I wish they gave us actual mechanics and not just patterns. Its fine to have a boss do something specific say at 50% hp, but other than that its better if they use their abilities freely. That is what makes a good fight. The patterns are just the first part of dumbing the fights down, to do more just makes them silly.

As I said before wiki does not dumb anything down, just gives strats. You still need to know your job, even with patterns there are ppl who know so little about their job they cannot do it. Like the smn who uses no dots and just spams ruin2 or the whm who uses nothing but medica, or the brd who only uses heavy shot. These players are out there and they are the ones who are the most vocal and reason for further nerfs. Myself I like to go for new content with a FC and learn the fight before I look at anything. However with the current state of the game if you are unable to do so within the first couple days of content release and do not have a fc that is up to par or willing to do the content you need to at least watch a video cause you are not going to get a DF pt that will last more than a couple wipes.

Those of us who want more challenge need to start being more vocal and need to not bail after a wipe or two or this game is going to really turn into a snoozefest.