why does enochian exist for black mage

[StouterTaru]

Blm would be the most boring job of the game without eno.

The buff is fine, but requiring the use of the skill is just a needless extra button. Hopefully next expansion they'll make the Fowl timer automatic with AF/UI.

On the question of why it exists, it's a thing because SE wanted to make the jobs more challenging with the HW expansion. Enochian originally was a buff on a timer, and casting B4 reset the timer (-5 seconds each time). BLM had several off-GCD buffs in HW, which doesn't work smoothly when most of your spells take a full GCD or longer to cast.

With SB, they got rid of the need to cast B4 to reset the Enochian timer, and made it easier to keep UI/AF up.