The Basics of Mafia Wars Job Mastery

When leveling up rapidly is your primary objective, concentrating on Mafia Wars jobs is an safe, solid strategy. Fighting and robbing will get you leveling fast, too, but then you will have to handle the consequences which can get extremely personal and a bit ugly. Fighting and robbing have the funny tendency to make your target p.o.’ed (understatement) and retaliatory.

Leveling juice (aka, experience points!) isn’t the only reward jobs deliver. You'll earn cash and loot that will help you balance your Mafia Wars profile, too. Job loot can assist you in equipping your mafia. It could be a weapon, armor, or a vehicle in the loot drop. Completing collections is done through jobs, too, because loot drops will sometimes have special items. Consider the money a way to acquire yet another Mafia Mike's so that you can upkeep all that new equipment, and jobs will have positioned you perfectly to dominate Mafia Wars.

Mastering a job and a tier also gets you those skill points. Skill points are the life blood of your character development. Energy is the category to put those points in if you want to do the maximum number of jobs and level that way. If leveling isn’t your main priority, spreading those skill points into attack and defense and stamina is another possibility.

When you began level one in Mafia Wars – immediately after that gravy demo job with the 2.0 job ratio! - you found yourself facing the Street Thug job tier. Specific levels are associated with certain job tiers. At level one through four, Street Thug is the associated tier. Boss tier - the top tier in the New York City Mafia Wars venue - is intended for players at level one hundred or higher. The job roster of Street Thug looks like this (job ratio in parenthesis): Mugging (1); Corner Store Hold-Up (1); Warehouse Robbery (1); Auto Theft (1.14); Beat Up Rival Gangster (1); Rob A Pimp (1); Collect On A Loan (1).

As a raw thug, these are the jobs you’ll see 1st. You are working this tier until you level up past 4. You can access any job tier you like in Mafia Wars once you have the requisite level, but you can't earn the higher levels of mastery (and you will want to!) until you've earned the 2nd and 3rd levels of mastery for the preceding tiers. The tiers are really designed to go with your level. Tiers are composed of more complicated and demanding jobs as you go up.

Going back to our example, you’ll want to master every job in the Street Thug tier. Pick a job - Auto Theft has the best Mafia Wars jobs ratio! You'll do the Auto Theft job many times to master it. You'll notice a blue bar that shows how you're doing in mastering the job. It will gradually fill as you repeat Auto Theft until it is 100% blue and you've finished mastery of that job. You should get your skill point for mastering Auto Theft for the 1x.

Master each job in the tier, and you’ll have completed the 1x mastery. You earn skill point for the tier mastery and a title to put with your Mafia Wars name. You are now “Street Thug YourMWName.”

Just because you’ve mastered a tier, you ought to continue to work those jobs. There are some jobs that have very delicious loot drops, ratios, and money. So you'll want to revisit those jobs even after you've leveled up out of the tier and/or mastered it. Sure, Street Thug tier isn’t riddled with prime loot – unless you need that .22 pistol, the 9mm semi-automatic, or a Diamond card!

It’s not pointless to master every job in Street Thug for a 2nd time. The reward for your mastery is 8 additional skill points to allocate, a “Skilled Street Thug” title, and a 5% increase in the loot drop for jobs in the thug tier.

The 3rd time through mastery of Street Thug and you become “Master Street Thug,” with even more skill points. You'll also receive ten percent extra loot on jobs you work in the Street thug tier. And the real icing – you earn 5% experience bonus for any Street Thug job you do after mastery.

Getting all three times through the particular tier mastery also earns you a 1 time bonus item. In Street Thug tier, you get a Pistol Bayonet that increases the injury you dish out in a Mafia Wars fight by 4%. You’ll discover that the mastery bonus items are some of the sweetest items you can earn in Mafia Wars.

Final thought: Doing every NYC job to the third achievement of mastery will earn you 219 skill points by the time you finish Boss in Mafia Wars! Very appealing!

Mafia Wars Bodyguards and Bullies

What makes Mafia Wars fun is the criminal prestige that our daily lives are seriously lacking. One of the coolest – Mafia Wars bodyguards! Absolutely, they are powerful defense, but you can find better than DEF 25. What’s the appeal of bodyguards?

Regardless of mobster prestige, bodyguards have the real effect of keeping you from getting beat down on the fightlist all the time. And since there is so much “whipping boy” strategy in Mafia Wars guides, it’s no surprise that noobs who are naturally in weaker position are looking for Mafia Wars bodyguards.

Are you seeking Mafia Wars bodyguards? Look for them in the Protect Your City from a Rival family job in the Hitman tier. Having solid bodyguard defense as early as level eighteen is one great thing about this particular defensive equipment. (If you’re already visiting Cuba, you can get a Guerilla Squad with even greater defense than bodyguards in El Padrino tier – Storm the Presidential Palace.)

The Hitman job that could yield you those bodyguards is a powerful job for leveling, too. Use up thirty-one energy and get out 58 experience. That’s a 1.87 ratio, which I like strategy-wise for leveling up more rapidly. It’s a smart energy investment and yields the bodyguards, arguably the top defensive equipment available to lower level players from job loot. If you are attacked by a generally equal player, you will win fights due to bodyguards. It’s smart to get bodyguards for as many of your crew as you can, since bodyguards are the best defense available to you at the beginner levels.

Maybe you have a more complex challenge than a few Mafia Wars bodyguards can remedy. If your attacker has you outmanned, outgunned, and outclassed, bodyguards won’t stop your losses – although they will increase your percentage of wins! It’s an absolute drag to be someone’s Mafia Wars whipping boy.

You may have to tighten up your fighting strategy for Mafia Wars:

• Have you neglected your personal stats, particularly defense?
• Are you holding off on adding mafia members ‘when you have time’?
• Have you ignored mafia equipment?

If your fight strategy is lame, you’ll have to remedy that if you want to stop the torment. When you’ve acquired a Mafia Wars tormentor, you won’t be able to always put all your skill points to energy; you’ll want to deposit some into defense. Attackers also aim at players with a tiny mafia because they are easier to beat. You’ll have to build some crew size. Don’t overlook that every member of your crew has to have all three pieces of Mafia Wars equipment – weapon, armor, and vehicle. If you’re looking to discourage a persistent bully, get the best defensive equipment you can locate.

Good luck and go find some Mafia Wars bodyguards!