increased mobility for damage reduction, or straight up damage. While I don't particularly want this option implemented, I do think it would be healthy to have more forced choices for the current situation of the PvP-scene.

3) Enforce a different penalty for the spell when silenced: This can be any number of added restrictions. Halved range, chance of failure, random chance to appear somewhere else in the blink-range instead of where you targeted. I've only so many ideas for what this could be, and others are more than welcome to think of some if they have the time.

At the end of the day, it's a very, very powerful mobility option. A little too powerful, in my opinion. Others are free to provide their own inputs as usual, but please keep it on-topic.