A series of lubricated pin-on-disk wear experiments were performed to investigate the tribological behaviors of in-line (IN) and staggered (ST) patterned PVD TiN coatings as well as a fully TiN-coated (FC) coating on M2 steel against ASSAB 17 tool steel mating pins. The influence of applied load on the tribological behavior of the individual types of coating was also investigated. The experimental results showed that the tribological behavior of the two patterns and the FC M2 steel sliding against tool steel was a function of applied load. The wear resistance for any PVD TiN coating pattern was relatively higher at the specific individual loadings of 394, 800, 900 and 1100 N for 4 h under wet lubrication. Wear loss of the two types of patterned discs and pins was lower than that of the full coating counterpart. Wear mechanisms are suggested.