Mafia Wars Black Friday Reward; Strategy Guide

From now until Tuesday at midnight (probably Monday night), various items will be on sale through Mafia Wars.

You can get a variety of limited edition loot, including old pieces that are now on available again, but this time at a discount.

However, the most intriguing thing is the reward:


Turns out it is just an Elephant Gun (43 attack, 17 defense), which has similar stats to a Ubijca Assault Rifle:


As a side note, normally available purchases, like +4 stats and energy refills, are not on sale.

Mafia Wars Food Fight / Thanksgiving Loot; Strategy Guide

The Mafia Wars Thanksgiving Loot event, "Food Fight" just went live. Here is the item list, pictures, and stats:


Weapons

Stuffed Turkey: 19 attack, 25 defense

Mashed Potatoes: 24 attack, 21 defense

Pea Shooter: 26 attack, 12 defense

Cooked Goose: 15 attack, 27 defense

Electric Carving Knife: 34 attack, 10 defense


Armor

Lucky Wishbone: 16 attack, 36 defense

Food Coma: 20 attack, 42 defense


Vchicles:

Gravy Boat: 40 attack, 24 defense


Notes:

Just like with all loot events, you can collect these items quickly by doing the 1 energy job in the Street Thug tier over and over again.

Edit: Many many jobs and an energy pack later, I ended up getting my 33rd item (which was the last one I needed). So, as far as I can tell, there is no limit to the amount of items you can get during the Thanksgiving Food Fight event. However, the drop rates seem to get significantly lower after your 30th item.

As far as item quality, there are no "must have" items, but the Gravy Boat and Food Coma are at least decent. They also seem to be the rarest.

Additionally, even if you already have everything, you can get 2 free reward points associated with the event. Every time you get an item you can publish it for your friends to get 2 free reward points.


There seems to be a cap of 10 reward points. I will try to collect again tomorrow and see what happens!

Mafia Wars Possible Energy Pack and Stamina Change; Strategy Guide

Just a quick heads up about stamina: on MySpace stamina now costs 2 skill points once again. Odds are this change will make it over to Facebook shortly (could be a few hours or a few days). So, if you want some more stamina, now is the time to load up.

Also, there is a potential energy pack change, though it does not seem to be active on all accounts. Apparently for some players (not live on my accounts), you have now have to ask for an energy pack (just like you would call for help on a job).

Pretty annoying if so, hopefully the energy pack change is just a test and is not permanent.

In other news, the Idaho Special has been replaced with a "Power Plough", a vehicle with 20 attack and 16 defense. Nothing special, but if you want one, follow the same procedure as with the Idaho Special - just ask for help then "collect" your take on your home page in the bottom left hand corner.

I will have updates shorly on the Thanksgiving Food Fight items when they come out.

Mafia Wars Food Fight: Thanksgiving Loot Items; Strategy Guide

Starting Thursday and running through Monday, Mafia Wars will be releasing another holiday loot event (Thanksgiving for all you non-Americans) entitled Food Fight.


Conveniently, there will not be any confusion around the release time - the promo pic specifically states that the items will go live Thursday Morning at 12:01 PST and will drop until Monday Night at 11:59 PST.

There will be 8 items in the set as usual. Only 6 so far have been named:

Mashed Potato
Cooked Goose
Carving Knife
Pea Shooter
Gravy Boat
Wishbone

You can see the two icons of the other two items on the official Facebook page. I am assuming the item depicted as a turkey leg in the guy's mouth will be "Turkey Stuffing". I have no idea what the item will be called where the guy is passed out at the table. Any guesses?