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I had plenty of people telling me killing minions are a pain and a waste of time, but the truth is, it is not that hard! All you need to do is to come a good strategy on blading and killing on one hit. If you have these strategies, you could probably end them in three or four rounds! One tip though, do not ever depend on critical for killing minons. It is more slow as you depends on it and most of the time you won't critical. Have your damage boost gear rather than critical. ALthough i rather y0u to get waterworks gear for the resist :P. Sky Iron Hasta is a good choice over critical wands too. If the minions are you own school, tough luck, use prisms. I know it will be slower but they don't usually do shields anymore in celestia above. Plus, you get mass in avalon so it should be not a problem. Get your Own school blades by amulets (you can get that in zafaria) and try and get a pet that gives you blades. Do this and you can kill minions like ABC. Stack up your blades and you will be fine :). Now for some tips for your own schools (NOTE: lvl 60 and above and with damage boost up to 55% gear)
ICE: Ice blade, Amulet blade, pet blade and frost giant. Elemental if minions have more health. It should let you reach about 3000 hp.
FIRE:Fire blade, Amulet blade, pet blade and fire dragon. Should be fine!
Storm:Storm Blade, Amulet Blade, Storm lord. Hit as fast as you can because you are pretty vulnerable.
Balance: Balance blade, amulet blade, pet blade and ra. depending on health do bladestorm if neccsary.
Death: Death blade, Amulet blade, pet blade, scarecrow.
Myth: Myth blade, Amulet blade, pet blade then earthquake. you might need to frog after earthquake depending on health.
Life: Life blade, Amulet blade, pet blade, then forest lord. If that didn't work do the pattern again.

Try not to heal in minions fights, but always pack one or two just in case. Teaming up with friends would be a bit faster but let one guy hit, not both hit. Example, a storm and balance is in a fight. Balance blade storm and storm can hit in two rounds if he blades himself in the first round. See? it is a lot faster. In further worlds and lvls, you'll get new spells that can boost you killing minions faster. Like the aura spell virulence for death (azteca, Three Points). So the higher lvl you gonna get, the more boost for higher minions in later worlds. Also try and limit your spells in your deck. You can find spells much easier. Just have two of your own school blades, Elemental or spirit blades,three of Sixth or seventh or eighth pips Aoe spells depending on your school, and one satyr tc and a three colossal (if you haven't train colossal yet, you must train it!). Also have some aura spells like amplify in sidedeck if you haven't learnt that spell yet. Remember to put prisms too on your owns school minions. that could be annoying. And also put Amulet blades and pet blades :). Most important of all is blade up.

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