Mafia Wars – Tips, Tricks, & Cheats
It’s time for another tips session, and this time, it’s off to the mafia. Mafia Wars seems like a simple game at first glance, but once you get into it, it actually begins to become somewhat complicated with hits, different jobs, adding members, equipping all of them, and so on. What do you buy? What quests do you do? How should you level? These are all questions that are posed by new players, and it can be a bit daunting. Well, we searched high and low for ways to help you out, and hopefully these tips and tricks will help those new players that simply feel overwhelmed.
So you’ve started Mafia Wars and you’re not sure where to start, well, the first choice is easy enough: Pick a “Maniac” class. While earning more cash or health might seem appealing, energy is what allows you to do quests and it is significantly better to earn both cash and experience instead of just one. That said, it’s time to get down to business.
DO NOT add to you mafia right away. Yes, you do want a large mafia to be stronger, but if you are ill-prepared, this is going to hurt more than help. Essentially, you want to have a “Mafia Mikes” and a “Bloody Chainsaw” (please note, that the bloody chainsaw is a special item bought from the home page and will periodically change. For all intents and purposes, the special item tends to have similar stats, and is often interchangable if the chainsaw is gone) for every two members. Here’s the thing though, the game bases the amount of members you need for another one of these items based on your current members. So say you bought a chainsaw with a mafia of 12, but then added 8 people, you’ll now need 22 members to buy another one, thus losing out the extra chainsaws you could have bought at 16, 18, and 20 members. Assuming that you are now equipping properly, it is time to spend some experience points.
Ideally, you want to put all of your points into energy so you can level faster. Since quests are going to be your primary source of experience and cash (hence why you used maniac), your limiting factor is how fast your energy recharges. Furthermore, energy resets every level, so having an high energy and a fast regeneration can get you to higher levels exponentially faster. Of course, you will want other stats eventually (when that is, is completely up to you), but this will give you a nice start.
Okay, so now you’re leveling at a nice pace and you’re getting those Mafia Mikes and Bloody Chainsaws when you should. What’s next? Why, equipping your mafia of course, and this can be done either via looting or buying. In general, it is better to loot in higher missions, but if you want to be safer, just buy, and if you’ve been doing what’s been said so far, money shouldn’t be a serious issue. The recommended equipment is as follows (once you can buy them of course):
- Weapons: Bloody Chainsaws should be available to half your mafia (since you’ve been buying them every two members right?), thus the other half should utilize the Chain Guns (.50 Caliber Rifle is better once you start looting).
- Armor: Body Armor all around – period. Yes, you can buy other stuff too, but this is a definite purchase.
- Cars: Secondary to armor and weapons, but if you must have one, the Towncar comes recommended.
This should be more than enough to get you started on the right track in Mafia Wars. However, before things get wrapped up, here are some other interesting tips found around the web that should work for both the MySpace and Facebook versions of the game.
- Avoid the Hitlist as best as possible. While it might be fun at higher levels, drawing attention to yourself at lower levels is just going to get you killed over and over again by high level players. Stay under the radar as long as you can.
- If you ever attack someone and get the maximum amount of cash ($70,000), bookmark them and attack them as often as possible.
- When you do start using other stats besides energy, it is best to keep attack and defense equal.
- (MySpace Version) More Energy – Send an energy pack to a friend along with the message, then go to your MySpace page and click on the link (the image) and you will send one to yourself.
- (MySpace Version) Beat the Bank 10% – Annoying, but if you deposit $9 at a time you will beat the system.
- Best Early Cash & Experience Jobs:
o Level 1 – 4: Auto Theft
o Level 5 – 8: Bank Heist
o Level 9 – 12: Museum Break In
o Level 13 – 17: Wiretap the Cops
Best of luck, and happy gaming.
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I can not buy the Tenement. Is there a level that I need to reach to purchase? I am at level 20.
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level 54
by the way, i’ve only been playing for 25 days, its a pretty cool game and easy to level up, i mainly concentrated on the whole game not just trying to level up, i found that if yourun out of energy, just go and fight so that you can level up, giving yourself the extra something to level up, then repeat the process, and just as I said, did everything I could to be a all around character, so when I ran our of energy and stamina, I moved on to working on my properties, which I already have most of them at level 100, then using the peofits to purchase alot of the inventory, which I found actually made your character more powerful depending on what you purchased and how many.
Worst advice ever.
Increase your mafia as fast as you can. Post on the Add Mafia Wars boards. Strong mafia members and more mafia members up to 501 max usable is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than your ATTACK or DEFENSE or even ENERGY. With 501+ members, I don’t need ATTACK, DEFENSE or ENERGY. Especially if you have a lot of 1500+ members. I have 40 1500+ members and some over level 8000. NO ONE BEATS ME. If they manage to do so, I ask my mafia to wipe them out. Done. Then we rob them blind until they no longer own properties. NUCLEAR OPTION is usable with a strong mafia family.
Mogul with Mastermind and Wheelman is the best way to level. Maniac can’t compete with how fast Moguls can level.
Don’t spend any points anywhere except in Energy at first. Until you reach 400 energy. Then you can start spreading around points to other areas.
Then once you’ve done that, work on Attack and Defense until you have 2x Attack or Defense for your level. If you are level 50, your Attack & Defense should be at 100. Maintain that. Plus, throw in extra points into Energy. If you get 5, 2 to Attack, 2 to Defense, 1 to energy.
Next, if you care about fighting or doing jobs, you may want to boost Stamina to 144. No more than that. And most people are happy leaving Stamina at the starting level. So it’s based on your gameplay.
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Help … I am a fairly new player (level 500) but no matter how I build up I keep getting my butt kicked.
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I’ve got only 30 mafia and I need more please…
Where do you get the private jet item?
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Nice game.Still playable after 2 years.
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needing good players for my family. lots of action and rewards.
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