So today I found out that silence is kind of much stronger than I realized.
Lets go back a few years. Silence's main counter traditionally has been lesser dispel wand on the ground (or casting lesser dispel from your book because it has no verbal component).
Then, quite recently there was some sort of update to how auras work which may be related to the problem but I cannot say with certainty. I'm pretty sure said update was more about making spellbook silence more potent against low cl dispels, and that it was never meant to affect silence consumables, and as far as I know atm that update had nothing to do with consumables. This made sense at the time because if you're a caster, using silence, then you're also required to pay the silent spell tax or you're crippling yourself too, and in theory Silence from consumables would still be counted by lesser dispel.
Today we ran some tests and discovered that silence consumables behave like all other consumables in that the roll vs dispels and spell resistance checks character lvl rather than item lvl. This is quite powerful because it means a mundane weaponmaster for example can shut down any caster pretty hard, by having Silence source of the same strength even if not duration. Lesser dispel no longers work when targeted on the ground, even against consumable Silence.
Now, my two cents?
As a warlock player (who cannot even apply silent spell meta magic on blasts) I'm left without any answer at all to a low tier potion anyone can use without cooldowns (remember when Clarity was in a similar state eons ago and we added cooldown?). So I'm staying away from casters indefinitely until (if ever) it's changed.
Thanks for reading.
