When I was first looking to get into doing higher end content in this game, I asked a veteran friend what it was like. He explained it to me as it's like learning a choreographed group dance. And...yeah, for the most part, it is. Some people are going to dislike that and find it boring. I'm a former theater kid who loved learning big group songs and dances, so that immediately sounded like fun to me, and I have indeed enjoyed raiding ever since I started.

It's a little more complicated than that, of course. Unlike a routine, most of the harder fights have a certain amount of variation, where one of X many patterns can appear and you need to adapt accordingly, or one of 2-4 mechanics will happen at a certain point. You can't really just braindead these fights--there are several variations that you have to be ready to adjust to on the fly. So yes, it's mostly just a choreographed dance and memory games. I guess that's exactly how it was presented to me by my friend though, and I like those kind of games, so I'm still having fun. Your mileage may vary.