A Basic Mafia Wars Guide In Easy Simple Steps

Mafia Wars is the hottest thing to hit the social networking scene in quite awhile. It seems that everyone is either playing it or has many friends that are.  Here is a quick and easy Mafia Wars guide that should help you get your level on and start kicking some butt.

Welcome to our Mafia Wars guide. If you want to breeze through the game in a few days this simple guide will give you the “no fluff, no bull” ticket.

Choosing Your Path

Three are three distinct character types that you can choose from>

• Mogul – Earns more money from property
• Maniac – Faster energy regeneration
• Fearless – Faster health regeneration

Be careful when choosing your character type because at this time there is no way to switch classes once you have started, though there are rumors that Zynga may be offering that option in the future. There is discussion on the forums but nothing written in stone.

In this Mafia Wars Guide we will teach you the tricks of the trade and how to level quickly. Since energy equates into being able to do more jobs you might think that maniac is the way to go but that is where the vast majority of players make their first mistake. Yes Maniacs regenerate energy 40% faster than the other two types but in the long run energy is inconsequential.

We recommend that the Fearless type be chosen. Popular belief holds that fearless is the worst class to level and you may as well, but finish reading this Mafia Wars Guide before you decide.

On the “My Mafia” page players can designate their own top mafia members. There are six different slots that you can put members in to enhance your own character. One of those slots is Wheelman. This slot gives a bonus by reducing the energy cost of jobs. Fearless is the only type that can fill this position and the benefit of this is that occasionally you will be able to do a job for absolutely ZERO expenditure of energy. One of the basic ideas of this Mafia Wars Guide is that energy is irrelevant and the ability to do some wet work at no cost falls right into the scheme of things.

Getting Started

Chances are that if you are reading this guide you have already dabbled in Mafia Wars and are unhappy with the progress of your character. While there is no officially recognized means of changing character type there is a way around it. Unless you are very high in level, and you wouldn’t be reading this if you were, you can simply start a new account on the social network and start over

If you started over which I am sure many have. The first thing that you will need to do is start building that mafia. Since most people don’t have 500 real life friends much less that many playing Mafia Wars we will use some Guerilla tactics to get you up to 500 in about 24 hours

There is a huge amount of “add me” kind of pages on every social network and we will use them to explode your mafia list. Simply search for “mafia wars add me” within your network then pick the group with the largest number of members. Head over to their page and join up.

Next go into Mafia Wars and to your My Mafia page and copy the link that you can put on your status bar and put it in a notepad file and save it to desktop. Now, head back over to the group page that you just joined. Open up the member panel and get ready to start clicking. The easiest way that we have found is to open 10 – 20 members in a new tab each then click on the “add friend” button. Once the dialog pops up enter the link from you notepad file in the personal message section and click send. This will let them know you are looking for Mafia members and give them a link to join you. It is quite possible to get 500 or more members per day using this method.

There is a Javascript tool that will let you add all of these new members without using up you requests too. Its called Add All Friends v2.3 and can be found at echk.com/mw/.

To learn more about build a huge mafia super quick check out our Mafia Wars Add Me guide

Setting Up Your Mafia

Ok now that you are cranking at building you mafia we can get on to the next part of this Mafia Wars Guide.

You need to get your best members in the correct spots in the Top Mafia Section. Each job relies on different criteria.

• Mastermind – (Maximum Bonus 11%)Character Type: N/A
  Max. Bonus – 11%
  Determined by – Number of Completed Jobs
  Number Needed for Max Bonus – 14999+
• WheelmanCharacter Type: Fearless
  Max. Bonus – 11%
  Determined by – Player Level
  Number Needed for Max Bonus – 299+
• Button ManCharacter Type: N/A
  Max. Bonus – 11%
  Determined by – Player Level
  Number Needed for Max Bonus – 299+
• BodyguardCharacter Type: N/A
  Max. Bonus – 11%
  Determined by – Number of fights won
  Number Needed for Max Bonus – 49999+
• SafecrackerCharacter Type: N/A
  Max. Bonus – 15%
  Determined by – Number of Heists (Robberies)
  Number Needed for Max Bonus – 49999+
• BagmanCharacter Type: Mogul
  Max. Bonus – 15%
  Determined by – Character Level
  Number Needed for Max Bonus – 299+

If you get the top people in the top spots it makes leveling easier.

The next step is to get YOU in someone’s top mafia. You will not begin to enjoy the true benefit of doing jobs with the occasional zero energy cost until you get in the wheel man spot. The easiest way to do that is create a second account and use it to put your character in both the Wheel man and Mastermind spots.

This Mafia Wars Guide is designed to get you going as fast as possible to the top by showing you which character class is going to level the quickest and how to build and organize a mafia that given a little time will rank right up there with the best of them. There may be more to the game but this Mafia Wars Guide gives you the nuts and bolts of leveling quickly and being a valuable piece of anyone’s top mafia.