Interesting, apparently nobody knows?   Is this not something that monks can actually do?

Man, tough crowd here, got kicked twice for asking a question!  Thanks for the reply Cannonball.   Where can this information be found without asking in a forum (apparently that gets you kicked)?  What are the openers?  Any normal attack that you crit on?

For now, it is hard to tell if an attack skill is an opener, bridge, or finisher.  Even worse, it's even harder to tell what kind of pre-requisits are there to trigger the skill.  The in-game tooltip sometimes tell u if it's a finisher or advanced finisher, and what skill it follows, but it's really unclear.

With my limited beta experience, i've made the following conclusion:

Openers: Boundless Fist, Ashen Hand, Crescent Kick, Divine Whirlwind
Finishers: Flying Kick, Thousand Fists, Divine Typoon
ADV Finishers: Kick of the Heavens, Thundering Fists, Divine Avalanche

It works like this:
Choose Any Opener -> Choose Any Finisher -> Choose the ADV Finisher that follows
ie you can open with bounless fist, and then flying kick, and then kick of the heavens
you can also do ashen hand, then flying kick, then kick of the heavens
but you CANNOT do ashen hand, then flying kick, then thundering fists (because thundering fists is NOT the adv finisher of flying kick)

NOTE: In order to progress to the next step in the chain, you NEED TO SCORE A CRITICAL HIT!
ie If you open with Boundless Fists and it critical hits, then you may choose a finisher.  If your finisher also crits, then you may choose to do an ADV finisher.
If you open with Boundless Fists and it did NOT crits, then the chain ends here.

NOTE2: The Divine AOE line (whirlwind, typhoon and avalanche) may be bugged or I'm too stupid to figure it out, but i have never ever gotten it to work.  Maybe the line doesnt work off crits.  I have no idea.

I may need you guys to help me on this...  I have all the data in my abilities database from screenshots I took of every ability on-screen, but I'm not 100% sure on the rules and how to interpret the icons.  Give me a couple of days to fill out the data, and I'll try to write some code to make these combos clear in the ability details pages.

One thing im curious about with the ADV Finishers. Do These only trigger from critical hits from the normal Finisher? For example While fighting those dragons outside of KHal on my level 35 monk i would hittin all the finishing flying kicks but rarly did the ADV finisher Trigger. I Did pay attention to wether i missed the finisher or not and most of the time i did no miss so im curious is it just a random trigger chance or does the ADV finishers trigger from crit hits like i hear normal Finishers do.

The only thing that works everytime for monks are the openers :/
Oh and our 200hp-once-every-5-minute-heal

Way it's set up:
You have several abilitys you can use at any time, for example: Bounless Fist.
These are regular abilities.  However when they critical they may be continued into a Finisher.
Provided you have an Advanced Finisher, you can then continue the combo further.
As far as I know, criticaling on the finisher is not necessary for the advanced finisher, though I may be mistaken.

The old system of Opener -> Bridge -> Finisher was disgarded but re-worked in more sexily.  Basically, when you critical you can start a chain of attacks provided you meet the requirements (Costs and Timers).  Better yet, you can click on which one you want to use on your screen as opposed to needing to set up hotkeys.  On top of that, you can simply hit the 'G' key further the combo (ever since 'F' was changed to assist defensive target).


To learn any of the style-specific skills, you must finish the quest to become a disciple of that style.  Then, you must attain the appopriate level for the skill (which is not determinable at this time).  Finally, you must meditate up to 6 or more Jin, then use Aum of *Style* Mastery for a chance to learn the new abilities.