Path of Exile Betrayal - Immortal Syndicate FULL GUIDE [UPDATED] 

We updated our Betrayal guide, in our new style of video! Let us know how you like it, we're looking to make more of these more often. BETRAYAL CHEAT SHEET: i.imgur.com/M1jnhFh.png

At 6:04 I want to clarify: Catarina promotes ALL syndicate members that are assigned to a job by one rank, not just the leaders of each job.

One important thing you didn't talk about is removing members to get others. People who hear about gravicious probably want to know how to get him

What you said at 3:02 is actually incorrect. When you interrogate a member, you get intelligence for the encounter in which they appeared. Let's say a Fortification member showed up in a Research encounter. If you interrogate them, you get Research intelligence. This is one of the most important ways to get intelligence for the safehouse you need without scuffing the levels of the members you want to keep at 3 stars.

Tip: Last guy always offers a bargain, so the order you interrogate matters. So if there's someone you want to promote/execute, always do that first etc.

This is brilliant thanks Ziz and team for your time and efforts on this informative and interesting video. Cheers.

Dude THANK YOU. Sancutm was my first league and I realized most of my enchants I got from the Jun missions unveiling. The whole "execute, bargain, release"-thing....I read all I could ingame but ended up executing the entire Syndicate many times daily. Can't wait to actually try it out next season

The world first video that explains betrayal in less than 1 hour. Very well done, thanks a lot!

Ziz is a great content creator for new players, but i always had this critizice about his explanation videos - he can't make coherent toughts he would jump from basic info then complex info then basic info without ilustrations, very hard to follow. BUT THIS VIDEO explained the basics first kept the more complex ones to later, ilustrated what he was narrating, in summary looked very professional with a reviewed script.

Ziz! I love the new style of the video !!! It's easy to follow and to learn.

I never payed much attention to Betrayal, now you made me excited about it - thanks!

My man. Thanks for the follow up vid on this complicated but very fun game mechanic.

My favorite episodes of yours are the "Everything explained" videos. Could you perhaps this season, do something along those lines for Syndicate? I know the setup of the Syndicate Members is dependent on what you're going for, but a follow up with detail of an example of your thinking process would be super helpful. (On the editing side, you could just mark each time you encounter the Syndicate, then cut them together for one video)

Well done, Ziz. I think I might actually understand Betrayal now. Can't wait to start Crucible!

im new to poe and watch all your guides. i have no clue what i just watched and dont understand any of it xD

Might actually go and spec Betreyal next league because of this ! Thanks ziz :D

Thank you so Much Ziz. I like Betrayal but I just did it in the latest league and felt cheated because of how the syndicate worked. I'm glad to find your recap and explanation of Betrayal.

The updated graphic is awesome and the production quality is high, but I feel like this video is missing some of the building blocks needed in a "FULL GUIDE" - though this is a great short primer for players who are nervous about trying it. The big chunk of info that I don't already know and feel is missing is how map level impacts things now. It feels like I end up with fewer reinforcements on lower level maps, but do I really? Does it change the safehouse rewards? Which ones and how much? I think it has some kind of impact because of leagues having a "defeat Caterina in an area level of at least X" challenge, but I don't know WHAT impact it has or if it can be manipulated in any useful way. If someone knows, please drop a comment for me. If you're completely new to Betrayal, be aware that this is giving a very broad overview, and that there a bunch of individual details and tips that are important to know. Off of the top of my head and in no particular order: 1. You might not have a specific syndicate member at all (you can reroll which ones you have by either beating the Mastermind, or you can reroll one member using a rare 3rd option on defeated members with the effect of "X is removed from the syndicate"). 2. Higher rank interrogations increase the intelligence gained. 3. I have heard that rivalries are more likely to cause reinforcements than friends (though I haven't seen any numbers about how much). 4. Atlas passives make a substantial impact, especially the +1 additional rank on execution. 5. Defeating the first syndicate member(s) to appear in an encounter after all of the others can help if your DPS is low, because the other members will run away after you finish off the originals (you can also kill the originals first in a laboratory if you're worried you're going to run out of time, so you don't fail the lab). 6. You can choose to not run a safehouse so you don't downrank important people, and your intelligence with that division will drop back to lower intelligence after about 3 other maps with the syndicate (although leaving a safehouse uncompleted makes that event not show up as an encounter until it drops back down). 7. Killing the Mastermind randomizes the whole board's members and ranks, but leaves your division intelligence unchanged. 8. Getting division leaders as reinforcements is less likely than other members, so you might not want to have the person you're trying to rank up as the leader. 9. The crafting bench gives worse versions of the mod than unveiling does. 10. You can slow down your kills to get more reinforcements sometimes, though this does not always happen and always has a limit.

Honestly this is just an amazing video! I feel like I can now actually use betrayal for the first time without just randomly clicking and praying

Commented recently on your stream this video idea. Thank you mate

Ziz finally back to making mechanics tutorial! Pls make more updated how-to contents like this especially now that some of the mechanics have been updated/nerfed or changed.

Love these full guide videos thank you ziz

IIRC rivals and allies that appear at encounter are rolled separately so for maximization of appearances it's better to have both rivalries and friendships on the board.

Great one, ziz! Definitely a much needed update.

Awesome video! Hope we get more of these!

Skryah!!!! This video is nuts in terms of production value!

hey ziz, I just wanted to give you a big thanks for all the content for this league. And in particular, this video. I'm a PoE noob with 500h. Last time I played was Ultimatum 3.14. So coming back to the game there was so many new things, like the fella "Rog" etc that I initially just put in a corner to rot until I watched your videos. When it comes to Betrayal, I'll be honest... for 490h of PoE I was just clicking random buttons, "uuh execute, uuh interrogate, I have no idea what I'm doing". This video finally made it click, and I'm currently specced into Betrayal because I enjoy it and I'm chasing some rewards. I just got the Hillock quality while targetting that. I got Vorici soon ready to go. There is a plan and a system and I'm absolutely loving it, some really powerful rewards too. To add to that, I am playing your EA champ, you have helped tremendously to derust and fully enjoy POE again. Thanks! I dropped by the other day to drop a prime sub on you as a thanks. Thanks for holding my hand! :)

Betrayal is always confusing me. Usually I just rank up everyone, try to improve relations and rivalries and aim to get my reveal unlocks and as many Catarina rewards/unlocks as I can. Moving the members around to get a "perfect" setup takes way too much time when I try to do it, as I never get the options I need. Regarding the video: a section covering the Betrayal Atlas nodes would have been a nice addition.

THANK you for this!!!

Hey! Sweet video. Great for getting the basics. That said, I did want to point out that your video says 'certain members' have specific unveils. I feel like it would be better to point out 'all' members have a specific unique unveil based off the items they drop. Second, I think it's important to mention all people get their rank bumped by one, meaning you can get full factions that give all T4 rewards. Lastly, I think mentioning the atlas passive that allows you to get an extra rank per execute would have been really good, as this vastly expedites safe houses. Personally, syndicate borderline feels unplayable without it.

can you make advanced guides aswell? would love to know how to optimise the board to get masterminds from foothills asap

How fascinating. League dropped 4 years ago but full guide has been released just now. Finally more than 10+- people in tft can understand what to do with them 😁

I play since beta and i have to say, Ziz content is always top notch !

Oh nice dude, i know a bit but i for sure want to learn more.

ty for the amazing video

I liked how short the explanation was. I got some of it now! 2 weeks in in PoE :D

Betrayal was my first league and is still one of my favorite mechanics. I wish this guide would have touched on removing members from the board completely though. Even though I do some amount of Betrayal each league, even I don't know the most efficient way to, for example, remove Guff entirely if someone like Vorici isn't on my board. Usually I just stack as many red lines as possible and keep the non-desired person at 0-1 stars and hope I just get lucky with a remove option, but sometimes it can takes dozens of Jun missions

Wow strange that I just started learning Betrayal mechanic today and Ziz uploaded a the best overall guide😳 coincidence? I think not!🤯

thanks for information

Your getting better at thesr videos. I was expecting a minimum if 30 minutes to explain something as complex as this.

good info thanks

I like this new style of video.

Something I'd like to ask is, is my goal to get all members to rank 3 in each division prior to fighting Katarina? If possible, is it worth it to continue betrayal without killing her until i'm ready? As in all 4 people at rank 3. I'd love some input on the general/optimal strategy, like If I have no one good on the board what is my plan. If I have 2/4 good, what's the plan then, etc. Some examples would've been nice for a "FULL GUIDE" 10 minutes for a complex mechanic seems surface level and more of a general guide.

Okay awesome video but I still have one question, what/how is the quickest way to keep spawning Catarinas?

One useful tip : If you have Awakened PoE trade running, and you press shift+space, you have access to the betrayal sheet.

How do I know which member would take place after their leader get safehoused? At first I though it depends on relationship with their leader but it is not, when I kill their leader they just lose all rank and fell off the hierarchy.

Still waiting on that Catarina guide. She's destroyed me twice now.

Love you ❤️

still confused. What do i do to get the most unveiled drops?

It might make sense to him what he says, but it actually feels like he just reads from a paper and doesnt really explain anything... He says imprisoning will remove them from their division but what are divisions for?

loved the video and the editing style but i think this is a full INTRODUCTION to betrayal.. i suggest making a part 2 maybe, where you explain how to move syndicates around, order of handeling them in an encounter, ways to increase intelligence in a house without ruining the member's ranks and so on, i think putting full guide on the title is incorrect and partly misleading.

Also, in my experience, 1 turn means 1 syndicate encounter, and not 1 map with syndicate encounters. That means the board gets "moved" by 3 turns per map (that has 3 encounters). Am I right?

would be great to see a guide on Incursions, not to explain the mechanic but to explain why its even still in the game beyond double corrupts.

the fact that the game expects you to get these mechanics without consulting youtube or the fandom wiki is ridiculous. I still only sort of get it after this video. The fact that there's another video about it more than one and a half hours in length says a lot. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING

Such an amazing league mechanic

This is it, this is the LAST time I try to figure this mechanic out, if it doesn't go well I always have TFT. Would love to make my own White sockets with Vorici, or make a few Pure Chayulas on my own. This mechanic just doesn't sit well with me. TBH this will be the 3rd maybe 4th time I've sat down and put my mind to it.

How do you even keep track of your builds over the years and do you make a new character each season? Or do you keep playing standard. I’m new and I want to know the flow and loop for this game. Do you play leagues and then once they become standard you can share standard items with standard characters but what do most people do? Just make a new character every 3 months? What do you do with the standard characters? Store them?

Mastermind item drop pool somewhere ? What ilvl for what uniques ?

Whats up Ziz? Just commenting to feed the numbers. See you at exilecon!

What is the most efficient strategy to rush to Catarina?

So just like my many annoyances with everything PoE... How do you start these? Does it happen normally? Is it all Endgame content? I have the contracts thing unlocked and am working through Act 8 or 9 right now.

I luv U ZIZ

In Affliction my thing was I didn't understand any of these... in Necropolis I tried making my own build. That was a mistake apparently

Ziz what is the new accent in your voice

I wish I had this when I started playing. took me way too long to understand this

best feeling is to get the diadem in your first try with the bis unveil in ssf. you can put in effort to gain a lot in return but I just choose to allocate the "10 intelligence on completion" node for catarina only.

where can you go in the campaign to farm betrayal? is that not a thing anymore*?

This is all good info, but i have a different issue, i had the initial encounter for this, but nothing ever after, and Jun provides no dialogue.. my investigation has been stuck with Hillock and Leo, two turns left for a couple weeks now... I'm not sure what I'm missing..

I appreciate the info but I'm not going to run betrayal unless it is the first couple weeks of the league. I've spent an hour trying to sell an aisling for 1 div less than its worth before during peak hours and just don't think it is worth it after all the big crafts of the league are done

My friend, my skills have stopped causing any damage, and it does not kill any enemy, even if it is very weak. It has no effect on it. What should I do and what is this

You mention unequipping a syndicate characters items, as they are very powerful...how do you do that?

I wish someone made a guide (or explained to me) how to farm Catarina as fast and easy as possible to get my own Diadem. I really only care about getting some crafts like -mana cost and the Diadem early on the league but this all feels so very confusing.

Which uniques Catarina drops on ruthless, where we dont get veiled items?

Sucks that Aisling reward got nerfed

I'm always fail on research encounter, tips?

Can you continue to rank up leaders if the safehouse is already unlocked?

clear as mud

bro i just wanna figure out how to play the threads mini game. i still dont know ;(

still cant understand this things,but thank you for the explanation XD.

Thx Ziz and team! now watch ggg rework the syndicate in 3.21 😂

i wouldnt call this a guide but a review. left out most tips and tricks you mentioned in your old guide like the order of interrogation mattering as you cant execute the last guy

"they'll have zero stars and start jumping between safe houses."

I’ve watched this four times now and I still have no fucking clue how it works

i been trying to get a trigger wand for the last 9 hours lol

i did not have "ziz thoroughly explaining a mechanic from 5 years ago" on my 2023 bingo

how we can get more Jun missions? after they are finished from device.

I have never interacted with this league much cause of how confusing it is lol

How do you make members leave the board so for example if Aisling isnt in the board, you want pointless members to leave so that she has a chance to join the board? Whats a sure way to make that happen?

0:06 jumpscare ziz

Most insane game mechanic lol

What is the bet it gets changed in 3.21?

Expedition please

I did not understand. Probably I would push the random buttons until I start fighing some bosses or something.

Yea very complex and requires a side spreadsheet, but def my favorite mechanic

Lmao did the game actually explain any of this in great detail like this video Holy shiii

2:41 was that a failed attempt to blur out the blood lmao?

watched this whole thing still have no fucking clue what to do with this

watched the video and still have no idea what to do :(

It seems like BETRAYAL is getting reworked in 3.21!!

Really needed that lol , ggg should pay you montly game would be unplayable for new players withouth your content