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Put 'Em On Ice has many players asking what is the best destination to ice people in. The answer is simple. Not Brazil. Arvind Jain, posted a few images on the Mafia Wars Loot Lady Fan Page to illustrate the answer.
(go here for the narrative and comments)

(go here for the narrative and comments)

I decided to review all the different buttons we have for attacks and demonstrate Arvind's posts. In New York (and all other destinations excluding Brazil), you have and Attack button and a Power Attack button. I attacked Mafia King and took images of my fight stats after each attack. You can see that using the Attack button counts for 1 attack on my stats and the Power Attack button counts for 5.

Attack Button

 Power Attack Button

In the upper right corner of the fight results page, you can see how many attacks actually took place.

If you are close to killing or icing an opponent and less than 5 attacks are needed, only the number of fights it took to ice the player will be utilized with the Power Attack Button. I attacked Mafia King using the Power Attack button and iced him.

You can see by the results that it took 2 attacks instead of 5.

Now Brazil is a little different. When using the 5 Attack button, it only counts as one fight on your statistics. The Power Attack button counts as 25 Power Attack button counts as 5 fights. This is why you get far less Victory Coins in fighting in Brazil. You do get 5 times the loot (only when your opponent is also in Brazil) so many choose to fight in this destination. It's also a much faster way to burn through your stamina.

5 Attack

25 Attack

The stamina utilized in Brazil is 5 and 25 depending on which button you use but you only get credit for 1 or 5 fights. This is why it's not a good idea to fight in Brazil if you're trying to get as many ices as possible. Your stamina/ice ratio will be much lower than in other destinations.

You can see that the damage done to a player will be about the same in New York and Brazil but the fights cost you more stamina in Brazil.

Attack Button 17 Damage

 Power Attack Button 76 Damage

 5 Attack Button 15 Damage

 25 Power Attack Button 67 Damage

Thanks to Mafia King for turning on his auto-healer and letting me attack him for this post. Unfortunately he got a nice message from Zynga while attempting to help. Mafia King wasn't doing anything but auto-healing.

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Article written by Jennifer Patterson, Creator of the MW Loot Lady Blog, The Mafia Wars Loot Lady Facebook Fan Page and Co-Host of The Informant Podcast. All material is protected by copyright law