[Autumn]

It's also not difficult to loop death gaze, or cutthroat, or absolute fear, or sonic shell, or.... Any of the silences in the game.

Death Gaze, Absolute Fear do not do (good) damage and have conditionals, there is still a moment before you get silenced where you can anticipate the motion, and even then both of these are beat by Heron Feather and often do not sway enough favor in the enemy's favor to sweep a match off it's feet, the mage is still stronger by stat checking alone.

Sonic shell requires you to charge your weapons, which is very accessible to Handgun users via spark drive, but handguns are very short ranged by default anyways, spacing can help here, also its still a status infliction check that is on a class that ideally will not build WIL. This makes it so anyone with decent SAN (20-30) will have a pretty decent shot at snuffing them out. Also again beaten by Heron Feather

Cutthroat? I'll give you that, but it is on VA, the premier anti-mage class.