Mafia Wars Stamina part 2

Mafia wars stamina - part 2 (489 words)

When you first begin playing mafia wars you should put all of your skill points into energy and stamina. I used to put all of my points into energy, but you can do just as well with stamina, but only if you know a neat little trick. We'll talk about that in a bit. I you are interested in mastering all of the job tiers you'll need a lot more energy, but if fighting is all you care about you can use stamina these days because of the new robbing feature.

Robbing works a lot like doing jobs. You use stamina to gain money and experience. The nice thing about robbing is that it doesn't use up health, and when you are successful you get a bonus to the experience gained. Robbing can actually be more efficient than doing jobs when it comes to experience per point (of energy or stamina) used.

May not sound like a big tip, but it's quite useful if you do a bit of planning. I suggest pouring all of your points into energy and stamina until you have 500 or 1,000 points together in the two. After that, pour the points into attack and defense. I am interested in completing the job tiers, so I put a lot more points into energy for jobs, but I also put points into stamina so that I could clear the robbing board four or five times at the beginning of every level.

By throwing all those points into energy and stamina you will level much faster at first, while you recruit a bigger mafia. Level 500 might sound like a LONG way off, but it's really not that bad. If you pump energy and stamina up to about level 200 and then pour it on in the attack and defense departments, you can hit level 500 with a full mafia and simply crush people in fights and wars. Stamina isn't such a bad deal for leveling up, and if completing jobs masteries isn't interesting you can go with a lot more stamina than energy.

I used to be all about energy at the lower levels, but it turns out that stamina is just as effective for leveling. Yes, you'll lose when you rob if you don't beef up your attack and defense, but it all evens out in the end and gaining more levels makes getting skill points later on a lot easier. A big energy pool means that you can fly through mastery levels in Cuba and Moscow to gain easy points later on.

In the end, take it from a pro and don't worry too much about attack and defense at first. Build your mafia size by recruiting on group walls and get a big bunch of energy and stamina first. I guess you could take a balanced approach, but that just doesn't seem too fun - it is a war out there you know.

Mafia Wars Stamina part 1

There are two kinds of video game players regardless of what kind of game you're talking about. There are the pros, who study the game (probably harder than they have ever studied anything else) and the casual folks. Casual players always make up the vast majority of the population of any role playing game, and the pros, well nobody pays all that much attention to them really. But even casual players like to have a certain level of competence when they play, although they might not put as much time and effort into it as a pro might. You just wouldn't believe how sophisticated game analysis is for some things, like World of Warcraft. Honestly, it can get a little out of hand. But we're supposed to be talking about mafia wars stamina here, and ways that the casual player can look a little pro with a few good tips in that regard.

The whole point (I promise there is one) is that you don't have to be a pro to look like one. All you need is some pro tips, and the great thing about mafia wars is that it's not really all that complex. There are many elements to mafia wars, but for pros (I hate to admit I often act like one) the shortcuts become apparent pretty quickly.

There are basically two ways to play mafia wars. One way is to go all out thuggery and build up attack power and defense and just whip everyone in fights and wars and robbing. The only problem with this is that it leaves you with very little energy. Not having enough energy means you won't level very fast, so you get stuck winning fights, but only against low level folks - which isn't great on the bragging rights scale.

The other way is to level quickly and gain more resources. I've never been much on PvP in RPG's (player vs player) so the whole fight and war thing wasn't really my cup of tea. I've got all of the property achievements in every country as well as all the money achievements, mastered New York, Cuba and Half of Moscow before level 300. All of that gave me more than 50 achievements out of 74, not bad eh?

But one thing I discovered along the way is that you can probably have your cake and eat it too, and so let's talk specifically about mafia wars stamina. Stamina works a little like energy in that you have to have energy to do jobs, and you have to have stamina to fight. But fighting isn't going to get you very far. You have to do other things to level up first before you can get yourself in a position to be really good at fights. We'll cover the specifics in part 2.