Las Vegas Loot Event

The Las Vegas Loot event is now live! Players can find 7 items by doing jobs and fighting. Drops are completely random, so it is the luck of the draw. I must say that Power Attack is pretty convenient early in the morning when less people are playing for finding some of these items.

Thanks to Fruiko for putting up the pic list already, here it is:

Stage Show Tiger (animal; 28 attack, 50 defense)

Casino Guard (armor; 48 attack, 28 defense)

Suit of Suits (armor; 46 attack, 24 defense)

High Roller (vehicle; 46 attack, 23 defense)

Royal Flush (weapon; 48 attack, 25 defense)

Big Blind (weapon; 52 attack, 25 defense)

Viva Las Vegas (weapon; 27 attack, 50 defense)

and the reward for collecting the 7 items:

Jackpot (weapon; 30 attack, 54 defense)

Note that the Jackpot is the reward for collecting the other 7 items. Once you collect the other 7 items (by fighting and doing jobs), you will be awarded the Jackpot.

Between these items and the other new fighting loot items (Rhinoceros, etc), fighting is now a really good way to pick up some loot. I am starting to see a lot of players with 50+ of the special fighting items.

Power Attack - New Feature

If you have done any fighting recently, I am sure you may have noticed a new feature - "Power Attack".

As stated in the picture above, Power Attack literally attacks again 5 times. It expends 5 stamina, and gives you the rewards as if you had attacked 5 times individually:

There is no special function to Power Attack, it just seems like a shortcut to prevent spam clicking and make spending 100s of Stamina points more appealing then spamming attack over and over again.

The downside is that you can not Power Attack iced opponents. Opponents must be alive in order to use Power Attack. If your enemy dies during your Power Attack, all 5 attacks do not go off.

As a result, I'm finding that most of the time my Fight List is dead, so I do not end up Power Attacking anyway! Power Attack is an available option on someone's profile page, but clicking it just ends up issuing a single attack if the opponent is iced.

Global Cup - Mafia Wars Limited Time Job

In celebration of the World Cup, there is a new limited time job in Mafia Wars: the Global Cup. This event is live now and runs through Tuesday night (as 12:00 AM on 6/23 is the first minute of a new day - we will see if they keep that or switch it to ending Wednesday night).

As you can see, there are three primary objectives of the Global Cup event: Master the Global Cup Job, Complete the Global Cup Collection, and complete the Winners are Grinners achievement. Here is how each one breaks down:

Master the Global Cup Job to 100%

This one is fairly straight forward. Players can choose between three jobs:

The Counterfeit the Tickets job costs 30 energy and takes 5 minutes to complete. It provides 1% mastery. In theory, by repeating this job over and over again every 5 minutes, you could master the job entirely in under 9 hours.

Jobs can drop either a collection piece or a loot piece. Here are the drops for each job:

Counterfeit the Tickets - Red Card (vehicle; 35 attack, 30 defense):

Alter the Vegas Odds: The Wall (Armor; 23 attack, 39 defense) - thanks Joe for the pic!

Fix the Global Cup: Striker (animal; 47 attack, 35 defense)

Note that we do not have much time to finish this event - today (Friday), Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. This is just under 5 full days. As a result, you will be hard pressed to finish the job on time by performing the 24 hour job. Most likely, you will need to perform the 5 minute or 8 hour job some in order to finish without spending Reward Points.

For taking the job to 100% mastery, you get the Global Cup (armor; 47 attack, 29 defense).


Complete the Global Cup Collection

There are 7 items in the Global Cup, and it works much like it has in previous limited time jobs.

English Ball - Drops from Jobs
French Ball - Drops from Jobs
Brazilian Ball - Global Cup Job (drops randomly from any of the limited time jobs)
German Ball - Global Cup Job (drops randomly from any of the limited time jobs)
Italian Ball - Drops from winning fights
Argentinean Ball - Drops from winning fights
Spanish Ball - Free gift from Mafia members

The reward for vaulting the collection is Injury Time (weapon; 38 attack, 52 defense).

Note that now you will need to get two different items collection pieces from the limited time job. Prepare to do the 5 minute job often in order to get all the necessary items in time!

Complete the Winners are Grinners Achievement

Mafia Wars 2 Year Anniversary - Double Job Mastery

In all cities (except for London), players will now earn double job mastery now through Sunday, June 13th at 12:01 AM (i.e. Saturday night).

So, really, you only have about a day from now to get your double mastery. As you can see from the picture above, there will be some sort of "fight rewards" offered as part of the 2 year anniversary; we will have to wait until June 16th to see what that is all about.


Personally, if you are like me, job mastery is not stopping you in Bangkok but rather $B itself. I think most players who are almost done all the content would say the same. The cost of Bangkok chapter 7 is intense to say the least!

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As some of you have mentioned in the comments, the Coming Soon section of Mafia Wars has been updated to include Mafia Wars Las Vegas:

Note the key words: "Fighting and battle take the center stage in Sin City."

After reading that I hope this is not referring to the new "Fight Club" but rather actual content that players can progress through using Stamina (bosses, fighting other players, robbing targets, etc).

If that is the case, it would make sense that Episodes 6 and 7 are so lengthy. If players use primarily stamina to progress through Las Vegas, then they will have plenty of energy to slowly chip away at Episodes 6 and 7. Players might be able to concurrently work through Las Vegas and Bangkok at the same time, spending stamina in Las Vegas and energy in Bangkok.

Chapter 2 of Challenge Mission London is now Live

Players can now log into Mafia Wars and play in Chapter 2 of Challenge Mission: London.

It is pretty much exactly like Chapter 1. For adding 2 people to your Mafia, you will pick up a quick, easy 80 British Passports. Your 24 hour collect timer is now also worth 40 passports.

There are 4 jobs available:

Stage a Distraction At A Nightclub: 9% per job attempt, 2/3/4 passport cost (for green, yellow, and red heat meters)

Kidnap A Partying Royal Family Member: 8% per job attempt, 3/4/5 passport cost

Hand Off The Royal To Russian Agents: 5% per job attempt, 4/5/6 passport cost

Steal A Military Police Helicopter: 4% per job attempt, 4/5/6 passport cost

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Chapter 2 of Challenge Mission: London is actually very easy. Since you pick up 80 passports right away from adding two Mafia members, and you can collect 40 passports from your 24 hour timer, you walk right into Chapter 2 with 120 British Passports ready to go. I was able to walk right in with just a few maps sitting around, collect my 120, and get nearly halfway through the third job before running out of maps.

Animals are now live

Players can now use animals in Mafia Wars! They are now finally active and in game for players to use in combat. You will find that animals have boosted many player attack scores over 80,000 with ease and over 90,000 with top gear.

One great thing about this is that all old accounts that are no longer played will be "cleaned up". New players won't have to worry about someone who played for a year but is no longer active in the game as you will have to get animals to remain competitive.

Additionally, to get a jump start, you can actually buy animals now in all 4 cities. Here is what is for sale:

New York

Red Tailed Hawk - 25 attack, 22 defense: $300,000

Cuba

Killer Bee Swarm - 29 attack, 20 defense: C$50,000

Moscow

Musk Ox - 23 attack, 28 defense: R$24,000,000

Bangkok

Inland Taipan - 21 attack, 30 defense - B$250,000

I was able to walk right in and purchase 500 Killer Bee Swarms and 500 Musk Ox. This put my offensive score right around 84,000 points and my defensive score also over 80,000.

Quite an easy way to pick up a ton of offensive strength! Even if you don't have much money in other cities, you should have plenty of New York money which will let you buy the Red Tailed Hawk.

Don't bother with the Inland Taipan - way too much money for a 2 defense upgrade over the Musk Ox. It'd be a much better use of money to pick up the animals (or other items) in the Faction Store in Bangkok.

Thanks to Carl for tipping me off on this.

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Now that animals are in game, here are the best animals you can get:

The Chain Viper (46 attack, 33 defense) is the best animal that drops from jobs (drops in Bangkok Chapter 7). It has a pretty high offensive power and better defense than any animal you can buy in New York, Cuba, or Moscow.

The Forest Scorpion (25 attack, 37 defense; drops in an earlier chapter in Bangkok) is the best defensive animal that drops from jobs. With that said I do not consider this item very valuable. It is only a 4 defense upgrade over the Chain Viper, so make sure you max out on Chain Vipers (and every other piece of High End Loot) before farming these. The Faction Store items are much, much better than this piece.

The Banded Krait (51 attack, 28 defense) can be bought in the faction store for B$540,000. Quite expensive, though it is a 5 attack upgrade over the Chain Viper.

The Xiamen Tiger (26 attack, 52 defense) is the best defensive animal that can be collected with [relative] ease. It can be bought in the faction store for B$550,000. It is a big upgrade over the Forest Scorpion.

With that said, I'm not really too into defense these days. I don't bother riding the hitlist as I am way too high of a level for it to be even remotely time effective. The only thing I use stamina for is robbing, so who cares about it? I'd prefer to buy the Banded Krait with my $B and keep on stacking up my attack.

Challenge Mission: London Chapter 1: Robbing Good

Chapter 1 of Mafia Wars Challenge Mission: London is now online and ready to play. It operates in quite the same way Mafia War Paris did.

There are still 3 Chapters that will be released one week at a time. Each chapter has jobs that require a consumable item (British Passports in the case of London).

However, there are some differences. First off, there are four jobs this time around:

As a result, there is a higher Passport cost associated with Mafia Wars London as compared to Paris.

With that said, players can get extra maps by adding people to their Mafias:

For Chapter 1, you can add 2 people to your Mafia to pick up an extra 30 British Passports for each person. You will be able to get 80 British Passports for Chapter 2 and 100 for Chapter 3.

The heat meter is still here, but it has changed slightly:

If you missed out on Mafia Wars: Paris, the heat meter is a bar that increases every time you do a job. Once it reaches a critical point, the energy cost and British Passport cost of jobs increases.

The Heat Meter is a bit more lenient now. You can do 6 jobs before it moves from Green to Yellow (first increase in British Passport cost) and 5 more before it moves from Yellow to Red (second increase in cost).

You can still do jobs when it is completely red and it will not go up in cost from the third level.

Mafia Wars Challenge Mission London jobs:

Here is the map cost of each job and the mastery earned each time you do the job:

Bribe a Longshoreman: 1/2/3 passport cost (1 for green, 2 for yellow, 3 for red); 9% mastery

Replace Armored Truck Drivers: 2/3/4 passport cost; 8% mastery

Re-Route the Hijacked Trucks: 2/3/4 passport cost; 5% mastery

Deliver Banknotes to A Local Syndicate: 3/4/5 passport cost; 4% mastery

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When compared to Mafia Wars Paris, London requires more British Passports from the start, even with the bonus +60 passports from adding Mafia Members.

Red Mystery Bag - New Rewards

Mystery bags have changed up rewards a bit and there is now a "Red Mystery Bag" available for gifting.

Here are some of the rewards I have gotten:

+100 Energy Points
+1 free reward point
+5 Free Reward Points
+5 Skill Points (best!)
Valentine's Day Heart Tattoo (previously was quite rare)
$B5000
Snow Leopard
Misc. assorted boosts

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For some reason I am unable to receive any more mystery bags and every time I try to accept one it says "you have already accepted the Red Mystery Bag from that person" even though I was only able to open a few bags before getting this message.

BuyEarnPlay - All the info on the 7-Eleven Promotion and a Chance to Win a Giftcard!

As of today, all participating 7-Eleven stores in the United States and Canada should have BuyEarnPlay items in stock that give you the opportunity to earn some solid Mafia Wars rewards.

Here is how it works:

1. Go to 7-11, look for specially marked products. Each product has a sticker with a code on it.

2. With your code in hand, visit http://www.buyearnplay.com.

3. Sign in with your Facebook account and enter your code, and you get the item. It's actually pretty easy.

When you click Play Now, you will be taken to the in game display of whatever item you earned:

Different in-store items yield different in-game items. Here is how it breaks down:

Format:
In-store Item: In-game Item

7-Select Chips: Palermo Prowler (vehicle; 44 attack, 19 defense)

Big-Gulp (make sure to get the Mafia Wars cup): Trio Diva (vehicle; 25 attack, 45 defense)

Mafia Wars Game Card: Combat Helmet (armor; 22 attack, 46 defense)

Slurpee (make sure to get the Mafia Wars cup): Showman (weapon; 46 attack, 27 defense)

Large Coffee: Lone Wolf (weapon; 44 attack, 30 defense)

Chicken Tenders, Pizza Slice, Big Bite, Chicken Wings, Large Pizza, or Breakfast Quesadilla: Sleek Bulletproof Vest (armor; 45 attack, 23 defense)

Go-Go Taquitos, Roller Burritos, Hashbrowns, Potato Wedges: (31 attack, 45 defense)

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After turning in your first item, you get access to the Mafia Wars Corner Store Collection:

The items are very easy to get; as the picture states, the Brain Freeze, Behind Bars, Cup of Coffee, Plastic Lighter, and Scratcher all come from jobs, while the Hotdog and Mafi-O's Snack Pack come from fights. They drop very quickly and are very easy to get.

For vaulting the collection, you will receive a 22LR (weapon; 46 attack, 28 defense):

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As you can see from the picture above, the real prize is the +50 skill points. To get this reward, you must earn 8 points on the BuyEarnPlay site and complete the collection.

You can buy any of the items listed above and then enter the codes on the BuyEarnPlay website to get your +50 skill points reward.

The "five to eight" codes refers to the fact that all the food items mentioned above will earn you one point (need to buy 8 food items), while buying a Mafia Wars game card will earn you 2 points.

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Win a 7-11 Gift Card!

To celebrate this promotion, an advertising agency working with 7-Eleven has given me ten $10 gift cards to give away to readers of the site. You will be able to easily net the 50 skill point reward with $10.

Here are the rules:

- Write in 75 words or less why you deserve a gift card in the comments section of this post. Be creative. There are 10 cards to go around!

- Make sure you include your first name, last initial, and an e-mail address so I can let you know if you won. You should probably break down your e-mail address so that it looks like mafiawarsguide at gmail.com to keep yourself safe from spam-bots.

- All 10 winners will be selected in 72 hours.

- USA entries only. Sorry to my international readers, but the contest isn't open to people outside of the USA and Canada due to legality issues and I'd prefer to stay out of trouble!

Challenge Mission: London

More information on Mafia Wars Challenge Mission: London is now available. First off, players can start collecting passports in game. These will be an allegory to the Parisian Maps of Challenge Mission: Paris.

In other words, you will need a lot of these maps to use for the job.

The end-goal of this mission is to steal one of the Crown Jewels. There will be 3 chapters with a few jobs in each chapter that you can master and you will have to spend a lot of British Passports to get all the jobs done.

However, this time, it looks like there is an alternative way to get maps:

Each time you unlock a new chapter, you will be able to get a bunch of free British Passports just by adding a new person to your mafia. When you unlock Chapter 1, add two people for 60 free passports, 80 for Chapter 2, and 100 for Chapter 3.

If the British Passport requirements for the Challenge Mission: London jobs are similar to the costs of Paris, these maps will provide you with 1/3 of the maps you will need to complete the entire thing.

This is a good thing, because if you are like me you want to spend your energy on the new Bangkok jobs, not on low-paying NY jobs to collect passports.

Note that the rewards are shown in the picture above. For finishing off Chapter 1, you will get the Blockade Auto Shotgun (58 attack, 45 defense; weapon). For Chapter 2, you will get the FSB Agent (42 attack, 76 defense; armor). For Chapter 3, you will get the Nightowl Helicopter (107 attack, 55 defense; vehicle), which is quite nice. A high-powered vehicle like that will go a long way in robbing.

After adding your mafia member, you get to the starting screen of Mafia Wars Challenge Mission: London.

You can start collecting 12 maps every 24 hours now - might as well get an early start! There are just under 6 days left before Challenge Mission: London is unlocked - might as well stock up on free maps in the meantime!