Ice Mastery Challenge Walk Through

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Finally an event for the fighters. I think players will enjoy this one as it plays off of game functions we would be doing anyways. There is very little spam involved and it's happening at a time when people are working on maxing out on Fighting High End Loot 5 (FHEL5) items. Find the Ice Mastery Challenge on your Current Event Home Page Module.

Click on "View All Reward" to learn more about the rewards.

If you follow this blog, the special loot items shouldn't be a surprise. There is a level mastery item called the Tundra Tiger that will change stats as you progress to the Ruby Level of mastery.

There is a special Diamond Level of mastery and you will get a secret loot item for reaching 1,000 ices. This isn't a surprise either as I already let the cat out of the bag. The Talking Stalk can't keep a secret! If Zynga wants to keep a loot item under wraps, they shouldn't put it in the inventory. They also should refrain from making an outline of the item in the spot with all the question marks!

If you aren't sure what the definition of an ice is, don't worry. Zynga clearly defines it for you.

To begin, click on "Go Fight" from any screen or simply go to your fight list. The destination you fight in doesn't matter. All you need to do is ice people. This may take a while because as you can see, there aren't that many living targets on the fight list.

When you get your fist ice, you will notice the ice popup has changed. You need a total of 10 ices to get Bronze Mastery.

I'm certainly not going to manually ice 1,000 players so I decided to run Brawler. Because the ice popup changed, Brawler is not logging your ices but you still get credit for them.

When I went back to my Home Page, my ice mastery bar was full and I was able to collect the mastery loot item.

Click "Collect" get your Bronze Tundra Tiger.

The only spam in this event is optional. Click on "Share" to let your mafia know what you did. The spam is useless because when players click on "Go Fight", they are directed to their Fight Page.

The number of ices you need to reach the next level go up exponentially. Ten are needed for the Bronze Level, 30 for Silver, 100 for Gold and 200 for Ruby. Each ice popup will tell you where you are and how many ices you need to get to the next level. It's been confirmed that carry over ices will count towards the next level of mastery if you forget to collect you mastery loot item.

I'm currently working on 1,000 ices and will post the reward once I get there.

Adeline got the first 340 ices and got a manual ice popup. You can see the next reward and how many ices you need to get it. If people wonder what Zynga's stance on scripts is, this should answer their question. I would call this more of a Brawler Event than a fighting event. 1,000 ices in 12 days is a lot to ask of players unless of course they use Brawler.

Now for the best part. Notice on the Home Page Module it says "Fighting Updates Coming Soon!". These changes were presented to the PAC and we were able to provide some input. I can't say yet what the changes are going to be but they should help improve the fighting experience. Most things we have complained about should be corrected with the new fight module.

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