A questions about Mystic Wisdom

[Habar414]

So I'm wondering what exactly can you use the sensei's "Mystic Wisdom" ability with.

Mystic Wisdom:

At 6th level, a sensei may use his advice ability when spending points from his ki pool to activate a class ability (using the normal actions required for each) in order to have that ability affect one ally within 30 feet rather than the sensei himself. At 12th level, a sensei may affect all allies within 30 feet rather than himself (spending points from his ki pool only once, not once for each target).

At 12th level, a sensei may instead spend 1 point from his ki pool (as a swift action) while using advice to provide a single ally within 30 feet with evasion, fast movement, high jump, purity of body, or slow fall. At 18th level, a sensei may spend 2 points to grant one of the abilities listed above to all allies within 30 feet, or diamond body, diamond soul, or improved evasion to a single ally within 30 feet. These abilities function at the sensei’s level and last 1 round.

This ability replaces the bonus feats at 6th, 12th, and 18th level.

So as far as I can tell you can have any class ability that you spend ki to use and would normally affect you affect one ally (at lvl 6+) or all allies in 30ft (at lvl 12+)

What about spell like abilities attainable through Qinggong Monk?
I get that it would mean you could cast Barkskin or other buffing spells on allies instead of you, but what about more offensive spells such as scorching ray or hydraulic push? Hydraulic push I can understand not working because as part of the spell you target and cast the spell at an enemy, while with scorching ray the spell's affect creates rays and then after the spell is cast you choose the targets of the rays, (being a ranged touch spell & all)

I'm also confused about where it says "may use his advice ability"
do you actually use a round of the advice ability or was this just added for flavor?

side note, affect/effect....when is which used @o@?

[Habar414]

Bump :3 tending to a few of my posts here, thought I'd try to get an answer for this too

[Michael Sayre]

I feel like there was another thread where this got answered, but I'm having trouble finding it.
As I recall, Mystic Wisdom would work for buffs granted by the Qinggong archetype, but not a spell like Scorching Ray, since it is an instantaneous effect. They would have to be capable of delivering it at the time you used the ability, and there's just no way to make that work. You also aren't really "having that ability affect one ally within 30 feet" unless you're targeting them with the spell, since the spells "effect" is dealing damage.

[Habar414]

Ah, alrighty, drat, so no army of woodland critters shooting red lasers all over the battlefield. Ho hum xD. Thanks mate!