For example, having an ion cell in your sword is not very useful against non-droids.Īlso, you may have found a better sword in the loot than the trusty vibro from Peragus. You have been fighting only droids, droids, and droids for quite a while, so if the sword is still configured for droid combat you may switch upgrades. Strengthening underlays and heavy bonding plates could be useful. There is a workbench somewhere in the complex and a lab bench, too, so you could level up Bao-Dur and Kreia and then produce some nice items to prep the Exile for the fight. The Handmaidens should be one level higher than your character and they have pretty good defense, so watch your stats and the combat feedback to see whether it makes sense to dual-wield or if you are better off wielding only a single sword. Watch your portrait, so that you can re-cast Improved Force Barrier if it runs out also, if your health gets too low then you may have to cast Heal. Use Master Flurry or whatever your best combat feat is. Then cast Improved Force Barrier to take the sting out of the Handmaidens' attacks, and start slashing away.

One thing that works well for melee fighters is this: when the fight starts (Handmaidens are still 'green') cast Knight Speed, then equip your best piece of armour and your best sword. The Push/Whirlwind trick that Hunter_of_Chaos mentioned works well if you have enough WIS/CHA to make the power 'stick', but for a melee-oriented character the most likely outcome is that none of the Handmaidens is affected and you just lose a combat round for nothing at all.

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