Silence isn't THAT difficult to have, though.You have PLD, you have NIN, you have BRD and MCH, and you have the trainwreck that is SCH's silence, lmao. There was a particularly deadly Silence mechanic in A6S. Of course, the deadly part was nerfed once A6S made it into Duty Finder, precisely because of the reasons cited above: you could get a party without Silence, and then you're fucked. As Tint said, though, you could have used Silence potions for that, but that's having too much faith in the DF playerbase.