


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.
