Lvl 50 monk skills
All skills are with 500 str/400 dex/100vit/66 int/66 wis

Jin attacks
Ashen Hand VII - 2.5 * weapon dmg + 250

Endurance attacks
Boundless fist Vii - Melee dmg +175
Crescent Kick VI - 200 dmg
Goading Slap IV - 200 dmg + 1600 hate toward defensive target
nerver strike - 30 sec mez
Pushing hand - removes any stance from target
Whirling Storm V - melee + 143

Aums
Aum Kor
Aum Liat
Aum Ti

Finishers
*Divine Typhoon 4 - Melee + 500 (ae)
*Divine Avalanche 3 - Melee + 550 (ae)
**Flying Kick 5 - Melee + 550
**Kick to the heavens3 - 600 dmg
***Three Finger strike 666
***Hamer Fist - 850
***Palm Explodes the heart - 3.5k
****Thousand fist 4- (Melee +170 )*3
**** Thunder Fist 3 - (melee +155)*3

Defensive
Quivering Palm V - On a parry - 1.25 * weapon dmg + 182, lowers dmg of target by 50% for 6 sec
Stinging backfist Vi - 2* ( weapon dmg + 200)

Rescues
Waning palm 4 - Melee + 162 , lowers agro of defensive target


Buffs
Feign Death 3- 2 sec feign death
Ignore Pain V - 1500 pt heal
Iron hand Vi - +91 dmg to every hit
Iron Skin - 70 ac and 50% imunity to stuns and knockdown for 10 second (10 min reuse)
Jin surge V - 3.5 * the dmg (roughly)
Meditation - 1 jin per 5 sec
Reed in the wind III - 50% evasion bonus for 15 seconds
Secret of Celerity - Double dmg special attacks for 20 seconds
Secret of Flame VI - 185 dmg per hit and a chance to proc for 289 dmg / 4 sec
Secret of ice IV - 100(ish) ice damage and chance to proc 4 sec stun
Secret of transcendance - 169 dmg per hit and 5% haste for 60 seconds
Soaring Leep - Super jump
Storm Stride - teleport behind target
Swaying Step IV - 160% dodge for the next incoming hit

******************Dragon******************
Aum of the roaring Dragon - teached dragon techniques
Stances:
Legendary Storm Dragon Stance: +24% dmg, 5% chance to crit, and 10% chance to proc lightning, 10% mitigaiton loss
Dragon Stance: 72 hp regen
Immortal Stone Dragon: 800 mitigation, and 50% rune to fire/ice (working) and 10% slow

Endurance attacks -
Dragon Rakes its claws III - Melee + 300 (ae)
Feet of the fire Dragon 4 - 1k dmg over 16 seconds
Six Dragon strike V - melee + 302

Jin Attacks
Dragon Breath - 1k dmg (ae) - 10 min reuse , 8 jin cost
Cloud Dragon Ruse III - Melee +350, opens finisher, increases crit chance by 30% on next hit
Dragons Rage III - 400 dmg + garunteed crit, 5 min reuse, 4 jin cost

Finishers
Gounging Dragon Claw Ii - Melee +527, increase dmg of next atk by 50%
Sundering Dragon Claw II - 3k dmg over 6 sec
Divine tsunmai - melee + 625 ( ae) - follows divine ae line

Defensive
Dragon Sweeps its tail II - 330 dmg + 3sec stun to all mobs in ae range

Buffs
Sun Dragons Corona 2- 280 sv fire, 50 - 75 pt fire ds
Spirit dragon - invis + levi

******************Harmonious******************
Aum of the Harmonious path

Stances
Harmonious body stance - 1 jin / 10 sec
Immortal Crane - +8% dodge/parry, minus 25% endurance cost (Doesnt stack with aum ti)
Legenday Tiger -  + 30% crit and 40% endurance cost

Endurance attacks
Deadly Adder Hand V - 32 second debuff, then 700 dmg on finish
Eagle Claw 4 - 239 dmg and minus 15% mitigation of target for 25s

Jin Attacks
Tiger Pounces 3- 230 dmg, and garunteed crit
Trapping mantis claw 3 - 360 dmg, and opens finishers, +20% crit on next hit
Withering Palm - 75% weapon dmg +220, -10% target dps, + 10% self dps

Finishers
*Celestial kick of the master ---melee + 635 dmg (description is wrong)
**North wind slaps the limb 2 - melee+530 dmg , reduces target dmg by 150 for 30 sec
**North Wind breaks the tree trunk - melee+500 dmg, target takes 300 dmg every time it attacks for 30 sec

Defensive
Steal the wind 3- deals 615 dmg , decrease target speed by 15%, increase self by 15%

Buffs
Wave hands in the clouds 3 -Counter attack for 290 dmg for 20 sec (you still get hit) 
Diamond body II - +1000 armor class and removes all negative effcts for 2 min.  (30 min reuse)
Find the center- 100% parry and block for 20 sec, 20 min reuse

******************Drunken******************
Aum of the stumbling master
Stances
Drunken Master Stance - 5% chance to dodge, reduces refresh timer by 10%, + hate gain per hit (25%? )
Legendary Drunken Fist: 22% dmg, pary 5%, lower mitigation 5%
Immortal drunken sway: 9% dodge/parry, minor DS


Endurance attacks
Jeering Kick 4 - 230 dmg + forces the target to attack for 2 hits
Staggering punch 5 - 75% weapon dmg +150, staggers target for 8 seconds (adds weakeness)

Jin Attacks
Spining Fist  3 - 5 min reuse, garunted crit, 300 dmg
Lurching Fient 3 - 0 dmg, but increase crit rate of next attack by 30% and always opens finishers

Finishers
**Impossible drunken palm - melee + 530, next hit garuntes crit
**Drunken Arm cyclone - 3x (weapon dmg + 540)
***Legendary Fists -- 3x melee +150 , 3rd hit to thousand fist line
***Fist of Transcendence - 3x melee +177, 4th hit to thousand fist

Defensive
Clumsy Whirl 3 - Melee + 500

Buffs
Fool Hardy swagger 3 - Taunts all mobs around you to attack for 5 turns
Slap Hands - 30 sec counter attack buff, you count all incoming melee for weapon dmg (you still take dmg)
Maggnifecent drunken stagger- 15 second avoidance buff, 30 min reuse
*Errant strike - () Makes all your hits hit anything that is hitting the defensive target (aka your attacks can hit 4-5 targets if they are all on the defensive target) -- currently bugged? doesnt give an icon to let you know its still on you

Conclusions

Stances
Offense stance - In terms of raw dps , Dragon> Harmonious>drunken.    However drunken dps stance is very very close to the dragon.   Overall, all 3 are pretty close.
Defensive stance - Tough call, id probably say Harmoius and Drunken are close, with harmonious taking the lead with its 25% reduction in end cost, this allows you to use aum kor for maximum efficentcy.  Dragon is the worst, the rune is nice now that it works however the set mitigation it adds is small. 
Medium - Drunken wins hands down, the refresh rate stacks with aum kor for 35% reduction takin 30 min spells down to <20 min, and 5 min spells to less then 3.5 min.  The jin gain and hp regens are way to small to be useful. 

Endurance attacks
Dragon have 3 attacks, the other 2 only have 2.  However, the third attack is a really expensive endurance ae.   
The second endurance attack is definatly the most dmg by dragon (feet of fire drag) , the others get a mitigation debuff and a taunt.
The third attack is again toped by the dragons, the other 2 get a 32 sec debuff, and a weak attack that can be exploited with boundless fist.

Thoughts: The dragon does have 3 end attacks AND all 3 attacks are easily the top dmg of the 3 classes.  However Harmonious and drunken get MUCh more utility from taunts, debuffs.

Jin Attacks
All 3 get a 5 min attack with a garunteed crit, all do really small dmg.  Overall this attack is pretty worthless.
All 3 get a 2 min attack which opens a finisher with increased crit %.  The drunk has no damage, and the dragons has amazing dmg.  The extra dmg from melee dmg to the dragons attack makes it a really decent regular attack.
The third attack varys, with dragons getting a horrible 1k ae on a 10 min timer, and the harmonious monk getting probably the best attack in the game.  +10% dps which lasts for 1 min!  And again the drunken gets no 3rd attack.

Finishers
Each class gets a 2 part finisher unique to their style. 
Supprisingly, the drunken version is the most damage. 

Then each class also gets a continuation of a basic monk finisher.  Hands down drunken AGAIN gets the best dmg with TWO continuations to thousand fist.  Harmonoius is weak sause, but reusable every 2 seconds (600 dmg) where as the dragons is an ae.

Defensive finishers
Again, the drunken monk has the highest dmg finisher, single target big dmg. 

Buffs
Dragons get 2 buffs, invis and a damage shield.  While the ds is nice and provides excellent fire save.  The invis is way over rated.  you are much better using invis totems. 
Both drunken and harmonious get an additional avoidance buff.
And finaly drunken get the most total buffs with thier last being probably the best.  It makes all attacks hit all mobs in range IF they are on the defensive target.   This skill with secret of celerity basicly makes it so u can ae thousand fists with double dmg.  Feign ---> cast both buffs ---> use the 2 min finisher opener ---> use thousand fist --->thunder fist --> legendary fist-----> fist of transcendence for about 30k minimum dmg.

Overall (these are my opinions)
The dragons get the highest dmg attacks hands down, as well as the best dps stance.  However as far as finishers go drunken wins hands down.  At 50 a drunken can let lose thousand fists every 38 seconds.   Not to mention the unique fnisher for drunk is the most dps, as well as their defensive finisher being the best dps.




Dragon - Larget dps regular attacks, high dps stance, low utility and buffs, lots of aes, sadly dragon breath is worthless and the 1 min timer on a 300 dmg ae stun is weak also.
Stances - Offensive stance is definitely the highest dps of the stances, however the mitigation penalty up till 30 is way to harsh.  Dragon regen is worthless, but harmonious's intermediate stance is worthless too.  Defensive stance is spot on, exactly what id expect from a dps monk.
Feet of the fire dragon - With jin strike this attack is amazing and does a ton of dmg. 
Six dragon strike - with boundless fist this does decent damage for sure
Dragon rakes its claws - nice ae dmg, but the endurance cost is a bit to high for me, i can spam whirling storm non stop where as this one i can do a few then need to wait.
Cloud Dragon Ruse - nice skill, decent dmg, but i mainly use it when i NEED to open a crit immediatly, ala i used secret of celerity and need to get a thousand fist off. and being as all 3 styles get the same skill its a moot point that this one does more dmg, since i save it for secret of celerity (10-15 min inbetween use)
Dragon Rage - Another skill i never use, 300 dmg, IF it hits it crits, and it costs a ton of jin. Moot point that it does the most dmg of the 3 styles simply because ive used it 1 time in 20 levels 
Dragon breath - I NEVER USE IT, its 8 jin for an ae attack that does 1k dmg with a 10 min reuse

gouging/sundering dragon -The original finisher is nice, but drunkes does more dmg and garuntees the next hit wil crit, this one just makes it do 50% more dmg, 50% more dmg on a 3k dot isnt bad dont get my wrong, and if it crits it does more dmg. 
divine tsunami - meh its nice dmg, its a decent reuse timer, but i find i die a ton when i ae
Dragon sweeps its tail - low dmg, short duration stun, mostly worthless being as its never up when u need to interupt a caster.

Can exploit  1 attack.  Boundless fist ---> dragon strike


 
Harmonious - moderate dmg attack, weakest finisher, lots of debuffs, best self buff (+10% dmg)
The combo that both end attacks debuff the target, as well does the defensive buff makes this class optimal for soloing. 
Has no exploits in can use. ALA it cant add a weakness then exploit it.

Celestial Kick of the master is actually Melee + 600, also its buged atm and it "says" it hits you as well.   
The offensive stance has a harsh endurance penalty, however soloing lvl 40 - 4 dots was easy and i never ran out of endurance with my end regen at 6.  Not as high dmg hits as dragon, but crited a ton more (as you should)

Also 3 defensive buffs is nice, counter is bleh since you still get hit, but the other 2 are decent, and good life savers.  Deadly adder and eagle claw are rediculously powerful when combined with steal the wind and whitering palm.  4 debuffs you can put on the mob 2 of which buff you up as well.   

Overall i like harmonious, the high crit rate is nice, the clestial kick is nice since its instant reuse.  3 def bufs, 4 attacks that make you better and the mob weaker,  This style kills a lot slower then dragon for sure, but it is A TON easier to kill. 


Drunken - lowest dmg regular attacks, best finishers, lowest dps offensive stance (still not bad though 22% dmg vs 24)  with the most utility, has taunts and ae's and counters that work like big dmg shields.

Can exploit 2 attacks

Boundless fist --> staggering punch ---> crescent kick   
Makes staggering and crescent do about twice the damage. 

Been a while since something worth a sticky rolled along.

Very nice write up

~QTM

Does Whirling Storm decrease in endurance cost at 50? Cause from where I'm standing, its Endurance cost is identical to that of Dragon Rakes its Claw.

1) yes the middle stance for drunken adds agro, doesnt say how much though.  Atm i prefer offensive stance for the 22% dmg, aum kor for refresh haste, and then just whailing with thousand fist x4
2) no whirling storm never decreases in end cost and it is always less then dragon rakes it claws.  (wanna say its 30 vs 38) but i cant be sure since im drunken now

3) any drunkens out there give me some tips on errant stirke?  does it not give an icon when cast, can the defensive target not be yourself?  ive used it twice while tanking 3-4 mobs at once expecting for it to ae them but i didnt even get a buff icon.

4) rare bug and i havent been able to reproduce it yet, but i some how got slap hands to counter myself and it went into a vicious cycle of me countering me, which led to me countering me, which ultimately led to me dieing due to me countering myself 20+ times in under a second.  "combat log said you counter fujitsu's  attack, you hit fujitsu for 340" "fujitsu hits you for 340 but you counter his attack and hit for 340" x20..... anyone else ever get that

just an FYI, crane does stack with aum ti.  Its stacked for as long as I have both.  Until I got aum kor I was almost always in aum ti and crane for the super reduced endurance.

There have been issues in the past with Aum Ti  conflicting with crane stance. it was sent to coding a while ago. It is entrirely possible that it got ninja patched. The same situation existed with Aum Kor and  Drunken Mastery Stance. I'll mess around when I get home to double check.

Its easy enough to check these out.

If you can beat me to it, by all means post the results.

~QTM

I double checked tonight.  It appears that eternal crane does not stack though all the previous crane forms do in fact stack.  So it is infact a bug with eternal crane stance.