Quote Originally Posted by Ariel_Valmont View Post
Umbral soul is a level 76 spell and was new to shadowbringers, it hasn’t been around for several years. Transpose isn’t used to refresh enochian, unless your in dire straits. (I’m aware it does, but it’s not ideal nor part of the rotation)
Point here is that for years before monk got its ability to refresh GL with Form Shift, black mage had the option, at the very least, to keep up the enochian buff 100% of the time with the hit of a single button, meaning that if a boss became untargetable for too long a period, the black mage could maintain their job-specific buff while the monk could not. And there was a point in time that the black mage could reapply that buff with the press of a single button on a 30 second cooldown while the monk equivalent of perfect balance had a 120 second cooldown.

This is why I say that while there are similarities between the two, in my experience playing both jobs, monk was far more punishing during down time than black mage.