Big Payoff completed!

Yes that's right, a Mafia Wars God has done it again, and already completed the Big Payoff! Amazing! Thanks Matthias E for sharing this in the group.

Big Payoff or Big Ripoff?

Here is my first energy run at this Big Payoff job. Based on the initial results, I'm thinking it's less of a payoff and more of a ripoff.

When performing this job, there is only a *chance* that you will earn experience points - something that we take for granted when doing jobs. There's also a chance for +5 attack or defense.

I blew through 24,000 energy, and got 8,000 XP and +5 attack. That's a return rate of .33 -- that's terrible. And I could've gotten +5 attack from leveling up very easily with the 24,000 energy that I had. Oh, and I guess I got a little less than half of a Thin Ice mastery item :-/

So I loaded up on an energy pack, putting me at 30,000 energy.

Here are those results. That's .27 xp return this time, although I did get more attack and defense points, which I would _not_ ordinarily have gotten with 30,000 energy.

So 54,000 energy later, and this puppy is still only 77% mastered.

Sooo...I went ahead and got an energy refill.The returns from this run of 24,000 energy were pretty abysmal.

Finally, with only 1,000 energy to spare, I mastered the job for the first time and earned my first Thin Ice! We can master it up to 25 times I think, but if it is going to take me 78,000 ....I dunno if even I can pull that off.

The Big Payoff is here!

 FOUND: Rio de Janeiro, Centro. You can't miss it from there. It will only show up if you have at least 2,000 energy capacity.

Located: BRAZIL - Rio de Janeiro: Centro
You have 3 days to complete
You get a chance at 1-9% mastery for every 1K energy
You get a chance at +2000EXP, +5ATT or +5DEF each hit

Hmm, so you might not even get any XP for all that energy you put into the job? Well, let's go see how fast someone can master it :0)

Premium Boosts & The Big Payoff energy job

To follow up with some of the announcements made during tonight's Mafia Wars Live broadcast, the Mafia Wars blog has made a post with some additional information. There will be 3 new "premium" boosts, and you'll be able to buy 10 of them for 12 RP. Here they are:

	Vampire Batting Restores your health by half the amount damage you deal. (i.e. If you deal 20 damage to your opponent, you will also regain 10 health.)

Ruthless Doubles the damage you deal when you attack your opponent.

Decoy Steals your opponent’s money when you lose a fight - instead of losing money. (This boost will only be activated when you lose a fight and your opponent has cash available to steal.)

 

 For a 'limited time', when you buy Reward Points, there's a chance that you'll get double the RP you paid for, or at least 'bonus RP'. Hm. 

Details are sketchy on this one, but I'm interested. A limited time job that costs 1000 energy to perform, which can be mastered 25 times for the Thin Ice loot item, a vehicle of (150,100). That's an awful lot of energy for the one loot item....but then again, if you're a serious energy player, that's probably no big deal for you! :0)