Catarina, Master of Undeath

Catarina, Master of Undeath is the leader and Mastermind of the Immortal Syndicate. She was introduced during the War of the Atlas Expansion in Patch 3.5 Betrayal League. With the help of Jun Ortoi, you have to investigate the Immortal Syndicate, manipulate their ranks, reveal the identities of their members and uncover their safehouses to take down their mastermind.

Before you can take her on, you have to work your way trough the Immortal Syndicate. The Syndicate has four divisions, each with its own ambition: Fortification, Transportation, Research and Intervention. With the League Mechanic Betrayal active in your Map, you encounter members of the Immortal Syndicate. Upon investigating, you need to bargain, execute, interrogate or even induce them to betray each other to find out, who the leaders and the mastermind is. Once the Mastermind is revealed, you can open portals to the Mastermind's Lair and fight Catarina, Master of Undeath.

Loot Table

In addition to regular loot, Catarina, Master of Undeath has the following boss-specific drops:

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

Additional drops:

• Veiled Orb
• Nook's Crown
• Random Veiled "Catarina's" Items

NOTE: The zone/area level always matches the highest level of safehouse you have completed!

Skills Breakdown

Catarina attacks you at melee range with her scythe, dealing Physical Damage.

Catarina unleashes a large slam in front of her. After a short delay, the slam splits into 4 directions from the initial area, which deals Physical Damage.

Catarina releases a soul projectile towards your location, which explodes on impact. This ability deals Physical and Fire Damage.

Catarina unleashes a volley of soul mortars, exploding on impact.

Catarina summons a massive spirit skull that bites in front of it.

Catarina summons minions to aid her in battle.

After you defeat her in the The Forbidden Vault, you have to make your way trough the The Unearthed Hideout to reach the The Sculpture Garden where phase 2 begins.

Catarina unleashes a volley of Carpet Mortars that explode after a short delay.

Catarina summons a horde of reaper minions. These minions get activated after a short delay by Catarina's Shockwave. Once active, you can step on the minions to make them disappear before they become alive after 10 seconds. When the timer passed, the reaper minions become alive and hunt you down, exploding on impact.

Catarina slashes in front of her with her scythe, dealing Physical Damage.

Catarina casts Spirit Bombs on the target, dealing Physical and Fire Damage.

Based on your Syndicate Board, Catarina revives a Syndicate Member to aid her in Battle along side other minions and monsters.

A massive Totem is placed at the center of the Sculpture Garden. It casts a Shockwave clock-wise in each corridor of the garden.

There are 4 Totems placed around the Sculpture Garden. While one of them is active, she becomes invulnerable. In order to break it, you have to soak the totems life until it breaks.

Catarina teleports to your location and slams the ground after a short delay, dealing massive amounts of damage. She can also teleport multiple times in quick succession before slamming the ground.

The Mastermind's Lair

Once you have fully investigated the Immortal Syndicate, you can open portals to the Mastermind's Lair by talking to Jun in your Hideout.

The Encounter is split in to 3 Phases:

• Phase 1 - The Forbidden Vault
• Phase 2 - The Unearthed Hideout
• Phase 3 - The Sculpture Garden

Phases

Phase 1 - The Forbidden Vault

Phase 2 - The Unearthed Hideout

Phase 3 - The Sculpture Garden

Once you enter the Portal to the Masterminds Lair, you find yourself inn the Forbidden Vault, where Catarina awaits you.

In the start, Catarina won't use her entire toolkit but proceeds to do so the further her HP drops. In Phase 1, she uses default melee attacks, soul mortar's and barrages and summons minions that aid her in battle. Once she lost a certain percentage of her HP, she becomes invulnerable and escapes.

If you want to learn more about his abilities, make sure to check out the skills breakdown section.

Follow Catarina trough her Portal and fight your way trough the Unearthed Hideout. This Map-like Zone is filled with Monsters and rewards 200% additional Experience.

Once you reach the end of the zone, you find a portal to the Sculpture Garden where Phase 3 of the encounter begins.

This is the final and last phase, but also the hardest by far. You have to fight Catarina, her Syndicate Members, Monster and deal with invulnerability totems while also be aware of the centered totem at once.

She now uses her entire toolkit with quite some lethal abilities like the reaper slam. If you want to learn more about his abilities, make sure to check out the skills breakdown section.

The fight alternates between Boss Phase and Syndicate/Add Phase. Based on her HP-Pool, she becomes un-targetable and revive a Syndicate Member with a horde of Monsters. The goal is to defeat all of them to activate the invulnerability totem at the current corner. Once that is achieved, you have to stand next to the totem to soak its energy and destroy it, making Catarina vulnerable again. Make sure to watch out for the Shockwave the centered Totem releases into every corridor clock-wise.

This Totem Phase has to be repeated 4 times before you can finally kill the Mastermind and collect the treasures within the Vault.

Atlas Passive Tree

The newly revamped Atlas Passive Tree provides you with additional ways to speed up your progression towards safehouses and the mastermind, enhance the loot options of Syndicate encounters, upgrading their ranks and increase the chances of getting Jun Missions. Catarina herself gains no perks from the Atlas Passive Tree but can still be made more valuable due to upgrading the Leaders Safehouses.

Notables

• Obsessed with Vengeance
• Bribery
• Effective Leadership
• Test of Loyalty
• Pillage and Plunder
• Intelligence Gathering

Nodes

• Betrayal Mission Chance
• Betrayal Veiled Item Chance
• Betrayal Syndicate Reinforcement Chance

Summary

• Catarina, Master of Undeath is the leader and mastermind of the Immortal Syndicate.
• You have to investigate the Syndicate Members in order to reveal and unlock the mastermind encounter.
• The zone/area level always matches the highest level of safehouse you have completed.
• The Mastermind encounter is split into 3 Phases:
  • Phase 1 - The Forbidden Vault
  • Phase 2 - The Unearthed Hideout
  • Phase 3 - The Sculpture Garden
• Start attacking in the Forbidden Vault until she flees to the Sculpture Garden.
• The Unearthed Hideout is a Map-like Zone that rewards additional experience and leads to the Sculpture Garden.
• In the last Zone, pay attention to the centered totem that releases shockwaves into the corridors, clock-wise.
• Deactivate the invulnerability totems on each corner after fighting the revived Syndicate Member and the Monsters.
• After destroying all 4 totems, you can finally defeat Catarina and gather all the treasures of the Vault.

Credits

Written by mbXtreme
Reviewed by TriPolarBear, Facefoot