Nov 14, 2011

The Best Experience/Energy Jobs

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As players fully master destinations, we often see them ask what job they should be doing. In the past (when Mafia Wars was more fun), you would do jobs that dropped the best loot and try to get 500 items. Once Zynga shifted the better loot items over to fighting and reduced the job loot drop rates to essentially nothing, that all changed. Unless you're a huge serial leveling energy player, doing jobs for loot is a waste of your resources. The loot items with the highest scores drop in District 6 of Chicago. If you are maxed out on Cuba loot and fight loot, the only loot items in Chicago that will probably help you is the Ladder from District 4 and the Getaway Truck from District 8.
To see what Chicago items will help you, use the Inventory Group Spocklet.
To demonstrate how poorly these items drop, I did a 1,000 job run in District 6. The best job that does't require consumables is "Plan a Decisive Blow Against the North Siders" and has a experience/energy ratio of 1.99. The problem is the job costs 1,180 energy per click. It's hard to farm items when you can only do a few jobs per energy refill.
This run (performed on a energy account) cost about 1.2 million energy and only yielded 7 Getaway Trucks. If I had ambitions to max on these items, I would need to spend about 86 million energy.  With my total energy pool of 5,356, it would take about 16,000 energy refills to achieve this goal. I plan on doing the same thing I did with the Brazil job loot. Wait it out because the loot will be outdated before I could ever dream of maxing out on it.
If you decide that farming loot isn't worth it for your account, the next best thing to look for when choosing a job is the experience/energy ratio. The better the ratio, the faster you will level. You would think the latest destination would have the best ratio but that's not the case. Currently the highest experience/energy job in the game is the Ruby Level "Bribe a Taubate Prison Worker" which is in District 8 of Brazil. The job requires 648 energy and pays out 1,430 experience which gives it a ratio of 2.22.
Many players don't do this job because it requires 4,450 Real per click but there is away around that. I had enough energy to do this job 4 times. If you bank all your Real before starting the job, you won't have to pay for it. Nothing will come out of your bank.
I took screen shots of my bank balance before and after doing the 4 jobs shown above. I refreshed my game before taking the second image
Before
After
If you don't have enough energy to do the Brazil job, there are a few alternatives to ensure you get the most experience points out of your remaining energy pool. The best job in Chicago is n District 2 and has a ratio of 2.14. "Secure Hooch to Sell in Your Joint" costs 324 energy.
The best job in Las Vegas, "Dig Up Links To Halloran And A Meth Ring" has a ratio of 2.07. This job costs 10,200 Vegas Chips per clip and there is no work around.
The next best job which doesn't require consumables or currency is "Verify Halloran's Arrival At The Dam". The ratio is 2.03.
If you don't have that much energy left and want to squeeze as much experience out of it as possible, there are a few jobs in New York with ratios over 2.0. The best job "Buy Off a Federal Agent" is in the Boss Tier and has a ratio of 2.16. It requires a consumable item (Blackmail Photos) but they are easy enough to get through gifting. I do this job when I have a small amount of energy left and I'm trying to level.
The next best job, "Run Illegal Poker Game" is in the Enforcer Tier and has a ratio of 2.11. It does require job prep items.
Secret Districts used to offer a job with a better ratio than what you can find in the current destinations. The current one which is set to expire in a little over a day offers nothing to be desired. The best ratio for a job that doesn't require a consumable is 1.97. There are two more Secret Districts in the line up of things to come and I really hope Zynga will go back to adding a job with a better ratio. They could give the loot better stats as well.
The best event we have had in a long time was the Ruby Level of Cuba. The jobs didn't cost very much and the loot items were useful. The drop rates were reasonable and a lot of players were able to max out. The ratios weren't that great but the loot made up for it.  Many players had fun with this event because it reminded us of what Mafia Wars used to be like when we got hooked. I would love to see events like this one instead of the Secret Districts.

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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.
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14 comments:

  1. If you are maxed out on Cuba loot and fight loot, the only loot items in Chicago that will probably help you is the Ladder from District 4 and the Getaway Truck from District 8.

    To demonstrate how poorly these items drop, I did a 1,000 job run in District 8. The best job that does't require consumables is "Plan a Decisive Blow Against the North Siders" and has a experience/energy ratio of 1.99.

    District 8 ?? The last is district 6 in chicago ..
    I think you need to update this post !

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  2. I've noticed that the best ratios, though, don't always net the most xp per level, due to energy that's left over (i e., you have 6500 energy, and a job costs 1000, so you leave 500 on the table.

    Almost without fail, the job that nets the most xp per level is always going to be the one that uses as much of your energy as possible. The Spock toolbar and MWE both show calculations for how much energy you will have left when you are done however many of the jobs you can do with your current energy.

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  3. Is it not obvious to Z? EVERYONE talks about how great the game was, yet they do very little to return it to it's former glory.
    ...for that Z gets a HUGE dumb stamp.

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  4. You are right Jennifer. Cuba was a lot of fun for the very reason that you mention. Amazing to think that we once thought that Cuba was too energy intensive. rofl

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  5. Great post, very useful. One brief note regarding the "Verify Halloran's Arrival At The Dam" job. The "Nab a High Tech Prototype" job in Area 51 has the same ratio, and pays out higher cash (V$28,735 vs. V$17,222) - not that V$ is that valuable to most people, but did want to point it out as regards "best" in overall terms.

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  6. hey,

    i've mastered all Brasil Levels but the job "Bribe a Taubate Prison Worker" cost me 729 energy for 1.43k exp. Is there anybody else with this problem? I don't know why i've these stats.

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  7. The jobs in NY you mentioned all need consumables. The overall ratio (job + job to get the consumables) is not very good.
    The best job under 100 energy is Gun Down Kidnappers in Belem.

    Ma.

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  8. Many players don't do this job because it requires 4,450 Real per click....

    Is this a religious thing?
    Saving the BZ money for what exactly ?
    It's good for healing if you have enough of it.
    But don't think you're saving it for a trip with Mike...
    http://bit.ly/tVa7FG

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  9. you forgot the White Socks Wolf and the Opossum

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  10. Everyone loves to blame Zynga when the real problem is the scripts so many people are using. Of *course* they've lowered the drop rates, when people are doing massive numbers of jobs using scripts. If I were on the Zynga team I would program it to detect when scripts are being used (which is super easy), and change the drop rate accordingly. Until they do that, let's make no mistake: what has ruined this game is all the script users.

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  11. Yeah, the author of this site is practically the script-usingest player ever, is telling everyone else how to use scripts, and then loves to complain that they lowered the drop rate. What did she expect?

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  12. @the two anonymous posters above...you both are very uneducated about scripts and must have bought into the false rumors about them. Scripts to nothing more than manually clicking will do. I only post scripts that do nothing more than your finger could. Believe it or not, I'm too busy making blog posts to actually play the game the way I would like so calling me the script-usingest player makes me laugh. Without scripts, you wouldn't even know the drop rates of loot items. Go back to the forums if you must troll. Your misinformed and inaccurate comments only make you both look more stupid than you probably already are. I wouldn't sign my name either.

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  13. MW LootLady....The hecklers above are clueless as to the complexity of the game. I read your blog before I read my newspaper in the morning...As far as the scripting just doing what the finger could, you are so RIGHT!!!!...I have some issues with my hands and would not be able to play without them.....I will sign my name....

    Sincerly grateful for all you do, Marie McAuley

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  14. The best NRG to EXP ratio in Las Vegas is actually in District 4...Hack the Casino Security System...it pays 2.11...for every 100 NRG you receive 211 EXP

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