Dueling Awesomeness

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

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.

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

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Expeliarmus!

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.

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.

"Zeldaboy180;c-17236308" 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.

"MasonGamer;c-17236464" 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.

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.

"invisiblgirl;c-17255832" 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*