Ring of Ki Mastery.

[Zuloph]

Having some issues on rulings with the Ring of Ki Mastery. The issue is popping up with the Qinggong Monk. The Qinggong monk has the ability "Ki Powers" but the wording at the end of the Ring of Ki Mastery

As long as there are at least 2 ki points stored in the ring, the
wearer reduces the number of ki points needed to use a ninja
trick or ki ability by 1 (minimum 1 ki point).

Now at the start of the Qinggong monk's Ki Powers entry it says

Ki powers are abilities that draw on the power of a monk’s
ki.

but the ability is still called "Ki Powers" and not "Ki Abilities" so would the ring affect the Qinggong Monk's Ki Powers? Something here is worded poorly and the Ultimate Equipment where this item is located has yet to get a second printing where as Ultimate Magic has, though before the item was created. Having some clarification on this would be nice.

[Kazaan]

None of the other Monk abilities are explicitly called out as "ki abilities" either. This is a pedantic matter, not a rules matter. Ki Powers and Ki Abilities are synonymous.

[Zuloph]

But it is a rules matter is the thing because the Qiggong monk says some of the monk's abilities are treated as Ki Powers (you can pick some up as Ki Powers is what this means) which would imply they are Ki Abilities to start with, also all of the monks abilities are either SU or EX too. It's actually something really interesting that having a developer clarify would be handy for because some wordings, or lack there of since the additional books became available, need a more in depth explanation. It becomes a GM's discretion thing right now but having a clearer explanation would help a lot because if you look at the Ring of Ki Master with the Quiggong Monk it starts getting more powerful, then you pair that with the Sensei where you can do it to everyone (ie. Restoration your entire party for free at 12th level because Sp have no components)

[Kazaan]

There are plenty of actual discrepancies, contradictions, ambiguities, and other such issues that legitimately require developer attention, such that they really don't need to be wasting time on mundane issues of imaginary ambiguity like this one. Ki "ability" and Ki "power" are synonymous. Any GM who claims otherwise and takes issue with it is not a GM you want to have running (read: ruining) the game you're devoting your time to. A Ki Ability is any ability that uses Ki. Full_Stop. This "issue" is thrown on the same heap that one would throw the "the rules don't explicitly state you can't act while dead" issue.

[Dabbler]

As Kazaan says, the intent is pretty clear. It's not like there are books full of stuff you can do with ki.