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. Safehouse Leaders also have a chance to drop a Syndicate Medallion which grants an access to 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 offers you 2 choices after being defeated.

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. The higher the member’s rank, the more intelligence they grant toward their safehouse.
• Execute - Increases the member's rank by 1. Only possible as an option if there is another member witnessing the execution.
• Bargain - Offers one of several possible outcomes: drop currency or veiled items, gain safehouse intelligence, member leaves the Immortal Syndicate or switches divisions with another member. The most unique outcome of a bargain is to recruit a member to a division and become trusted with them. Trusted relationships between members make 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, turning them into Rivals. Becoming Rivals makes them show up together during an encounter more often. Some of the other 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 the 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 has a chance to drop Syndicate Medallion or Veiled Chaos Orb and the reward room door is unlocked. Each member of that division grants their own special reward room type and the value of the rewards increases with their rank.

Mastermind - the Ultimate boss of Immortal Syndicate. Kill Safehouse Leaders in high tier Maps to obtain a Syndicate Medallion. Put it in the Map Device to start the encounter. After defeat Catarina drops 1 of the boss specific Unique Items, Veiled Items and Allflame Embers. Additionally, it is the only source of Veiled Exalted Orbs.

Veiled Items - Veiled items have a chance to drop from any Syndicate member. They always have 1 "hidden" modifier. Right click the item in order to reveal the modifier. During this process you choose 1 option out of the 3 presented modifiers to keep.

How To Run It

The most efficient way to farm Betrayal is to first focus on setting up your board and then completing as many Safehouses per hour as possible with desired high rank members in each division.

The most optimal way to set up your board is to first choose which 14 out 17 syndicate members you want to have on the board. Look out for the option to remove the least desired Syndicate Members. This will randomly add one of the 3 missing one. After that, you want to get as many rivalries as possible between the most desired Syndicate Members and every other ones. This makes it so that every time any Syndicate Member shows up in the map it has a high chance to be accompanied by a rival, which should be the member that you want to appear.

Step 1 - Setup your Syndicate Board (read above).
Step 2 - Run the map normally until you find the first Syndicate encounter.
Step 3 - Defeat all Syndicate members in that encounter.
Step 4 - Check all of the choices presented to you for all members.
Step 5 - Decide what to do with each defeated Syndicate member.
Step 6 - Find the remaining Syndicate encounters.
Step 7 - Repeat this in the next map.
Step 8 - Rank up as many desired Syndicate members to rank 3.
Step 9 - Reach 100% intelligence towards the safehouse.
Step 10 - Enter the Safehouse and reap the rewards!

5-5-2-2 Setup

This setup refers to the amount of Syndicate Members in each division and allows you to farm the chosen two divisions more efficiently. Using this setup, you only farm the rewards provided by the 4 Syndicate Members, but it's much easier to put them in the desired Safehouses. This results in farming them extremely often.

Step 1 - Choose 2 divisions in which you want to progress the Safehouses and 2 in which you never run a Safehouse.
Step 2 - Put the least desired 10 Syndicate Members in 2 Divisions in which you never want to run a Safehouse.
Step 3 - Rank up the remaining 4 Syndicate members and use them to progress the desired 2 Safehouses.
Step 4 - Reach 100% intelligence towards the safehouse.
Step 5 - Enter the 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 the table 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 its rewards. There are also no Scarabs or Kirac Modifiers 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 Allflame - Provides 75% Increased number of Monster Packs Substituted by Allflame Embers in Area. This doesn't provide any benefits when farming Betrayal.

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 reinforcements which significantly ramps up your progression.

Betrayal Scarab of Perpetuation - This Scarab makes Syndicate Members have a chance to drop an additional Scarab on defeat. The amount of scarabs generated this way is not significant, so use it only if you have a free slot in your map device and no other scarabs to use.

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 3 Syndicate Members

Veiled Items

The Mastermind

Filtering

Veiled Items - Common veiled items are very cheap and annoying to sell, so consider hiding them. Syndicate members' specific veiled items such as Elreon's Jewelry can generate decent profit, especially at the League start.

Credits

Written by Zen_M.
Reviewed by Tenkiei, IBoilerUp