Best Tips & Strategies For Playing Mafia Wars

When first playing Mafia wars there is a chance to choose which Mafia characteristic you would like, these come in three forms mogul which make money faster, maniacs who recovery energy faster and fearless who regain health quickly.

Since the game is entirely based around energy for doing jobs to build cash reserves and for fast experience gaining to level up quicker. The best one to choose when starting out would be the Maniacs characteristic for quicker energy gain which is probably one of the so called Mafia wars cheats..

MAFIA FRIENDS

Relationships are important for future jobs and for begging for weapons and gaining important items. The very best way to build friends is to visit the groups section and search for Mafia wars, loads of Mafia wars family building group pages appear and simply joining and placing a polite "add me, please" message on the groups wall will help grow your Mafia family this is again one of the well known Mafia wars cheats.

JOBS

When you first start out you are in New York the jobs are very scarce and some require certain weapons to be bought from the inventory section to actually do the jobs so gaining some cash at first to buy weapons is important, there are two ways to do this either start fights which helps build your bank balance and experience for levelling (will need a Mafia family of 10 or more for better chance of winning and will need to spend cash to regain health at the hospital), do the job increaser method i.e. do the mugging job till you have enough to buy crow bar, do corner store hold up till you got enough cash to buy .45 calibre pistol and so on this again builds your bank balance and experience points for levelling.

Any cash you don't spend always put it in the bank this will prevent enemy Mafia wars members fighting you in fights and taking your hard earned cash from you.

Once you open more jobs, then switch to doing the jobs that give the most experience points for the least job energy spent. In the early stages of levelling you will find that with this method you can advanced up levels very quickly indeed.

SPENDING CASH/BUYING PROPERTY

In the early stages it is best to spend your hard earned cash from jobs in the inventory on weapons, body armour and vehicles this helps to increase the defence and attack attributes of your whole gang and enables you to take on gangs that have more family members than you in fights taking more cash and experience and dealing bigger damage to them, be careful what equipment you buy at the start because the better equipment cost money to upkeep and its easy to find yourself going bankrupt.

Also its best to invest cash in buying land and properties this gives you income every three hours which will greatly help with your buying of weapons and counter-balancing the cost of upkeep for weapons you own, in the early stages your cash is very low, so its best to save up money doing jobs and bulk buy land and properties in bundles of 10. The best land and properties to buy at the beginning are 'Abandoned Lot' and 'Mafia Mikes' this will give you cash earning a nice boost.

Note only buy 500 of each equipment in weapons because past this point your defence and attack attributes no longer increase, so its a waste of money, also don't bother buying the speed boats as these are no benefit to you whatsoever.

LEVELLING AND PROFILE POINTS

Every time you level up your Mafia wars character attributes refill fully and you gain 5 profile points to strengthen the statistics of your Mafia wars character, you can add points to the six different attributes, Attack, Defence, Health, Energy, Stamina and Influence. At the beginning it is recommended to spend all the 5 profile points from levelling on the energy attribute to help you perform more jobs each level therefore gaining cash and experience to help levelling quicker.

Also you will notice when levelling more jobs become available for each level stage you are at e.g. between levels 1-4 only street thug jobs are available and 5-8 associate jobs and so on, In each job section each job has a blue levelling bar (three levels in total), once the blue bar is full that job level is reached and your are awarded a profile point. The best way to spend the points from completed jobs levels is on either strengthening your attack or defence attributes, this will help in fights and also when you are being attacked in defence.

As you play through Mafia Wars you will see that many jobs and achievements will give you valuable profile points, experience, weapons, items and most important the cash to buy available weapons and equipment to strengthen your Mafia family.

GODFATHER POINTS

Now Godfather Points are very useful, you will notice at the beginning that you will have some Godfather points to spend, well the best way to spend these points is to fully replenish your energy bar when exhausted which costs 10 Godfather points, the other items are just little luxuries which you may or may not want to purchase at a later date.

Notice you will gain 1 Godfather point for every two levels you gain, just save these up to 10 points and replenish your energy for faster levelling capabilities.

ENERGY PACKS

Every 23 hours you are usually sent an energy pack from your Mafia Family this will replenish the energy bar and add 25% to your energy attribute and is best to use when you have exhausted all your energy and stamina and still need 200 or more experience points in order to level up.

COLLECTIONS & VAULTS ALSO BEGGING

In the Mafia Wars game is Collections and Vault which is in the inventory section, this is another great way to gain energy advantages and again more items are available to collect as you continue to level up. In this area you will find various items to collect and vault which give you various benefits for example collecting and vaulting the diamond flush collection for the first time will give you 1 energy point and if you were to collect and re-vault again you would gain tripwires to help in defence, you can gain these items through loot that are found at jobs or if you've built a sizeable Mafia family then you can send item request out and hopefully your kind Mafia family will send them to you for free.

Note at the beginning it is best to try and vault collections that give you job energy loss discounts such as the heart flush collection this will give you +5 health the first time you vault and -3 job energy costs when you re-vault the collection, Others to look out for later on are the club flush collection, the cigars collection, the rings collection and the great horses collection. Others will become available to you once you have access to the Cuba and Moscow scenarios.

THE BIG TIP FOR NEW YORK JOBS

The most important item in the New York Job scenario and the rarest to get hold of is the 'untraceable mobile phone', you will notice that jobs in Capo job levels and above will require you to have this item to partake in one or two of the jobs and you will need loads of this item to successfully master the job levels. The only place you can get hold of 'untraceable mobile phones' is to do the 'Rob an Electronic Store' job in the Enforcer job level and what's worse is you have a 1 in 3 chance of successfully obtaining one each time you do the job. So my tip would be to waste several levels of job energy doing the 'Rob an Electronic Store' job and build up your 'untraceable mobile phone' stash to help with later jobs that require them and also doing this job will build up your stash of 'Concealable Camera' and 'Computer Set-Up'. You will also need the 'Concealable Camera' to help gain 'Blackmail Photos' which are also important for later level mastering.