About Crowd Control.

[Mr_Gyactus]

Second, if you truly want a fun and reactive fight, monsters should not have a predetermined rotation of skills. Have you seen any fighting games that is considered a little bit challenge, where the PC-controlled opponent has a predetermined routine?

Yes, basically every themepark from EQ2, WoW and later :-) and DMC bosses have rotations
Der ritcher (FF10) has a rotation, do you find it easy? A lot of FF12 hunting and bosses have a rotation of skills.

CC starts from the idea you cannot challenge 2+ mobs together.
Why? because they deal too much damage/debuff and you die.
But this does not mean you are forced to put one in sleep/paralyze.
If the problem is a skill, you can block -that- skill and take damage white from 2 or more, and that's CC.

Dodo is easy (it's only a big chicken), but what's the problem with 4 dodos? they use sleep, and you cannot block it. If we were able to counter sleep, we were CCing 4 dodos.