Syndicate (Betrayal)

Verified for 3.29

Click a cell to mark it: Bad → Good → Great → clear. Marks are kept in this browser.

transportation
fortification
research
intervention
Aisling
Vorici
Vagan
Hillock
Leo
It That Fled
Rin
Gravicius
Haku
Elreon
Tora
Guff
Janus
Jorgin
Korell
Cameria
Riker

Cell notes

  1. 1 Vagan · transportation: Per the 3.29 patch notes; poedb still shows Incubators.
  2. 2 Vagan · fortification: Not in Ruthless.
  3. 3 Jorgin · research: Now regular currency instead of Tainted.

The price is the median poe.ninja price of one scarab of the family (the range is in the cell tooltip), so one expensive scarab does not inflate it. GGG does not publish how many scarabs a chest gives; 3.29 doubled them.

How to use the Syndicate board

The board shows the rewards of each member of the Syndicate (the Betrayal mechanic in Path of Exile) in the four divisions: Transportation, Fortification, Research and Intervention. If a cell gives scarabs, it shows the median poe.ninja price of that family per scarab: one expensive scarab does not inflate it, and the spread is in the cell's tooltip. GGG does not publish how many scarabs a chest holds; what is known is that 3.29 doubled them.

A click on a cell sets a mark: bad, good, great, and the next click clears it. Marks stay in this browser, and the copy button gives a link that shows the board with them to another player without changing that player's saved marks. The highlight button colours the scarab cells by price: the top third, the middle and the bottom. A dashed outline tells it apart from your marks: it is a hint from poe.ninja prices, not a strategy.

Further down are the strategy and recent patch changes: which two divisions to hold, what to do with members in encounters and how to get a Medallion for the Mastermind (Catarina). The reward matrix is verified for the patch named under the heading. If a newer patch is out, the page says the data has not been rechecked.

See also: Scarabs: effects and prices · Scarab EV · Bloodline ascendancies

Strategy

  1. Pick two target divisions (2-2-5-5). The classic is Aisling in Research (Veiled Chaos) and Vorici in Fortification (Fusing), or Intervention with scarabs: chests now hold twice as many, and expensive families are the most liquid choice.
  2. Atlas: the Jun nodes and a Betrayal Scarab, plus Scarab of Unbreaking ×2 so interrogations do not drop ranks.
  3. In encounters: a target member in the right division — Execute up to rank 3. Extras at high ranks — Interrogate. A target in the wrong division — Interrogate down to rank 0 and wait for an option with the right division. Anything else — Release.
  4. Raid only the two target Safehouses: extra raids shuffle the board.
  5. Leaders of 78+ give Medallions → Catarina: the board stays, and you get the Catarina Bloodline and the Eye of Endless.

Changes and the Mastermind

  • 3.29: Safehouse scarab chests hold twice as many scarabs; Trapped Stashes give 15 seconds (was 10); Safehouse clusters go up to ilvl 83.
  • Leaders no longer drop Allflame Embers; the Mastermind drops only The Allflame Ember of Kulemak.
  • Mastermind (Catarina): a Syndicate Medallion in the Map Device, dropped by Safehouse leaders of level 78+. Since 3.26 killing her does not reset the board. She also unlocks the Catarina Bloodline and drops the Eye of Endless for the Abyssal Bloodline.
  • Scarab of Hunted Traitors no longer drops (3.28).

Sources: poedb.tw · expcarry.com · timesaver.gg