Finishing move question...

[mobrien316]

My monk sat at level 28 for quite a while until I recently TR'd him. I'm a little rusty on the monk stuff, but I seem to recall (and I may be wrong about this) that if I did light-light-light moves, my finishing move button would change to the healing finishing move, and would remain that way unless I hit another monk specialty move (basically anything other than basic attack, cleave, great cleave, etc...)

Now it seems that if I prep a finishing move, it disappears if I do anything at all, like pick up a collectible, open a door or a chest, drink a pot, etc..

Is that how it always was and I'm just misremembering? I thought you could prep a finishing move and hold onto it as long as you didn't do any other specialty moves.


Any help would be appreciated.

[Toro12]

My monk sat at level 28 for quite a while until I recently TR'd him. I'm a little rusty on the monk stuff, but I seem to recall (and I may be wrong about this) that if I did light-light-light moves, my finishing move button would change to the healing finishing move, and would remain that way unless I hit another monk specialty move (basically anything other than basic attack, cleave, great cleave, etc...)

Now it seems that if I prep a finishing move, it disappears if I do anything at all, like pick up a collectible, open a door or a chest, drink a pot, etc..

Is that how it always was and I'm just misremembering? I thought you could prep a finishing move and hold onto it as long as you didn't do any other specialty moves.


Any help would be appreciated.

Doing anything breaks your chain , always has.
Only very few things you can do that don't break the chain , stunning fist, stunning blow , trip, wholeness f body and meditate are about the only things I can think of. Probably the cleaves but never tried them on my monk.

Everything else breaks the chain , opening a door , grabbing a ledge , switching any gear including hand wraps , drinking potions and pretty much everything else you can do in game.

[TeacherSyn]

You may also switch Monk stances without losing a charged finisher.

For some greater detail to help you here, including a comprehensive list of what breaks a finisher, see this chapter in my Monk guide.

[LordKalkin]

When I first started playing monks I used this as a guide.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...ghlight=Metaru

Note the hot bar setup.
With all the buttons on one bar for attack I found it easy to monitor active finishing moves.

[Uska]

Yeah your misremembering