Dueling Awesomeness

CK213

[This was posted before the game launched]
I just learned that sims can duel for 5 different outcomes.
My sims dueled in TS3 mainly for entertainment value, seeing all the effects.
I will be having my sims duel a lot more in Realm of Magic.



I will certainly have a trophy space for all the artifacts I have won off other sims.
Getting ingredients and knowledge will be helpful and it will be nice to have duels different from you friends or nemesis.

fullspiral

I really do love those options! And the fact that fail rate pertains to the sims levels.

nerdfashion

I know! It's going to be so much fun.

SilentKitty

I am so so excited for the dueling!!

My first spellcaster will just brew potions, starting the legacy of slowly but I will have to have one side-sim that duels.

Zeldaboy180

I am kind of sad that I can't lose anything from it though. I want there to be a risk. Maybe with mods?

WolfNate

Expeliarmus!

MasonGamer

Aw, I just realized magic dueling, it has different animations, but it’s not like Sims will throw a variety of spells back and forth.
Like Fire, Frost, or Lightning, I was hoping magic fights sims would exhaust all the spells they know, not just clash their power together and see who’s stronger.

Like my sim would usually come at another spell caster with a lot of fire and light based magic. While the other may come at him with a lot of lightning and Dark based magic. Also they didn’t use the Season’s snow ball fight tactic, to move around while casting spells.

For me, I would have my characters have stand offs in the middle of a Town Square, the street or the woods, or in Alley ways.
someone would have to throw the first punch and conjure the first spell, usually the villain or the antagonist does Sometimes it's the protagonist, my simself is very liberal with his powers now. If it's my simself he's going to conjure a fireball in his hand and throw it at his target. Usually cast a protection spell or disappear in a puff of smoke.
From tumbling out of the way and unleashing their next attack, To using the disappearing spell to dodge an attack. until we get to the climax of the fight. And my fights are more like battles in war. They can last hours, if not days. Like I'll have one character on the run while the other is on roof tops flinging lighting and other spells at the other... I wish Sims could cast spells at each other From different floor heights.

I really hope Someone makes a mod for renaming Spells, I can't with Zip Zap and chillio and all these ridiculous names.
My sim is a sorcerer with dignity, Grace and Class and can't cast a spell called zipzap in heated battles.
Custom spells, Like I'd like my spell caster to use another version of Mist form. like it could be the same animation as the teleportation spell, but I want to see a plume of smoke appear vs a quick ping of light and minimal smoke. and maybe add custom colors to mist form.
But I can't wait for a mod that allows me to Cast a fire ball at sims directly... what I don't get is why the devs thought the fireball had to kill the target. when it could just blast them back a couple of feet and knock the other sim out. casting fire at a sim doesn't necessarily have to kill them.

OEII1001

Meh. Never really liked the dueling stuff, as it's just more typical Harry Potter style wands-are-guns. I'm your typical Vancian -- magic being more difficult and cumbersome to wield, but potentially reality-warpingly powerful.

CK213

Zeldaboy180 wrote: »

I am kind of sad that I can't lose anything from it though. I want there to be a risk. Maybe with mods?

Yes, that would make it more of a challenge.
I do like the new reasons for dueling, but it still could use a little more depth.

Zeldaboy180

MasonGamer wrote: »

Aw, I just realized magic dueling, it has different animations, but it’s not like Sims will throw a variety of spells back and forth.
Like Fire, Frost, or Lightning, I was hoping magic fights sims would exhaust all the spells they know, not just clash their power together and see who’s stronger.

Like my sim would usually come at another spell caster with a lot of fire and light based magic. While the other may come at him with a lot of lightning and Dark based magic. Also they didn’t use the Season’s snow ball fight tactic, to move around while casting spells.

For me, I would have my characters have stand offs in the middle of a Town Square, the street or the woods, or in Alley ways.
someone would have to throw the first punch and conjure the first spell, usually the villain or the antagonist does Sometimes it's the protagonist, my simself is very liberal with his powers now. If it's my simself he's going to conjure a fireball in his hand and throw it at his target. Usually cast a protection spell or disappear in a puff of smoke.
From tumbling out of the way and unleashing their next attack, To using the disappearing spell to dodge an attack. until we get to the climax of the fight. And my fights are more like battles in war. They can last hours, if not days. Like I'll have one character on the run while the other is on roof tops flinging lighting and other spells at the other... I wish Sims could cast spells at each other From different floor heights.

I really hope Someone makes a mod for renaming Spells, I can't with Zip Zap and chillio and all these ridiculous names.
My sim is a sorcerer with dignity, Grace and Class and can't cast a spell called zipzap in heated battles.
Custom spells, Like I'd like my spell caster to use another version of Mist form. like it could be the same animation as the teleportation spell, but I want to see a plume of smoke appear vs a quick ping of light and minimal smoke. and maybe add custom colors to mist form.
But I can't wait for a mod that allows me to Cast a fire ball at sims directly... what I don't get is why the devs thought the fireball had to kill the target. when it could just blast them back a couple of feet and knock the other sim out. casting fire at a sim doesn't necessarily have to kill them.

I'm glad they don't use the seasons style of snow ball fighting. It's horrible... Sims idle in place for way too long.

Sindocat

I played maybe ten different Witches with TS3: Supernatural over the years, and I think I did a duel of magic maybe once. With my Spellcasters, it is much more of a draw, even if one duel is much the same as the next. The different tones are nice. I learned that a Heated Duel by a Teen affects the Manners value from Parenthood, giving a slight decrease (nothing that setting the table or doing the dishes won't fix). Most commonly, I do friendly duels. So far Duel for Ingredients mostly has awarded Simoleons - once over a grand, from Minerva Charm.

invisiblgirl

I'm rather annoyed by the duelling requirement in the nature-based spells aspiration. One of my Sims did the knowledge-potions aspiration and finished it quite quickly. Aga's been stuck on the duelling goal for ages, and now that Helly's doing the spells aspiration, she's stuck, too. They have to win three duels against three different spellcasters to get past it, and it's rather difficult to arrange them with strangers. (It doesn't help that they've both had the 'awkward embrace' curse, so they keep dropping interactions because someone wants to hug them.)

I might cheat past this one.

loubyloulou

invisiblgirl wrote: »

I'm rather annoyed by the duelling requirement in the nature-based spells aspiration. One of my Sims did the knowledge-potions aspiration and finished it quite quickly. Aga's been stuck on the duelling goal for ages, and now that Helly's doing the spells aspiration, she's stuck, too. They have to win three duels against three different spellcasters to get past it, and it's rather difficult to arrange them with strangers. (It doesn't help that they've both had the 'awkward embrace' curse, so they keep dropping interactions because someone wants to hug them.)

I might cheat past this one.

You could make a witchy club and duel the club members? Pity that duelling isn't actually a club activity though *rolls eyes at the Gurus*

invisiblgirl

loubyloulou wrote: »

invisiblgirl wrote: »

I'm rather annoyed by the duelling requirement in the nature-based spells aspiration. One of my Sims did the knowledge-potions aspiration and finished it quite quickly. Aga's been stuck on the duelling goal for ages, and now that Helly's doing the spells aspiration, she's stuck, too. They have to win three duels against three different spellcasters to get past it, and it's rather difficult to arrange them with strangers. (It doesn't help that they've both had the 'awkward embrace' curse, so they keep dropping interactions because someone wants to hug them.)

I might cheat past this one.

You could make a witchy club and duel the club members? Pity that duelling isn't actually a club activity though *rolls eyes at the Gurus*

I don't have GT - the extra texting ('I heard you became friends with so-and-so') would drive me round the bend. One of my Sims did some magic training and got a curse removal potion as a bonus, so only one of them has the curse, now. I'm going to have to find the ingredients for that potion and brew up a few dozen bottles. (They both got cursed by over-duelling in the first place.)

Sindocat

First, cleanse that Curse! It's in your way.

While you don't need to befriend everyone to duel, I do find it handy to introduce my Sim to others in the Realm. Any grade of introduction will work to unlock the Duel interactions. I lost maybe as many as three or four duels, among my three needed wins. But then, I duel frequently for skill gain anyway. This with a Sim who was only an Adept at the time. The only hitch in his Aspiration is building him all the way up to the top rank, the name of which momentarily escapes me.

loubyloulou

invisiblgirl wrote: »

loubyloulou wrote: »

invisiblgirl wrote: »

I'm rather annoyed by the duelling requirement in the nature-based spells aspiration. One of my Sims did the knowledge-potions aspiration and finished it quite quickly. Aga's been stuck on the duelling goal for ages, and now that Helly's doing the spells aspiration, she's stuck, too. They have to win three duels against three different spellcasters to get past it, and it's rather difficult to arrange them with strangers. (It doesn't help that they've both had the 'awkward embrace' curse, so they keep dropping interactions because someone wants to hug them.)

I might cheat past this one.

You could make a witchy club and duel the club members? Pity that duelling isn't actually a club activity though *rolls eyes at the Gurus*

I don't have GT - the extra texting ('I heard you became friends with so-and-so') would drive me round the bend. One of my Sims did some magic training and got a curse removal potion as a bonus, so only one of them has the curse, now. I'm going to have to find the ingredients for that potion and brew up a few dozen bottles. (They both got cursed by over-duelling in the first place.)

Ah, sorry, just assumed

SilentKitty

loubyloulou wrote: »

invisiblgirl wrote: »

I'm rather annoyed by the duelling requirement in the nature-based spells aspiration. One of my Sims did the knowledge-potions aspiration and finished it quite quickly. Aga's been stuck on the duelling goal for ages, and now that Helly's doing the spells aspiration, she's stuck, too. They have to win three duels against three different spellcasters to get past it, and it's rather difficult to arrange them with strangers. (It doesn't help that they've both had the 'awkward embrace' curse, so they keep dropping interactions because someone wants to hug them.)

I might cheat past this one.

You could make a witchy club and duel the club members? Pity that duelling isn't actually a club activity though *rolls eyes at the Gurus*

Yes! Dueling as a club rule would have been great!

Cheekybits

Here's a nice little detail they added with dueling. I'm really into dueling right so much so that my sim has 2 curses and almost died from overload once.

CK213

Cheekybits wrote: »

Here's a nice little detail they added with dueling. I'm really into dueling right so much so that my sim has 2 curses and almost died from overload once.

I'd like to see that.
I have been so busy building, that my sims haven't had enough time to advance their magic.

invisiblgirl

Sindocat wrote: »

First, cleanse that Curse! It's in your way.

While you don't need to befriend everyone to duel, I do find it handy to introduce my Sim to others in the Realm. Any grade of introduction will work to unlock the Duel interactions. I lost maybe as many as three or four duels, among my three needed wins. But then, I duel frequently for skill gain anyway. This with a Sim who was only an Adept at the time. The only hitch in his Aspiration is building him all the way up to the top rank, the name of which momentarily escapes me.

Believe me, I'm trying. Helly can make the potion, but needs citrine in order to do it, and no luck finding that.

It's having to do the introduction, then the duel that's a pain. Either someone else comes over and interrupts in between the introduction and duel, or the other Sim walks off. NPCs have the attention span of a squirrel. I finally cheated past that part of the aspiration.

loubyloulou

invisiblgirl wrote: »

Sindocat wrote: »

First, cleanse that Curse! It's in your way.

While you don't need to befriend everyone to duel, I do find it handy to introduce my Sim to others in the Realm. Any grade of introduction will work to unlock the Duel interactions. I lost maybe as many as three or four duels, among my three needed wins. But then, I duel frequently for skill gain anyway. This with a Sim who was only an Adept at the time. The only hitch in his Aspiration is building him all the way up to the top rank, the name of which momentarily escapes me.

Believe me, I'm trying. Helly can make the potion, but needs citrine in order to do it, and no luck finding that.

It's having to do the introduction, then the duel that's a pain. Either someone else comes over and interrupts in between the introduction and duel, or the other Sim walks off. NPCs have the attention span of a squirrel. I finally cheated past that part of the aspiration.

My Sim managed to buy citrine from the computer? I'm not sure if the option to buy crystals from the computer came in some DLC or a patch though...

Brinn

I've never used dueling in TS3, but in TS4 it makes sense since we can duel for spells or artifacts. Some of my... more aggressive spellcasters learn magic through dueling.

invisiblgirl

loubyloulou wrote: »

invisiblgirl wrote: »

Sindocat wrote: »

First, cleanse that Curse! It's in your way.

While you don't need to befriend everyone to duel, I do find it handy to introduce my Sim to others in the Realm. Any grade of introduction will work to unlock the Duel interactions. I lost maybe as many as three or four duels, among my three needed wins. But then, I duel frequently for skill gain anyway. This with a Sim who was only an Adept at the time. The only hitch in his Aspiration is building him all the way up to the top rank, the name of which momentarily escapes me.

Believe me, I'm trying. Helly can make the potion, but needs citrine in order to do it, and no luck finding that.

It's having to do the introduction, then the duel that's a pain. Either someone else comes over and interrupts in between the introduction and duel, or the other Sim walks off. NPCs have the attention span of a squirrel. I finally cheated past that part of the aspiration.

My Sim managed to buy citrine from the computer? I'm not sure if the option to buy crystals from the computer came in some DLC or a patch though...

Looked for it on the computer, but I wasn't able to buy crystals there - only in the magic realm.

Brinn

invisiblgirl wrote: »

loubyloulou wrote: »

invisiblgirl wrote: »

Sindocat wrote: »

First, cleanse that Curse! It's in your way.

While you don't need to befriend everyone to duel, I do find it handy to introduce my Sim to others in the Realm. Any grade of introduction will work to unlock the Duel interactions. I lost maybe as many as three or four duels, among my three needed wins. But then, I duel frequently for skill gain anyway. This with a Sim who was only an Adept at the time. The only hitch in his Aspiration is building him all the way up to the top rank, the name of which momentarily escapes me.

Believe me, I'm trying. Helly can make the potion, but needs citrine in order to do it, and no luck finding that.

It's having to do the introduction, then the duel that's a pain. Either someone else comes over and interrupts in between the introduction and duel, or the other Sim walks off. NPCs have the attention span of a squirrel. I finally cheated past that part of the aspiration.

My Sim managed to buy citrine from the computer? I'm not sure if the option to buy crystals from the computer came in some DLC or a patch though...

Looked for it on the computer, but I wasn't able to buy crystals there - only in the magic realm.

I believe purchasing crystals through the computer came with Get Famous EP.