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The Sims 2: Apartment Life, which is included in the Legacy Edition, brings a little magic to your Sims’ lives with witchcraft, potions, and secret lairs. You might want to make your Sim the next Wicked Witch of the West and start terrorising Belladonna Cove with malicious magic and sinister spellcraft.
Or, maybe a life of benevolence is on the cards throughout your pursuit of pure potions, practical magic, or friendly familiars. No matter the kind of witch or warlock your Sim decides to be, there’s a lot to know about The Sims 2’s complex magic system.
How Do Sims Become Witches Or Warlocks?
Becoming a witch or warlock boils down toa few simple steps:
Sims must be at least Teens to be able to become a witch or warlock.
The witch will be immediately obvious: theywear a pointed witches’ hatand a matching outfit. Thewicked witch is greenand wears black clothes, while thegood witch’s outfit is whiteand blue. They’ll sometimes have their familiar with them, too.
Once you’ve befriended them, you canask them about their craft. If you’vebefriended the good witch, you canask them to Teach Me The Ways Of The Lightwith a social interaction. Thebad witch offers the Teach Me The Path Of Darknessinteractioninstead.
If you successfullyuse this interaction, the witch will cast a spell on you, imbuing you with new magical powers. A short animation will play whileyour Sim receives their new robes, a cauldron, and a spellbook, while a pop-up notification appears in the top-right corner.
Now that you’re magical, you’re able to purchase a new spellbook or cauldron from your witch friends. A cauldron costs 870 Simoleons, while a spellbook will set you back 630 Simoleons.
Where To Find Grand High Witches
Witchesappear on community lotsnear the public telephone. They fly in on a broomstick. Usually, you’llonly be able to find one at a time, meaning there’ll be either a good or evil witch there.
Already met a High Witch before? You could just call her up for a chat on the phone to save trying to find her again.
Sometimesyou might have to go to a few different lotsto find a witch. However, if they don’t show up in the first few minutes of you being there, they’re probably not going to show up at all, so you can be ready tomove to a new location fairly quicklyafter arriving.
Good witches are a little more likely to show up during the day while evil witches seem to prefer to skulk around at night.
What Is The Difference Between Magic Alignments?
Witches and warlocks can bealigned with good or evil. Which side they start off aligned to depends onwhich witch gave them their powers, but theycan change alignmentthrough their actions. For example, a good witch casting evil spells will slowly turn her evil.
Witches belonging to different alignments also haveaccess to different spellsand abilities, as well ashaving different outfitsand secret hangouts. You canalter your alignment by studying the opposite one at the spellbookand practicing opposing magic.
Your Sim may alsohave a neutral alignment, where they play a little for both teams. This alignment is fairly different from the good and evil alignments becausethere isn’t a neutral High Witchor secret lot. You can get this bystudying the spellbook.
you may check your Sim’s alignment by using the Check Abilities interaction on a spellbook. This will also show you a list of spells and reagents your Sim can make, alongside their current Witch skill level.
Witch And Warlock Outfits, Explained
Your supernatural Sim’srobes or dress reflect which type of witchcraft they mostly align with. Although there are two main alignments - good and evil - there is a four-point scale between them:
Infallibly good
White and blue robes/dress and hat; gold and blue aura.
Neutral good
Brown clothing and hat with gold trims.
Slightly evil
Black and purple robes or dress and hat with silver accents.
Atrociously evil
The same outfit as slightly evil, but with green skin.
YourSim’s everyday outfitwill be overridden by their witch clothes until they become human again.
How To Go To The Secret Magic Lots
Each alignment has its own magical fortress, which is kind of like an impressive, mystical clubhouse. Witches aligned withevil have the Fortress of Darkness, while those aligned withgood magic have the Palace of Neverending Light.
Your Sim willautomatically have access to either location, regardless of their alignment. The fortresses include space touse magical equipment, meet other witches, and buy reagents, as well as spaces to tend to their needs.
Witches and warlocks can visit the Fortress of Darkness or Palace of Neverending Light the same way they would visit another lot:by walking, using transportation, or flying on their new broomsticks. The lots appear in their own neighbourhood in the left column titled Magical World.
Only witches and warlocks can initiate trips to secret magical lots but they can bring along plus ones that are humans orother occults.
How To Use Your Broomstick
Witches and warlocks all receive one totallyfree method of transportation: broomsticks. This functions about the same as a car, helicopter, or taxi, but it has its own cute animation.Click on your Sim and select Fly To.
From here, you’ll follow the same steps you wouldwhen you were travellingin any other way. Youselect a neighbourhoodfrom a column on the left,then the specific lotyou want to visit on the right, andclick the tickat the bottom of the box.
Surprisingly, you can still choose to bring guests along when you fly on the broomstick. There must be a lot of room on there.
How To Stop Being A Witch Or Warlock
If you don’t want to be a part of the craft anymore, thenreverting to your mortal form is actually pretty easy.You just need todrink a Witchbegone-E potion,and you’ll be back to your un-magical ways before you know it.
How To Buy A Witchbegone-E Potion
You canbuy a Witchbegone-E potion directly from a Head Witchof either alignment. Interact with the witch and look out for theBuy Potion menu. Select the menu, thenchoose Witchbegone-E.
The potion will beput in your Sim’s inventory, which is in the rewards panel.Take the potion and place itsomewhere on a lot they own, theninteract with the potion to drink it. Give it a few seconds and your Sim will be human again.
The potion will cost you 60 Simoleons, but you’re able to bulk buy them.
How To Make The Witchbegone-E Potion
You cancraft your own Witchbegone-E potiononce you’veearned your first witch skill point. You earn witch skill points by engaging with your magic and studying your spellbook.
With your first skill point,go to your cauldron and select Make Witchbegone-E.
When your Sim has finished brewing their potion, it willgo straight to their inventory- the same as when they buy it from another witch.Drink itand they’ll go straight back to normal.
This method takes longer than buying it from a witch (presuming you can find a witch easily) but it saves you Simoleons as it’s totally free.
