Fight or Rob? Part 2

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A few days ago, I compared fighting to robbing to see which was a better use of stamina to get the new fighting loot items (1). I did two small runs because there were bugs and I didn't go into much detail about the data. Now that the bugs have been fixed, it's time to take a closer look at the drop rates and compare fighting and robbing. Most players fight in Brazil because it's faster and you get more loot items. Most are finding that the more loot drops in New York than the other destinations even though it costs less stamina to clear a board in Italy. We get loot items for robbing board clears and random individual robberies. I did two 50K+ stamina runs on the same account and they are compared below.

Fighting: Brazil

Stamina Used: 50,140

Robbing: New York

Stamina Used: 51,272

Here is the raw data of each run in case you want to review a specific loot item I didn't mention.

You do get Victory Coins when robbing. They aren't mentioned in the game or logged anywhere. Martin said that he was going to look into adding a logging function for Victory Coins in the new Robber BG bookmarklet. I did my fight run prior to the robbing run so I took a screen shot of my Victory Coins after the robbing run and calculated how many I earned robbing.

In a perfect world, I would have a large fighting run in New York to show you. Once you fight in Brazil, it's hard to go back to other destinations. Here is a much smaller run but we can compare the stamina cost per item.

Fighting: New York

Stamina Used: 20,212

The chart below sums up and compares the important data of the three runs. From the data below (which is specific to my account and will be different on yours), I got a lot more bang for my stamina buck from fighting. What's important to note about robbing is the exp/stamina ratio. If you are able to level non-stop from robbing, it's better to rob for your loot items as you can keep going. There is also a bug in robbing in which the same loot item is awarded for board clears over and over. If you are lucky to catch that then robbing is better. Fighting will cost you less stamina per item but you won't get to the next level as quickly.
Stamina cost per item listed in yellow

	Fighting Brazil	Robbing New York	Fighting New York
Stamina Used	50,140	51,272	20,212
Exp/Stamina Ratio	2.18	2.70	2.29
Victory Coins	2,014 (25)	3,226 (16)	3,478 (6)
Attack Score Increase	+995 (50)	+127 (404)	+251 (81)
Defense Score Increase	+1,077 (47)	+117 (439)	+295 (69)
Idle Hands	105  (478)	9 (5,697)	17 (1,189)
Slipstreams	80 (627)	12 (4,273)	32 (632)
Talons	50 (1,003)	15 (3,18)	28 (722)
Windswepts	150 (334)	13 (3,944)	22 (919)
Construction Workers	15 (3,342)	2 (25,636)	10 (2,021)
Brazilian Timber	10 (5,014)	2 (25,636)	8 (2,526)
Italy Upgrade Parts	225 (223)	19 (2,699)	96 (211)
Weapon Parts	421(119)	27 (1,899)	167 (121)
Railgun Barrels	5 (10,028)	0 (N/A)	0 (N/A)
Portable Fusion Reactors	10 (5,014)	1 (51,272)	2 (10,106)

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