The mysterious gifting and special event items added to the inventory last week now have a purpose [1], [2]. They are all for a new event called Gifting Spirit which also explains the post on the Mafia Wars fan page [1]. The objective of this event is to collect 100 items per day from jobs, fights (including Arenas) and robs. After the items are collected you can gift them to your mafia. Once you do you will get credit towards mastery. Gift 10, 25, 45 and 70 items to master the bronze, silver, gold and ruby levels. It doesn’t matter if the person you sent them to accepts them or not. You can replay the event 10 times which means you will need to send out 700 gifts in a 7 day period (100 per day). It’s important to note that if you gift over 70 that those will be wasted. You must wait until everything is reset to bronze before you start gifting again. You can collect up to 50 of these items per day but you won’t know what the items are until after you collect. It’s also important to remember that none of these items drop in New York so if you think something is wrong you are probably in New York. Some of this loot is useful so it will be luck of the draw as to how many active items you receive. VIP players get a different item than non-VIP players but non-VIP players get an item that VIP players don’t get so it all evens out. Non-VIP players can receive the VIP item, they just can’t send them. The rewards and FAQ is reprinted below and more may be posted about this event once strategies are formulated. Sorry for the delay but I wasn’t online for most of the day. Thanks to everyone who posted information about this event on our fan page.
Unique VIP Loot Gift
Unique non-VIP Loot Gift
Mastery Items
FAQ: Gifting Spirit
Loot and Gift special items to progress on the Mastery bar.
Q: What is Gifting Spirit?
A: Gifting Spirit is a new event where you can Gift Special Loots to your friends and progress on the Mastery bar.
Q: When will the event start?
A: This feature will be rolled out to all players on November 12th 2014, Midnight PST.
Q: How do I access Gifting Spirit?
A: Gifting Spirit can be accessed from the Home Page Module.
Q: How do I get the Special Loot?
A: Special Loot will drop from Jobbing, Robbing, Fighting and Arena. You will also be able to view the Loots earned for the day in the “What’s this” section.
View the total Special Loot available
*There will be a Special Giftable Loot that will drop for all VIP players.
Special Giftable Loot will drop from all Destinations, except New York.
Q: How does Gifting Spirit work?
A: Special Loots are dropped from Jobbing, Robbing, Fighting and Arena. These will be available for you to gift on the HP mode.
Gift these items to your friends in order to progress on the Mastery bar and to earn a Mastery Reward.
More information about Special Loot items:
These items are only meant to be gifted and hence they will not get added to your Inventory or count towards your Mafia Attack and Mafia Defense Skill as you loot them.
You can give only 1 gift to a unique player/friend on a given day (in 24hrs).
Please note that these items cannot be added to the Wishlist.
The Special Loot you receive from your friends will be added to your Inventory automatically.
Q: Where can I view the Special Loot?
A: Collect atleast one of each item from Jobbing, Robbing, Fighting or Arena to view them on the Home Page Module.
Please note: A maximum of 25 of each of these special loot will drop every 24 hours.
Q: Is there a limit in accepting Special Loot?
A: Yes, only 50 Special Loot can be accepted in 24 hours from your friends.
Note: Special loot sent to you will be available for 2 days, so claim them from the message center before they expire.
Q: How do I Master the event?
A: Gift items to your friends to view the progress in the Mastery bar.
You will see the progress in the Mastery bar regardless the receiver has accepted the gift or not.
Once the Mastery bar is full, you will be granted with a Mastery reward. The Mastery bar progresses and moves to next tier () or resets as and when you gift items to your friends.
If you have gifted more than what it requires to reach the Ruby Mastery, the progression is not counted when the Mastery bar resets towards Bronze level.
Reward Item:
Q: Can I Master the event once I collect the Ruby Mastery Reward?
A: Yes, once you reach Ruby Mastery it will automatically reset your progression and you can Master the event again.
You can master this event up to 10 times.
Q: When will the event end?
A: The event will end on November 18th 2014, 23:59 PST.
Thank you for playing Mafia Wars!
Mafia Wars Team
To be fair, I wouldn't say that any gifts sent past 70 are wasted. True you won't get any more progress towards the event but these items help the average person's equipment score. There are still many people out there who have dwindling active mafia and might struggle to have enough sent to them. If everyone just sends out their entire stock each day (assuming you have no issue getting 70+ per day), it helps the community out.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I've discovered the reason for the difference in mastery between my two accounts. It was driving me crazy! lol I gifted too many at once in my second account.
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