Betrayal Farming Guide

This guide teaches you the basics of farming Betrayal as well as how to maximize your rewards and profitability.

Betrayal is part of the Masters system which means that that to encounter it in your map it has to contain Jun. Adding her to your map spawns 3 Immortal Syndicate encounters. Both Research and Intervention always spawn and the third encounter is either Transportation or Fortification. The Immortal Syndicate attacks players in unique ways for each encounter.

After each encounter you are presented with two choices for each defeated Syndicate member. Your job is to gather intelligence about the safehouses locations, move members to desired safehouses and rank them up by executing them.

Gathering enough information about the safehouse location gives you an opportunity to attack it. Defeating Syndicate members in the safehouse grants you rewards depending on the defeated members, their rank and the safehouse type. It also progresses your investigation against the Syndicate's ultimate boss: The Mastermind.

Mechanics

When farming Betrayal there are a number of key mechanics to watch out for to ensure you're achieving the maximum rewards.

Syndicate Member - the Syndicate roster consists of 14 out of 17 possible members. Each member is unique and after being defeated offers you 2 choices.

Here is a list of possible options:

• Interrogate - Always available as one of the two options, this reduces the member's rank by 1 and provides intelligence towards the safehouse over 3 turns.
• Execute - Increases the member's rank by 1. Only possible as an option if there is an other member witnessing the execution.
• Bargain - Offers one of the possible outcomes: drop currency or veiled items, gain safehouse intelligence, member leaves the Immortal Syndicate or switches divisions with other member. The most unique outcome of a bargain is recruit a member to a division and become trusted with them. Trusted relationship between members makes them show up together during an encounter more often.
• Betray - Only possible if there are 2 members defeated after the encounter that are not already Rivals, this turns them into Rivals. Becoming Rivals makes them show up together during an encounter more often. Some of the possible outcomes of this option are: steal ranks from another member, gain intelligence on another division, remove a member from the Syndicate.

Safehouse - Once you fill intelligence bar of the division's safehouse to 100% you can enter it. At the end of it you encounter the leader of that safehouse accompanied by other members of that division. Once defeated the leader is imprisoned for 3 turns granting intelligence about Mastermind's safehouse and the reward room door is unlocked. Each member of that division grants their own special reward room type and value of the rewards increases with their rank.

Mastermind - the Ultimate boss of Immortal Syndicate. To encounter it you have to fill it's safehouse location intelligence bar to 100%. After defeat it drops 1 of the boss specific unique items, veiled items and scarabs. The most important reward is an access to all of the Syndicate members reward rooms with their rank being increased by 1 which is the only way to access rank 4 reward rooms. Additionally it is the only source of Veiled Orbs. After defeating the Mastermind the whole investigation board is reset with an exception of safehouses intelligence bar progress.

Veiled Items - Veiled items have a chance to drop from any Syndicate member. They always have 1 "hidden" modifier. In order to reveal it talk to Jun so she can Unveil it. During this process you choose 1 option out of the 3 presented modifiers to keep. This also unlocks a weaker version of the modifier as a crafting option at your crafting bench.

How To Run It

The most efficient way to farm Betrayal is to complete as many of the Syndicate encounters per hour as you can, because most of the rewards come from Safehouses and the Mastermind.

Your number one goal when progressing the Betrayal board is to reach 100% intelligence towards the Mastermind safehouse and enter it while there are as many rank 3 Syndicate members as possible in desired divisions.

Step 1 - Run the map normally until you encounter the first Syndicate encounter.
Step 2 - Defeat all Syndicate members in that encounter.
Step 3 - Check all of the choices presented to you for all members.
Step 4 - Decide what to do with each defeated Syndicate member.
Step 5 - Find remaining the Syndicate encounters.
Step 5 - Repeat this in the next map.
Step 6 - Reach 100% intelligence towards any safehouse.
Step 7 - Clear the safehouse. Repeat Step 6 and 7 until Mastermind Safehouse Intelligence reaches 100%.
Step 10 - Rank up as many desired Syndicate members to rank 3.
Step 11 - Enter the Mastermind safehouse and reap the rewards!

Atlas Passives

Atlas passives are a massive boost to Betrayal and understanding which ones are worth taking is essential, refer to our review below.

Scaling Loot

Multipliers

Betrayal has very limited options when it comes to scaling and investing into the mechanic. Increased Item Quantity, Item Rarity, and Pack Sizes do not scale it's rewards. There are also no Scarabs and Kirac Modifiers that that increase Betrayal rewards.

Scarabs

Betrayal Scarab - Guarantees that the map contains Jun. This can save you some points on the Atlas Passive Tree but generally is not useful.

Betrayal Scarab of Intelligence - Grants 150% Increased Intelligence gained from Immortal Syndicate targets which lets you progress towards Safehouses much faster. Keep in mind that It only works for regular Safehouses, not for the Mastermind Safehouse.

Betrayal Scarab of Reinforcements - If you encounter a single Syndicate Member you cannot execute it to increase its rank. This scarabs greatly increases the chance that the Syndicate Members are accompanied by the reinforcements which significantly ramps up your progression.

Map Choice

For maximum efficiency run Betrayal on maps that are fast for your build. Completing more encounters is the best way to enter more safehouses over a play session.

Selling Your Loot

Here are the drops you can expect to acquire while farming Betrayal, as well as some advice on how to sell them effectively and quickly. Follow our Bulk Selling guide to learn more.

Rank 4 Syndicate Members

The only way to gain access to rank 4 Syndicate members rewards is to rank them up to rank 3 and defeat the Mastermind which gives access to reward rooms of all Syndicate members on the entire investigation board with the rank increased by 1.

Here is a list of most profitable Syndicate members in specific safehouses:

Transportation:

• Gravicious - Full Stack of Divination Cards
• Hillock - Essence Scarabs

Fortification:

• Hillock - Trapped Stash of Scarabs

Research:

• Aisling - Beyond Scarabs
• Vorici - Harvest Scarabs
• Hillock - Anarchy Scarabs
• Jorgin - Ritual Scarabs
• Tora - Crafting Bench that adds experience to a Gem. Best used on Awakened or Exceptional Gem
• Janus - Chest that contains random Expedition Currency

Intervention:

• Gravicious - Divination Scarabs
• Haku - Ambush Scarabs
• Janus - Expedition Scarabs
• Elreon - Reliquary Scarabs
• Tora - Harbinger Scarabs
• Vagan - Legion Scarabs
• Hillock - Abyss Scarabs
• Leo - Ultimatum Scarabs
• Rin - Cartography Scarabs
• Jorgin - Bestiary Scarabs
• It That Fled - Breach Scarabs
• Aisling - Torment Scarabs
• Cameria - Sulphite Scarabs
• Vorici - Delirium Scarab
• Riker - Blight Scarab
• Korell - Influencing Scarabs
• Guff - Incursion Scarabs

Rank 3 Syndicate Members

Main goal when entering safehouses is to generate intelligence towards the Mastermind safehouse so obtaining loot from them is only a secondary objective. However scarabs dropped from safehouse can still grant you some additional profit.

Transportation:

• Gravicious - Full Stack of Divination Cards
• Hillock - Essence Scarabs

Fortification:

• Hillock - Trapped Stash of Scarabs
• Janus - Domination Scarabs

Research:

• Aisling - Beyond Scarabs
• Vorici - Harvest Scarabs
• Hillock - Anarchy Scarabs
• Jorgin - Ritual Scarabs
• Tora - Crafting Bench that adds experience to a Gem. Best used on Awakened or Exceptional Gem
• Janus - Chest that contains random Expedition Currency

Intervention:

• Gravicious - Divination Scarabs
• Haku - Ambush Scarabs
• Janus - Expedition Scarabs
• Elreon - Reliquary Scarabs
• Tora - Harbinger Scarabs
• Vagan - Legion Scarabs
• Hillock - Abyss Scarabs
• Leo - Ultimatum Scarabs
• Rin - Cartography Scarabs
• Jorgin - Bestiary Scarabs
• It That Fled - Breach Scarabs
• Aisling - Torment Scarabs
• Cameria - Sulphite Scarabs
• Vorici - Delirium Scarab
• Riker - Blight Scarab
• Korell - Influencing Scarabs
• Guff - Incursion Scarabs

Veiled Items

While farming Betrayal you accumulate a lot of veiled items that have a chance to drop from any Syndicate member and can be a good source of additional income especially at the league start.

Every Syndicate member has a chance to drop an item with a Veiled modifier obtainable only from that specific member. These are recognizable by holding the Advanced Item Description hotkey.

Once you unveil a modifier you can craft it at the Crafting Bench for other people for a fee.

The Mastermind

Defeating the Mastermind not only unlocks access to reward rooms but also drops some valuable loot.

The most important drop from Mastermind is called Veiled Orb which is used in many high end crafting projects.

It always drops one of the unique items with an unveiled modifier:

• Cinderswallow Urn
• The Devouring Diadem
• Cane of Kulemak
• Bitterbind Point
• The Queen's Hunger

Additionally the Mastermind also drops some Scarabs and items with Veiled modifiers available only from this boss.

Filtering

Veiled Items - Common veiled items are very cheap and annoying to sell so consider hiding them once you unveil all modifiers one time. Syndicate members specific veiled items such as Elreon Jewelry can generate a lot of profit especially at the League start.

Credits

Written by Zen_M.
Reviewed by Tenkiei