Ele complete shutdown during silence intended?

[Spacepunch]

just wear resto 4 set

[Stormspellz]

what is so special about eles here?
Doesnt this apply to kinda ALL casters?

other casters have more passive defensives, shamans are proactive defense, shear, grounding or reactive - tremor, ect. So a blanket silence elemental is literally a punching bag for the duration.

[shokter]

I realize this thread is about Ele, but I am wondering what are some good strategies for Enh to deal with these silences. I remember the blue comment joking that silencing melee is a waste of time (paraphrase) but I find myself near crippled as well when silenced. At least we can auto-attack, but does anyone have good coping/counter mechanisms for Enh for silence? I mostly do BGs, and no, not really at a high level, but I am trying to still up my game... Doesn't really seem right to be so crippled from Silences as melee.