Your powers are techniques that you have mastered through long practice in the Martial arts. Some techniques reward a high Wisdom and are well suited for the Soft Style monk, while others reward a high Dexterity and appeal to the Hard Style monk.
At-Will Techniques
Flurry of Blows
You strike out in all directions at the enemies that surround you.
At-Will * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Targets: Up to three creatures
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC (up to three attacks)
Hit: 1[W] damage per attack
Increase damage to 2[W] at level 21.
Special: Each attack must target a different creature.
Insightful Strike
You spot an opening in the enemy’s defense and strike.
At-Will * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Reflex
Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage.
Increase damage to 2[W] + Wisdom modifier at level 21.
Martial Strike
This simple maneuver is one of the basic techniques of your martial form.
At-Will * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Dexterity modifier damage.
Increase damage to 2[W] + Dexterity modifier at level 21.
Special: This power counts as a melee basic attack. When a power allows you to use a melee basic attack, you may use this power.
Nerve Strike
A carefully-placed strike deadens one of the enemy’s limbs.
At-Will * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One disrupted creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1[W] damage, and the target takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls until the end of your next turn.
Increase damage to 2[W] at level 21.
Level 1 Encounter Techniques
Crane Bores the Brush
Emulating the crane, you strike with a swift, fierce thrust.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action
Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and you can push the target one square.
Great Throw
Using the enemy’s momentum against it, you turn and throw it to the ground.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. Reflex
Hit: 1[W] + Dexterity modifier damage. You can switch positions with the enemy. You can slide the enemy into any unoccupied square adjacent to you. The enemy falls prone.
Heron Takes Flight
You dance and weave around the opponent’s attacks, guiding him into position — then, you strike.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, and you can slide the target one square.
Miss: You can slide the opponent one square.
Effect: You gain a +1 bonus to AC and Reflex defense until the end of your next turn.
Soft Style: Your bonus to AC and Reflex defense is equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1).
Tiger Lunge
You leap forward, delivering a powerful blow and sending your enemy staggering.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action
Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and you can push the target a number of squares equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1). You can shift into the square the target left.
Hard Style: The enemy takes a -1 penalty to AC until the end of your next turn.
Special: You can use this power in place of a melee basic attack when you charge.
Level 1 Daily Techniques
Crane Stands in the Still Pond
You rise onto the ball of one foot, ready to strike at any enemy who approaches.
Daily * Ki, Stance
Standard Action * Personal, Stance
Effect: Until the end of the encounter, you are slowed, but you may make an opportunity attack against any creature who enters a square adjacent to you. You may end this power early as a free action.
Eagle’s Claw Strike
You focus your power and deal a crippling blow to your foe.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the target is weakened and slowed (save ends both).
Miss: 1[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the target is slowed until the end of your next turn.
No Shadow
You strike so swiftly that your enemies don’t see the attacks.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Primary Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom + 2 vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, and you can make a secondary attack.
Miss: Half damage.
Secondary Target: One creature other than the primary target.
Secondary Attack: Wisdom vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage
Miss: Half damage.
Stunning Fist
Targeting vital nerve clusters, you leave your enemy reeling in pain.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Fortitude
Hit: The target is stunned (save ends).
Miss: The target is dazed (save ends).
Level 2 Utility Techniques
Earth Stance
You root yourself to the ground, refusing to yield. Attempting to move you, your attacker only unbalances himself.
Daily * Ki, Stance
Minor Action * Personal
Effect: Until the end of the encounter, you cannot be pushed, pulled, slid, or knocked prone by an attack. You still suffer damage and other effects of the attack. If an attack would force movement or knock you prone, and your attacker is adjacent to you, that attacker grants combat advantage to you until the end of your next turn. You can end this stance early as a free action.
Leap of the Clouds
You can leap a great distance without a running start.
At-Will * Ki
Move Action * Personal
Effect: Make a high jump or a long jump. Determine the DC of the Athletics check as though you had a running start. The distance you jump can exceed your speed.
Missile Deflection
Before the arrow can strike you, you’ve cut it out of the air.
Encounter * Ki
Immediate Interrupt * Personal
Trigger: An enemy hits you with a ranged weapon attack.
Effect: You take no damage or other effect from the attack. If you have a free hand, you can choose to catch the weapon or projectile.
Monkey Dances
You move out of harm’s way, evading the attacks of your enemies.
Encounter * Ki
Move Action * Personal
Effect: You can shift a number of squares equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier.
Wholeness of Body
Taking a moment to meditate, you shrug off the effects of your wounds.
Encounter * Ki
Move Action * Personal
Effect: You gain an immediate saving throw with a bonus equal to your Wisdom modifier against any one effect upon you that a save could end. You also recover an amount of hit points equal to your Constitution modifier.
Level 3 Encounter Techniques
Butterfly Lands on the Iron Pole
It’s no more than a touch, but it sends your enemy hurtling away.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Fortitude
Hit: You push the target a number of squares equal to your Wisdom modifier, and the target falls prone. If the target strikes another creature or a solid object before completing its movement, it stops in the last square it occupied prior to the collision, and both it and the object or creature it hit take 2d6 damage. You can shift into the square the target vacated.
Soft Style: The target is also dazed until the end of your next turn.
Heaven Strike
You maneuver your enemy off-balance, then deliver an overhead strike, smashing him to the ground.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Special: You can shift one square before or after this attack.
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the enemy falls prone.
Hard Style: The enemy takes a -2 penalty to AC and Reflex defense until the end of your next turn.
Mantis Grasp
Emulating the mantis, you grab your enemy in a crushing grip.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Requirement: You must be able to grab the target.
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Reflex
Hit: Damage equal to your Wisdom modifier, and you grab the enemy.
Effect: While you sustain the grab, the enemy takes damage equal to your Wisdom modifier at the end of each of your turns.
Whirlwind Kick
Pivoting, you launch a vicious, sweeping kick.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Close burst 1
Requirement: You must not be immobilized, and you must use your unarmed strike for this attack.
Target: Each creature in burst that you can see
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] damage, and the enemy is dazed until the end of your next turn.
Level 5 Daily Techniques
Atemi Strike
Targeting the enemy’s vital points in quick succession, you lock its limbs, paralyzing it.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action
Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the enemy is stunned (save ends).
Second failed save: The enemy is helpless (save ends).
Miss: The enemy is stunned until the end of your next turn.
Shadow Stitch
You hurl a ki-charged projectile into your opponent’s shadow, and he finds himself pinned, unable to move.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Ranged weapon
Requirement: You must use a thrown dagger or shuriken for this attack.
Target: One or two creatures.
Attack: Dexterity vs. Reflex (two attacks).
Hit: The enemy is restrained (save ends).
Miss: The enemy is immobilized (save ends) and cannot be pushed, pulled, or slid until freed.
Tiger’s Roar
You loose a thunderous kiai shout, leaving your enemies quailing.
Daily * Fear, Ki, Thunder, Weapon
Standard Action * Close burst 5
Target: Each enemy in burst
Attack: Wisdom vs. Will
Hit: 1d10 thunder damage, and the enemy is weakened until the end of your next turn. If the enemy is bloodied, it moves its speed plus your Constitution modifier away from you. It avoids difficult terrain and dangerous areas if it can. This movement provokes opportunity attacks.
Miss: The enemy is weakened until the end of your next turn.
Viper’s Bite
Your strike disrupts the enemy’s flow of ki, effectively poisoning it.
Daily * Ki, Poison, Weapon
Standard Action
Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, the target is disrupted, and the target takes 5 ongoing poison damage (save ends).
Miss: Half damage, and the target is disrupted. No ongoing damage.
Level 6 Utility Techniques
Iron Body
Focusing your ki, you cause your body to become as tough as iron.
Daily * Ki
Minor Action * Personal
Effect: Until the end of the encounter, you gain a +2 power bonus to AC and Fortitude Defense.
Lessons of the Way
Your philosophical riddles and aphorisms cause others to think about what they know in new ways.
Encounter * Ki
Minor Action * Close burst 10
Effect: Each ally in the burst who is able to hear you may reroll any one Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion check they make during this encounter and take the better result.
Monkey’s Climb
You nimbly climb almost any surface.
At-Will * Ki
Move Action * Personal
Prerequisite: You must be trained in Athletics.
Effect: Make an Athletics check to climb a surface. You move at your full speed during this climb.
Slow Fall
You slow your fall and land gracefully on your feet.
Encounter * Ki
Free Action * Personal
Trigger: You fall any distance.
Effect: Treat the fall as though it were 100 feet shorter. In addition, you do not fall prone at the end of the fall.
Level 7 Encounter Techniques
Crane Bows to Heaven and Earth
You stab at the enemy’s eyes.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. Fortitude
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the enemy is blinded until the end of your next turn.
Flow Like the River
You follow through on your attack, bringing more enemies within your reach.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Primary Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage
Effect: You can shift one square and make a secondary attack.
Secondary Target: One creature other than the primary target
Secondary Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage
Hard Style: Instead of shifting one square, you can shift a number of squares equal to half your Constitution modifier (minimum 1).
Iron Arm Technique
Your ki empowers the muscles of your arm, and you deliver a blow that could smash through steel as if it were paper.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Fortitude
Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, and the enemy gains vulnerability 5 to weapon damage (save ends).
Strength of My Enemy
Your enemy’s attempt to strike you invites your retaliation.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Immediate Reaction * Melee weapon
Trigger: A creature you can see that is within your melee reach makes a melee attack against you.
Target: The triggering creature.
Attack: Wisdom vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Wisdom modifier damage.
Soft Style: You gain a +1 power bonus to your attack roll.
Level 9 Daily Techniques
One Pillar to Support Heaven and Earth
You hammer your foe with a succession of powerful open-palm blows.
Daily * Ki, Thunder, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Requirement: You must attack with an unarmed strike.
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier thunder damage, and the target is dazed until the end of your next turn. Until the end of the encounter, each time you hit the target with an unarmed strike, he becomes dazed until the end of your next turn.
Miss: Half damage, and the target is dazed until the end of your next turn.
One Strike, Two Cuts
Your blow ruptures the enemy’s flesh, causing him to bleed profusely.
Daily * Ki, Reliable, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon or Ranged weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the target takes ongoing 10 damage (save ends). If the target is bloodied while the ongoing damage is still in effect, it is weakened until its save succeeds.
Tiger Rakes His Prey
Grabbing the enemy, you deliver a vicious blow to his midsection.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee unarmed
Requirement: You must be able to grab the target.
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Reflex
Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, and you grab the target.
Miss: Half damage, and you fail to grab the target.
Sustain Standard: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, and you sustain the grab.
Whirling Fury
You lash out with a succession of strikes as you move across the battlefield, pinning the enemies down as they fend off your assault.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Effect: Move your speed. Any time you would provoke an opportunity attack for this movement, make an attack against that enemy.
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and you can slide the target one square. The target is immobilized until the end of your next turn. You do not provoke an opportunity attack from the target.
Miss: Half damage, and the target is immobilized until the end of your next turn. The target can make an opportunity attack against you as normal.
Level 10 Utility Techniques
Balancing the Scales
Your enemies thought they had you surrounded…
Encounter * Ki
Immediate Interrupt * Personal
Trigger: An enemy who is flanking you makes a melee attack against you.
Effect: You switch positions with the other enemy who is flanking you. The attack targets that enemy instead.
Heaven Stance
Your light step carries you around the enemy’s attacks.
Daily * Ki, Stance
Minor Action * Personal
Effect: Until the end of the encounter, you gain a +4 power bonus to AC against opportunity attacks. If an enemy makes an opportunity attack against you and misses, that enemy grants you combat advantage until the end of your next turn.
Moment of Clarity
In the moment before the battle begins, you see all possibilities with perfect clarity.
Daily * Ki
No Action * Personal
Effect: Use this power instead of rolling initiative. Your initiative score for this encounter is equal to 20 + your Wisdom modifier + any bonuses or penalties that apply.
Perfect Balance
You move swiftly and gracefully even in the most difficult circumstances.
At-Will * Ki
No Action * Personal
Prerequisite: You must be trained in Acrobatics.
Effect: You automatically succeed on Acrobatics checks to balance, except on checks you must make because you took damage. On such checks, you gain a +5 power bonus. You can move your full speed when balancing, and you do not grant combat advantage while balancing.
Level 13 Encounter Techniques
Crane Looks to the Four Directions
A flurry of quick motions helps you escape a dangerous situation.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Close burst 1
Target: Each creature in burst that you can see
Special: You can shift one square after this attack.
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, and you can push the target one square. If you were granting combat advantage to the target, you can push the target an additional square.
Hard Style: After pushing a target, you can slide the target an additional square.
Grass Cutting Fist
The enemy doesn’t bend before you — it breaks.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, the target is disrupted, and until the end of the encounter the target is unable to shift (save ends).
Soft Style: Until the end of the encounter, each time you hit the target, it is unable to shift until the end of your next turn.
Hare Kicks the Mountain
You slam a bone-crunching attack into your opponent’s leg.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the target is slowed (save ends) and falls prone.
Level 15 Daily Techniques
Bending Willow Stance
You bob and weave, moving with your opponent’s attacks like a willow tree caught in a storm.
Daily * Ki, Stance, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, and you take half damage from the target’s attacks until the end of your next turn.
Effect: Until the end of the encounter or until the stance ends, you gain a +2 power bonus to AC, and you can shift one square as an immediate reaction any time a melee attack is made against you.
Earth Strike
With a loud kiai, you strike the ground, causing a nearby area to heave and quake in the wake of your blow.
Daily * Ki, Thunder, Weapon
Standard Action * Area burst 2 within 10 squares
Target: Each creature in burst
Attack: Wisdom vs. Reflex
Hit: 3d10 thunder damage, and the target is immobilized (save ends) and knocked prone.
Effect: Until the end of the encounter, the burst area is considered difficult terrain.
Sustain Standard: Make a Wisdom vs. Reflex attack against each creature in the burst area. Those hit take 1d10 thunder damage and are knocked prone.
One Wind Blows Many Leaves
You make your way across the battlefield, parrying and counterattacking as you go.
Daily * Ki, Stance, Weapon
Standard Action * Personal
You can move your speed as part of this action. You do not provoke opportunity attacks for this movement. Each time you first move within your melee reach of an opponent, you may make an attack against that opponent.
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] damage, and the target is slowed until the end of your next turn.
Sweeping Serpent Strike
You strike with a sinuous motion, grabbing your opponent in a constricting grip.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Requirement: You must be able to grab the target.
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Reflex
Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, and you grab the target.
Miss: Half damage, and you fail to grab the target.
Effect: While you sustain the grab, the target takes 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage at the end of each of your turns. If you are hit by an opportunity attack while moving the target, you may make a Wisdom vs. Reflex attack roll against the attacker as an immediate interrupt; if you hit, then the grabbed target is hit by the opportunity attack instead of you.
Tranquil Touch
As you strike, you tap a certain vital spot, and your enemy collapses.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1[W] damage, and the target is unconscious (save ends). If the unconscious target takes any damage, it is no longer unconscious.
Miss: 1[W] damage, and the target is knocked prone.
Level 16 Utility Techniques
Abundant Step
You move from here to there in the blink of an eye.
Daily * Ki, Teleport
Move Action * Personal
Effect: You teleport up to a number of squares equal to 10 + your Constitution modifier. Any enemy within your melee reach at the end of your move grants you combat advantage until the end of your next turn.
Blade Catch
You clap your hands together, catching the incoming attack between them before it can strike you.
Encounter * Ki
Immediate Interrupt * Personal
Requirement: You must have two free hands.
Trigger: An enemy hits you with a melee attack.
Effect: You take no damage or other effect from the attack. If the attack used a weapon, the target drops that weapon. You can hold onto the weapon, or you can drop it in your square as a free action.
Cloud Step
You make enormous, soaring leaps.
Daily * Ki
Minor Action * Personal
Effect: Until the end of your next round, you can fly with a speed equal to your move + your Constitution modifier. If you do not end your turn on a solid surface, you fall.
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the effect until the end of this encounter, or for five minutes. You must end each turn on a solid surface, or you fall.
Purity of Body
Taking a moment, you cleanse your body of impurities and restore the proper flow of your ki.
Daily * Ki
Standard Action * Personal
Effect: You automatically succeed on one saving throw against ongoing damage or one Endurance check to improve your condition if you are diseased, or you negate your exposure to disease for the remainder of this encounter. In addition, you can spend a healing surge.
Level 17 Encounter Techniques
Fist of Wind
You strike into the air; across the battlefield, your enemy recoils as though struck.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Ranged 20
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, and the target is dazed until the end of your next turn.
Special: This attack does not provoke opportunity attacks.
Guiding the River
A gentle touch in the right place is all it takes to redirect the force of your opponent’s blow.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Special: You can shift one square before or after this attack.
Attack: Wisdom vs. Reflex
Hit: You can slide the target one square. The target makes a melee basic attack against another enemy of your choice within its reach. The target loses its next standard action.
Soft Style: The target gains a +2 power bonus to its melee basic attack.
Heaven’s Judgment
A resounding blow leaves your enemy reeling.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action* Melee weapon
Target: One creature that you have grabbed
Attack: Wisdom vs. Fortitude
Hit: 3[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, and while you sustain the grab the target is restrained instead of immobilized.
Monkey Rages Against Heaven
You burst into motion, throwing a succession of swift, reckless-seeming attacks toward every enemy nearby and forcing them to give ground.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Close blast 3
Target: Each creature in blast that you can see
Special: You gain a +2 power bonus to your attack rolls until the start of your next turn, but you suffer a -2 penalty to your AC. You can shift up to two squares in the direction of the blast after the attacks are resolved.
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and you slide the target up to three squares.
Hard Style: Choose one enemy you hit. You can shift up to three additional squares, ending your move adjacent to that enemy, and that enemy grants you combat advantage until the end of your next turn.
Storm of Blades
You strike with the fury of a raging thunderstorm.
Encounter * Ki, Lightning, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One to three creatures
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC (three attacks)
Hit: 1[W] + Dexterity modifier damage per attack. Additionally, a target struck once takes 5 ongoing lightning damage (save ends). A creature struck twice takes 10 ongoing lightning damage (save ends). A creature struck three times takes 15 ongoing lightning damage (save ends).
Level 19 Daily Techniques
Dragon’s Countless Coils
Every time the enemy tries to strike, he finds you’ve anticipated the blow.
Daily * Ki, Stance, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. AC
Hit: 4[W] + Wisdom modifier damage.
Miss: Half damage.
Effect: Until the end of the encounter, each time the enemy attempts to attack you, you can counterattack as an immediate interrupt. The counterattack is a Wisdom vs. AC attack that causes 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage and allows you to shift one square if you hit. The enemy can make a saving throw to end this effect.
Eye of Heaven
Your eyes might be fooled, but the universe cannot be; you let it guide your strike to where it must be.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Special: This attack ignores cover, concealment, and invisibility.
Attack: Wisdom vs. AC
Hit: 5[W] + Wisdom modifier damage.
Miss: Half damage.
Rabbit Courts the Moon
You dance about your foe, drawing him in and leading him exactly where you want him.
Daily * Ki, Stance, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 4[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, you can shift one square, and you pull the target into the square you vacated. You mark the target.
Effect: Until the end of the encounter, the target suffers a -4 penalty to attack rolls against you. Each time you attack the target or the target attacks you, you can shift one square and slide the target into the square you vacated. The target can make a saving throw to end the attack penalty, but not the movement effect.
Shattering Blow
A single blow is all you need to devastate your opponent.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 4[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the target is stunned and gains vulnerability 5 to all damage (save ends both).
Miss: Half damage, and the target is dazed (save ends).
Level 22 Utility Techniques
Auspicious Moment
You bide your time, waiting for the best moment to strike.
Daily * Ki
Standard Action * Personal
Effect: You can spend a healing surge. Ready an attack action. If you perform the readied action before the start of your next turn, you cause a critical hit on a roll of 17-20, and you gain a +5 power bonus to any damage you inflict. If you do not perform the readied action, you recover the use of this power.
Diamond Body, Diamond Soul
Your spirit proves unassailable.
Daily * Ki
Immediate Interrupt * Personal
Trigger: An enemy hits you with an attack.
Effect: You take no damage or other effect from the attack. You can shift up to a number of squares equal to your Wisdom modifier.
Strike the Spirit
Your ki-enhanced attacks strike not only at the bodies of your opponents, but at their very spirit.
Daily * Ki, Radiant
Minor Action * Personal
Effect: Until the end of your next turn, your attacks cause radiant damage, you can strike insubstantial creatures for full damage, and your attacks that would normally target AC instead target Reflex Defense.
Sustain Minor: This power can be sustained until the end of the encounter, or for five minutes.
Touch the Void
Even a moment of insight can often yield great results.
Daily * Ki
Immediate Interrupt * Personal
Trigger: You make a d20 roll and are unhappy with the result.
Effect: You can reroll, adding a power bonus equal to your Wisdom modifier to the result. You can choose which result to use.
Level 23 Encounter Techniques
Carry Pebbles, Move Mountains
One of the most elementary techniques of your art forms the basis of a lightning-quick combination of strikes.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Primary Target: One creature
Attack: Special
Hit: Special
Effect: As part of this action, make a melee basic attack or use an at-will technique against the primary target, with a +2 power bonus to your attack roll. You can shift one square and make a secondary attack.
Secondary Target: One creature
Secondary Attack: Dexterity + 2 vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the target is dazed (save ends). A target who was already dazed is instead stunned (save ends).
Hard Style: After you make your secondary attack, you can shift one square and make a melee basic attack against an adjacent creature.
Eight Million Stars in Heaven
Your shuriken fill the sky, flashing with the light of heaven.
Encounter * Ki, Radiant, Weapon
Standard Action * Area burst 2 within 12 squares
Requirement: You must be wielding shuriken
Primary Targets: Each enemy in burst that you can see
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier radiant and weapon damage, and the target is dazed until the end of your next turn.
Effect: Make a secondary attack against the target
Secondary Target: One creature
Secondary Attack: Wisdom vs. Will
Hit: The target is blinded until the end of your next turn.
Eye of the Hurricane
Through sheer force of will and manipulation of your ki, you draw your opponents in. Your fists are waiting to greet them.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Close burst 10
Primary Targets: Each enemy in burst
Attack: Wisdom vs. Will
Hit: You can pull the target a number of squares equal to your Wisdom modifier (maximum number equal to its move). If you pull the target adjacent to you, you can make a secondary attack.
Miss: Unless the target is already adjacent to you, it shifts one square toward you. You do not make a secondary attack.
Secondary Target: One enemy
Attack: Wisdom vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, you can slide the target a number of squares equal to your Wisdom modifier, and the target falls prone.
Scorpion’s Tail
Your strike disrupts the opponent’s ki, afflicting him with a terrible sickness.
Encounter * Ki, Poison, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Fortitude
Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, the target is disrupted, the target takes 10 ongoing poison damage (save ends), and the target is weakened until the end of your next turn.
Soft Style: The target is weakened until its save against the ongoing damage succeeds.
Level 25 Daily Techniques
Earth Below, Heaven Above
As the enemy approaches, you use its own momentum to send it crashing to the ground and follow up with a swift blow.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Immediate Interrupt * Melee weapon
Trigger: An enemy outside your reach moves to a square within your reach.
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. Reflex
Hit: 6[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, the target is slid to an adjacent square opposite you, and the target is knocked prone. If the square opposite you was already occupied, the occupant of the square takes half damage, is pushed one square, and falls prone.
Miss: Half damage, and the target is knocked prone.
Ghost Dancing Strike
Moving swiftly, you hit your opponent, then fade away in the blink of an eye, only to strike again from somewhere else entirely.
Daily * Ki, Teleport, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Primary Target: One creature
Special: You can shift one square before this attack.
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, plus 10 ongoing damage (save ends), and you can teleport a number of squares equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier. If you teleport adjacent to an enemy, you can make a secondary attack.
Miss: Half damage and half ongoing damage. You can teleport and make a secondary attack.
Secondary Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, plus 10 ongoing damage (save ends).
Miss: Half damage and half ongoing damage.
Heaven and Earth Meet in the Middle
You strike high, then low, throwing your enemy off balance and sending him stumbling to the ground.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC (three attacks)
Hit: 2[W] + Dexterity modifier each attack. If the first attack hits, the enemy grants combat advantage to you and your allies (save ends). If the second attack hits, the target falls prone. If the third attack hits, the target takes 5 ongoing damage (save ends), and you can slide the target a number of squares equal to your Constitution modifier. Saving throws against each effect must be made independently.
Ki Explosion
Focusing your ki on a distant spot, you cause a sudden ground-level explosion, crippling your opponents’ legs and sending them sprawling.
Daily * Force, Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Area burst 3 within 20 squares
Targets: Each creature in burst other than you
Attack: Wisdom vs. Fortitude
Hit: 6d6 force damage, you can push the target a number of squares equal to your Constitution modifier from the origin of the burst, the target falls prone, and the target is slowed (save ends).
Miss: Half damage, you can push the target 1 square from the origin of the burst, and the target is slowed (save ends).
Effect: The burst area is considered difficult terrain until the end of the encounter.
Level 27 Encounter Techniques
Eight Winds of the World
You leap across the battlefield, sowing chaos among your enemies as you go.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Personal
You can move your speed as part of this action. Until the end of this round, each time you would provoke an opportunity attack from an enemy, the enemy must instead make a melee basic attack as an opportunity attack against itself or against another enemy it can reach (at your option). The enemy cannot decline to make this opportunity attack. If the enemy hits, you may make a secondary attack against the enemy’s target if it is within your melee reach.
Secondary Attack: Dexterity vs. Will
Hit: 1[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the target is immobilized until the end of your next turn.
Phoenix Rises from the Ashes
Capitalizing on your opponent’s missteps, you take the opportunity to focus your ki and strike.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Immediate Reaction * Melee weapon
Trigger: An enemy within your reach suffers from an effect that a saving throw would end.
Effect: You can spend a healing surge as part of this attack.
Target: One creature
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 4[W] + Dexterity modifier damage. If the target is bloodied, it takes an additional 1[W] damage.
Hard Style: If you spend the healing surge, you also gain a number of temporary hit points equal to triple your Constitution bonus.
Respectfully Decline with Thousand Apologies
Your control of your own ki negates the opponent’s stratagem, turning its power back upon itself.
Encounter * Ki, Weapon
Immediate Reaction * Melee weapon
Trigger: You are hit by an attack that would cause an effect other than damage.
Effect: You take the initial damage of the attack, but you negate all other effects. You can attack the creature who attacked you if it is within your melee reach.
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Reflex
Hit: The target takes damage equal to the damage you took + your Wisdom modifier, and the target suffers the additional effects of the attack that you avoided.
Soft Style: After resolving this power, whether you hit or miss, you gain a +2 power bonus to attack rolls against the target until the end of your next turn.
Seal Ki
You strike your target’s atemi points in a certain complex sequence, sealing the flow of his ki and causing excruciating agony.
Encounter * Ki, Necrotic, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Wisdom vs. Fortitude
Hit: 3[W] + Wisdom modifier necrotic damage, and the target takes 10 ongoing necrotic damage (save ends).
Sun-and-Stars Kick
You leap high into the air and crash down on your target like a meteor.
Encounter * Ki, Thunder, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Primary Target: One creature you have charged.
Special: You use this attack in place of a melee basic attack during the charge.
Attack: Dexterity vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, the target must move one square, and the target falls prone. This movement provokes opportunity attacks from your allies, but not from you.
Miss: You slide the target one square.
Effect: A close burst 2 originating at the location you now occupy.
Secondary Targets: Each creature in burst.
Attack: Wisdom vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1d10 thunder damage, and the target falls prone and is deafened (save ends). If the target is already prone, it instead takes 3d10 thunder damage and is dazed and deafened (save ends both).
Miss: The target is deafened until the end of your next turn.
Effect: The burst area is considered difficult terrain until the end of the encounter. You can shift a number of squares equal to your Constitution modifier.
Level 29 Daily Techniques
Dragon Tail
To your enlightened perspective, the moments stretch into minutes. There’s plenty of time to counter every move the enemy makes.
Daily * Ki, Stance, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon * Personal
Effect: Until the end of the encounter, you gain a +4 power bonus to all defenses. Any time an enemy that you can see and reach attacks you, you may make a Dexterity vs. AC attack against that enemy. If you hit, the target takes 1[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and its attack misses you.
Mantis Double Clutch
Your enemy struggles in vain to escape your stone-crushing grip.
Daily * Ki, Reliable, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Requirement: You must be able to grab the target(s). In order to target two creatures, you must have two hands free.
Target: One or two creatures
Attack: Wisdom vs. Reflex (two attacks possible)
Hit: 2[W] + Wisdom modifier damage, and you grab the target.
Effect: While you sustain the grab, the target is restrained rather than immobilized, and it takes damage equal to your Wisdom modifier at the end of each of your turns. The target cannot attack you while you sustain the grab and takes a -5 penalty on attempts to escape. If you grab two targets, you can sustain both grabs as a single minor action.
Presence of the Master
A simple tilt of the head or narrowing of the eyes is all it takes to strike fear into your enemies — and to inspire your allies.
Daily * Fear, Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Close burst 10
Target: Each enemy in burst that can see you
Attack: Wisdom vs. Will
Hit: The target is stunned (save ends). After the first successful save, it moves its full speed away from you on each of its move actions (save ends). It avoids difficult terrain or dangerous territory if it can. This movement provokes opportunity attacks.
Miss: The target is dazed (save ends). After the first successful save, if the target is bloodied, it moves its full speed away from you and loses its next move action.
Effect: Each ally in the burst who can see you can spend a healing surge, and each gains a +5 power bonus to one d20 roll of their choice that occurs before the end of your next turn.
World Breaker’s Hand
You concentrate the totality of your being into a single eradicating strike.
Daily * Ki, Weapon
Standard Action * Melee weapon
Target: One creature or object
Special: You automatically break or burst an unattended object with this attack, unless it is an artifact.
Attack: Dexterity vs. Fortitude
Hit: 6[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the target takes 20 ongoing damage (save ends). After the first successful save, the target takes 10 ongoing damage (save ends).
Miss: Half damage, and the target takes 10 ongoing damage (save ends).