The Complete Betrayal Guide | Path of Exile 

Just a note: Aisling slam has been changed to remove a mod and add a new veiled mod. It changes the crafting side of things but the profitability of going for Aisling is still the same!

Honestly, "Power Dad Gaming" is such a strong brand for a channel. Love it.

Your content is insane man, thank you for all the time and effort that went into this, with content creators like you nobody can complain about the game being too complicated, your channel has literally everything you need to know about Path of Exile and the quality is top notch.

I know this is a year old but it truly helped me seeing someone do one from start to finish. Easily the best betrayal video I watched for someone who hasn’t played since 2020. Loved it.

Whenever Sub goes "Hello friends", I feel like all is right in the world.

I’m a dad gamer, I develop a base strat and try to get more advanced as I have a base knowledge of a mechanic. Great video! Very informative

I may be a bit late to this video, but i just wanted to say, after sitting down and watch the whole this through, I not only managed to get my board set up in about 15 maps, but also killed Catarina for the first time. This video was a massive help to me, the boss fight explanation was great and I finally knew what was happening and when (and yes I did die a few times, but she's still dead). This for me is the gold standard for an older expansion guide! ty, ty, ty

Dad gamers unite! Subtractem is the best resource for Poe dad gamers!

Perfect explanation. I came here by an accident and I don't regret it. I don't think I need zizarian's betrayal video anymore. Thank you.

On leaguestart you should try and keep elreon as low rank as possible for a higher chance of him appearing in map to drop his jewellery. You need those to unveil the -mana cost crafts and if you have that craft, his rings also sell for quite a good amount of chaos (only veiled) early.

I know this is 2 years old and some things have changed but this video has made betrayal so easy to understand its crazy no other videos were as easy to digest as this one as a new player. Also your video on crafting did the same. Love this channel!

Never ever watched a 30min+ guide however I watched most of this video. Big thank you!

I really love the approach of practicing curiosity and a humble mind when considering "why did someone more informed make the decision?" That plus a Monty Hall Problem reference is a sub for me, ha.

the way you start the video makes me feel so safe in knowing I'm not alone

Awesome! Just half an hour into this video I've gone from head-shaking dumbfoundery to solid understanding of this mechanic, cheers dude

Just wanna thank you for such an in depth, easy to understand, and the time taken to actually make a playthrough example for this betrayal mechanic.

This video was so perfect that it was enough to make totally confortable with the betrayal mechanic, since I'm new to poe. thanks a lot mate

Perfectly explained, easy to understand. Keep it up man ! love ur videos

I already thought Subtractem was great, but then I learn he's a DotA player too :) Also Harbinger scarabs go for quite a bit, with Winged are nearly 1 ex each (90-100c?). Even if you don't sell them, you're already playing Valdo's Rest so you can swap back and forth between Jun and Juiced Valdo's to mix it up :D

You are amazing. You take this game to a whole new level, aka research-level now. I think I was listening to a professor talking in research institute and I was the pupil studying PhD lmao.

As someone who just started playing the game, your videos are life-savers given the feature creep this game has.

A little late to the party here, but this video was exceptionally helpful. I find your teaching style fits my learning style very well and Im grateful for the long form content. When it comes to PoE content, especially the bigger league mechanics, there is so much complexity and depth. Appreciate your work!

1:22:50 - appreciate the Bo reference! On a more serious note, what a banger of a video, extremely helpful!

I understood the concept but never was able to understand HOW to actually move them around the board. Thanks for actually going into the game and actually showing it in practice. I really enjoyed this video and wish I found it earlier. Thanks!

This is so good! I’ve run quite a bit of betrayal for a couple of leagues now, and I’ve been struggling a bit with the finer details of moving members where I want. This vid has been so helpful, “nature abodes a vacuum” for the win!

Hi Subtractem, love your content, your presentation is always so enjoyable to watch. Just a few corrections regarding your video: It that fled at 3 stars will give 2 pure breach stones, doubling the reward of two stars. He doesn't need to be captain of the safehouse for this to occur. As for waiting for people to show up, i don't think that's necessary, i pretty much one shot everything and a second portal will always turn up straight away if people are going to be joining. This is the priority of those who want to run a slightly optimized strategy: 1. Aisling (3 star in R) - 4-5ex on TFT 2. It that fled (3 star in R) - 2 pure breachstones = 2ex profit 3. Tora (3 star in I) - 1 winged + 1 gilded + 1 polished harbinger scarab = 130c 4. Hillock (3 star in T/F/R) - 1ex on TFT 5. Leo (3 star in R) - Gives you 2 slams, 40-50c per slam on TFT 6. Vorici (3 star in R) - 40 per white socket on TFT Optional strategy to consider if it is easily attainable: 1. Catarina clicks can be sold for 50-60c per click on TFT depending on how strong you are 2. Captain of safehouses can also be sold for about 1ex each on TFT as they are one of the achievements this league

You teached me so much more, than the other guys within their whole content. At the end of this vid, i can say: Finally i understood Betrayal! Thanks so much. Liked & subscribed!

I really love your content. Everything feels down to earth and your explanations never feel overwhelming.

This was great, thank you for taking the time to simplify and explain this strategy. Can't wait to try it next league.

I feel like I'm finally starting to understand some mechanics that I've never tried before thanks to you, so thank you so much for these very informative videos!

It's 2023, and this video is still sooo useful. I'm new to the game and just encountered the Immortal Syndicate for the first time, and your video guide is an absolute lifesaver.

11:38 I thought so. Interrogate = Remove Stars. Execute = Gain Stars. Bargain/Betray = Ignore. Release = No Changes. Variant, look at cheat sheet from Ziz and figure out which you want to Focus and put them in Research? Although, Aisling is usually #1. (31:00 Leveling Strat) 50:00 Lightbulb went off when you said Aisling might not be on the board yet so better to just Bargain. Love how you know your cam is in the way so you drew on top with paint ahahah. Thanks for the guide, very helpful, will reference while practicing.

Coming from 2023, this is amazing ty! I know there’s been atlas changes and more but this actually so helpful!!

I never, ever did Betrayal, I just clicked whatever. Never used Jun missions. The thought of having to deal with such massive, overthought and overcomplicated mechanic made me almost angry, seemed always like a huge waste of time. Today I stoped and watched your video. And then researched a little more, and all the Reddit comments made sense, at last. Seems like I finally understand Betrayal, just by watching your video! Dude, you're doing a marvelous work here. I can see this channel growing fast and strong, led by this chill and positive vibe you give, thank you very much for this!

I really love your content. Im obsessed with Path of Exile but most other streamers post content with the idea that people watching know a lot about the game. Glad I stumbled upon you and your my new favorite PoE content creator.

Thanks. As a returning player from before Betrayal, I found that Syndicate encounters were absolutely the WORST explained legacy mechanic in the game, and unlike the others you don't eventually understand it just by playing it. None of the terms or their possible outcomes (intelligence, rivalries, interrogation, etc) are ever explicitly explained. I was just killing off members without ever doing the safehouse because I didn't know what that was.

What a fantastic effort with the playthrough and pause and reflect idea. Kudos on excellent instruction!

Legit subbed for this - you are the best PoE Professor out there my man.

Hey this video really helped! The full t4 Aisling + Catarina run made everything super clear. Thank you :)

Incredible video, thanks so much! I've tried looking at guides and most people just explain the basic rules of the mechanic. What I need is someone to explain 1) why should I do this at all and 2) how do I evaluate the possible options so I can make decisions quickly without my head exploding, and that's exactly what you've provided!

Great video! Especially the demo part in second half of the video cleared lot of doubts and explained some scenarios I never thought of.

I was today years old when I realized the Mission encounters are directly related to the investigation and who was where. Never really understood Betrayal, this helped so much. Great work.

Dude epic video. Thank you so much for all the work you put into this! Helped understand the whole thing after just ignoring it since release xD

I could have subscribed not long after starting to watch this video, but it was the points you were making at time index 44:13 - 46:00 that inspired me to click "subscribe right then. You have a great way of breaking down your reasons, and though I haven't even watched the remaining part of the video yet where you are going to demonstrate why you make certain choices, I can already tell this is going to be a massively helpful video (the first 45 mins was also helpful!). I look forward to checking out the rest of your content, but this was the FIRST video I landed on from you. What an auspicious start!

as soon as i grok them? you're full of surprises, Mr. Subtractem, i like you, not-a-cockroach Lol :D thanks for another video which i'm just beginning to watch. this league, 3.17 opened up so much content in poe to me, that i had to find some solid educator and i found you. after crafting for newbies i know what to expect here, and now i'm gonna dive in fully. now. thank you!

Way late here but I'll chime in. Longer videos are great. If I don't have time to watch it all at once, that's on me. But I prefer longer videos with lots of explanation and examples versus 10 minute mcsessions where it's assumed we already know a lot. Great content here.

I never really got into Betrayal but plan to use it in the coming league. Thanks for the vid, it helped me alot :)

Hello, like the other comments have said, thank you for the the extremely helpful guide. You've definitely got a gift for teaching, that raw Catarina run from scratch was a brilliant idea! Managed a T4 Aisling + Vorici + Tora in Research and Hillock in Transportation today, feels like I'm getting somewhere 😅

The one thing I didn't know and makes the mechanic all make sense....I didn't realize that removing their stars allows them to be moved....things will be much easier now. Thank you.

This is excellent, a great walkthrough of how to learn the mechanic. After focusing on getting one syndicate member to max and understanding that, it feels like it's easier to target farm other specific things. For example, I love blight so getting blight scarabs is a good secondary goal with my syndicates.

Insanely good guide. Me snd my friend are lvl 96 and we haven't done any betryal at all but we decided to watch this guide and almost has a mastermind available with aisling rank 3 in a few hours

As a PGD myself, I already had a strategy dialed in from previous leagues. But the change to Aisling completely changes the strategy and actually makes Betrayal MUCH easier. Thanks so much for pointing this out. I did like the strategy of cycling ITF and one other (Tora, Leo, Vorici) in Research but it was a lot tougher to setup than just moving Aisling into R and then 3* and run MM. I hope this strat sticks around for next league.

Thank you so much man! Oh my god, so many videos and this is the best one... you cant learn all of this in like 8min videos, i got a beer, some chips and watched it all xd

I watched it till end and helped me understand it. Thanks!

Great showcase of the mechanic, thank you!

Thanks for the info Sub. I've always been a bit meh towards Betrayal. If they end up in a map, I'll do it, but other than that, never really gone out of my way to get them done. After seeing this, i might just try in 3.15 assuming nothing major changes.

Thank you so much, i feel like i have at least an idea of what to do now :)

this channel is gold!!! no joke! best break down ever.

This video is a perfect breakdown for what most 'casual' power gamers want to understand, want to know. Figuring out the big value and how to maximize that while they play the game for 'fun'. I may not farm Betrayal specifically but I'm now armed to ensure that when I interact with Betrayal I don't feel lost. Knowing the simple mechanics and what's valuable lets me cut through the chaff. Thanks, Sub!

Love this content. Such a big help. Great work!

Ohhhhh so this is how it works 😂. I was just randomly clicking stuff when I found these. Good video

Best betrayal guide. I learned quite a few things

Thank you for making this great instructional video. The other thing is... thank you for making it as long as it needed to be to completely and thoroughly convey your thoughts and instructions! Too many content creators making short videos because they think this is a prevailing metric youtube displays as to what people want...not true! Most subscribers don't care. We want as long as it needs to be. If it's too long we will come back and finish it later if we can't watch it one sitting. Rushed content is terrible to watch imo, so thank you for not doing that. :)

Thanks for this, hoping to finally do betrayal stuff in 3.16.

Best Betrayal guide ever! Thanks a lot

"The tier four Aisling crafting bench reward that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier."

This guide is so good you could cut in the new Atlas passives stuff over the old Maven Atlas.

I love the format and I am a huge fan of your content. There are a lot of little gaps in information that content creators expect viewers to know, which often leads to frustration. This video, although long, eliminates so many of those nuances with Betrayal. Greatly appreciated from another Dad Gamer. Quick question though, how do you actually sell the Aisling’s veiled modifier? I don’t understand the process i.e. do you spam chat, go to a specific website, take money up front to avoid getting scammed etc.

To anybody coming here after March 2024, be aware that while the mechanics are the same, the drops and best masters for betrayal and completely changed

Once again, thank you. You helped me a lot. From "wtf is happening" to "oh" in 1 hour. The video It's kinda outdated but the core of the league mechanic stills the same, the only thing that could be nice to add is the atlas tree so you can sustain Jun's missions and do it more effectively. Over all, you gave me the confidence of knowing what to do which i really appreciate over everything else in PoE

I finally get it. I can finally finish my weapon in SSF. Thank you!

I still find it crazy to this day that our Masters betrayed us ;_;

Excellent content, dude; thank you.

With the new Atlas passive tree in 3.17, we get the "effective leader" passive that guarantees the leader to show up. Will that affect the current strategy for Betrayal now? You know what, I love this video, you should probably make another video demonstrating how we can utilize the new atlas tree to run Betrayal. Don't have to go through all the nitty details here, just need to address the new changes.

Best boss fight breakdown of Cat I've seen so far. Got powned twice, and said "F-it" lol Going to give it another go next league. Cheers!

Great video, still learning the mechanic. For those who are intimidated by betrayal, you can get quite a benefit from just doing betrayal fights in maps and unveil from jun, ignoring the rest of the mechanics. Unveiling will unlock new crafting recipes, which can be extremely helpful. Obviously, that won't maximize rewards, but it will be much better than just ignoring it.

It that Fled doesnt need to be Safehouse Leader to have 2 chances on the upgrade breachstone, she just needs to be t4

This video just improved my strategy by a lot. My tier list pretty much looked like yours, but I love your approach to getting the right people/person in the right area quicker. I also spent too much time getting a relevant person in leadership for the double bench (Mostly IT that fled) and it seems with this strat its probably just quicker to hit Catarina more often instead.. On a side note. (Referring to 49:10 of the video). I'm pretty sure that Research and Intervention always "proc" and there is a 50/50 split between Transport and Fortification for the third.

Thanks for taking the time to do this video. Requires a "master" degree to understand Betrayal, but holy shit this is like the doorway to understanding Quantum Mechanics. I read many guides but have vague idea so never care about Jun missions, even though this league everyone basically just did Aisling. The demo tutorial style really helps. One thing I would like to point out is that in your lecture part, you stressed that INTERROGATE and EXECUTE are the most important but in the demo (map), you actually selected a lot of BARGAIN, so perhaps BARGAIN is also important? Anyway, chances are Aisling will be nerfed next league.

the best betrayal teacher in the yt ty :D

3.17 here, but still: even though it's very long, it's very good and detailed - to fully understand the basics and some tipps and tricks this vid helps A LOT. Even though i'm quite familiar with Betrayel i still learned a thing or two. I really like Betrayel Content, but there are few downsides you have to consider: 1) u have to learn not only the mechanics that are not that complicated once u understand the basics, but you also have to learn how to deal/sell with/on TFT Discord. As you mentioned this is the only way, at least as far as i know, how to make currency out of this mechanic (except for crafting yourself and selling the stuff). 2) if you don't do a "Reserved"-Sell, there has to be ppl online on that time you killed Catharina, since you can't "store" those safehouse options - you have to sell it right away and thus have to search for ppl who are willing to pay. Maybe there is a trade-chat-channel in POE dedicated for Betrayel Stuff, i don't know - i always sell those on TFT. And one of the problems with TFT selling is, you have to level up your "trust-ranking", otherwise ppl will hesitate to pay a not-yet-trusted member some exalts or trading their items with you... So u either have to set low prices to attract buyers or wait longer. 3) Make sure u have a build that can quite easy kill catharina or at least be sure not to die, 'cuz u will lose a portal and you need portals for selling the betrayel mechanic stuff like Aisling's Veil Option. If you just sell Aisling one portal is enough, but if you also sell Vorici (white sockets), Leo (exalt slam), Hillock (Quality Craft) and Tora (GEM XP) u need more portals left (that's quite min-max-version, i know, but still).

I hope GGG eventually turns Aisling veiled mod slam into an itemized currency to trade like "Veiled Exalted Orb" or something like that.

Thank you very much, i think i understand this mechanic for the first time now! You said that you removed the crafted modifiers from your boots. How did you do that? Is that an option which the syndicate crafting bench itself offers?

your content is goated man

thx for explaining boss fight... very helpful :)

Very good video learned lot of stuff here

Man dude youre seriously the best poe youtuber

excellent content (like always) ! From what I understood, the cherry on the cake is the Betrayal-board showing Aisling with level 4 and then running Research in order to get her craft, right? Or was this the craft after killing caterina the first time? I am confused.

I'm a simple man, I see Subtractem video, I click

You earned a subscriber here. nice video. Can you give a chart for the league start scenario, Aisling wont be valuable in the early weeks.

“I like simplifying things” videos 1:30 long. My body is ready.

holy shit i love you, best guide ever.

Good job man

Been loving your channel, just finished this video. Do you think this is still worth it with the aisling nerf?

Came for the lesson, leaving with wisdom. Any chance I could find out what the build/mtx for that rainbow arrow explosion was?

No matter how many times i take Katarina out she always makes it back to the head of the syndicate. At this point im ready to just join her.

Hey, love the video! I know it is late in the league but I decided to actually learn Syndicate. Would you say that most of the information here hasn't changed coming to 3.21?

Sick Guide

How did you get so many Jun runs in your map device? I only have 1-2 available. Is there any tip to get more?

Greetings, is using kalandra's craft prophecy still worth it using while fightning catarina to unlock her veiled mods or is there another way??