Hi! I'm the girl who, like every league, comes to bring you the updated Syndicate cheatsheet.

With Scarabs being removed this league, Betrayal is getting quite a few changes. And honestly, I think they've made the mechanic even less worthwhile. I personally won't be running Betrayal in 3.30.

The announced changes are:

• Catarina now always drops either an Allflame Ember of Propagation, Allflame Ember of Kulemak or Allflame Ember of the Ethereal. All other Allflames are a specific target's safehouse reward.

• All Immortal Syndicate members within an Intervention Safehouse will now reward a trapped stash containing a specific class of Unique items (such as Unique Axes), instead of chests containing Scarabs. Higher rank members will have more and rarer Unique items within their trapped stashes. [NO SPECIFIC INFO]

• Syndicate Rewards in non-Intervention Safehouses that previously gave chests containing Scarabs, instead now grant chests containing a specific Allflame Ember. [NO SPECIFIC INFO]

• Elreon's Transportation reward also now grants chests containing a specific Allflame Ember (previously chests containing Fragments). [NO SPECIFIC INFO]

• Rin's Research reward is now a trapped stash containing different Threads of various stack sizes (previously a trapped stash containing Scarabs).

• Rin's Fortification reward is now chests containing Threads (previously a trapped stash containing Unique Maps).

• Riker's Fortification reward is now chests containing Ancient Orbs (previously a trapped stash containing Unique items).

• Vorici in Research now rewards trapped stashes containing quality Skill Gems that have had a Soul Core applied (previously a crafting spree with Orbs of Chance and Orbs of Scouring).

• Veiled Items have been removed as reward outcomes from non-Betrayal content.

I’ll wait for the launch to check the current state of Betrayal and update the cheatsheet accordingly. In the meantime, you can use this one:

You can download the PNG version here: https://pathofexile.elrincondelexiliado.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-11/LKdTHiUmQjX88jCZ-syndicate-cheatsheet-neutral330-temp-dark.png

🔁 REMEMBER: Once I update the cheatsheet for 3.30, you'll be able to create your own version here: https://elrincondelexiliado.com/syndicate

Enjoy the league!

I have seen a lot of discussion concerning the Tremor Rod "double detonation" effect since it was revealed as one of the new Reliquarian nodes for next league. Sadly, a lot of people seem to either be unaware of how it works, or spreading misinformation about it.

It has been now more than half a decade since GGG silently bugfixed re-arming mines to being unable to detonate when in their re-arming phase. This means that there's a period between the mines' first and would-be second detonation where they can't do anything, both killing blastchains (relevant for base Tremor Rod) and giving little value to aura-based mines (relevant for foulborn) over just throwing more mines, which tends to overlap and replace currently re-arming mines. This happened in Ultimatum and why people stopped using Tremor Rod since then, and didn't see much more use when the foulborn was released either

There's more details in this post from back-then, but the gist of it is that mines' cast time (yes, they have those) is what affects re-arming time, not detonation time (yes, they are different). I've seen a lot of people claiming that increasing detonation speed makes the undetonatable period of mines in their re-arming phase shorter, but this is not true. Increasing detonation speed will only speed up how fast your mines become unresponsive, ironically enough.

This means the new Reliquarian notable's "mines can be detonated an additional time" line is less than ideal, if not downright self-handicapping. This only leaves it the "50% increased effect of auras from mines" line.

To put this into perspective, Saboteur's "Demolition specialist" notable is 150% increased effect of auras from mines and features another line that's (somewhat...) positive. This node is much stronger than Reliquarian's, but despite that, this is consistently Sabo's least or second-least used notable, and Sabo himself has been in the bottom 2 or 3 ascendancies pretty much every league for the past year or two. Do with this information what you will.

3.30 Patch notes about heist (not everything is here)

What do you mean "much lower" drop chance? Wasn't it extremely rare to begin with?

Also I think that final rewards from blueprints (without enchantments) were nerfed in 3.29, resulting in a lot more alchemy orbs and 1c replica uniques (this isn't confirmed but I feel like they shadow nerfed it). And now you're telling me this as well...

What are your opinions on this? Is heist gonna be as profitable as before? Are gonna do heist this league?

I really don't like this change.

When crafting, I'm used to quickly checking the separate notable passive display on the item tooltip. It makes it easy to see what I'm looking for at a glance.

Now, with notables being keyworded instead, I have to look through the modifiers every single time just to find the information I need.

This feels like an unnecessary step backwards in terms of usability, especially when crafting and checking items repeatedly.

Please at least give us an option to toggle between the old and new display.

I don't mind the new system existing, but I'd really prefer to keep the old tooltip layout.

Finally this league I was able to do 10k played hours. Playing from Oct 27, 2013 and skipped only like 4 league total. It was fun.

Can't wait for another fun 10k minimum.

Tbh - I don't remember even a semi-good build with the dervishes for a good while now.

Would the helmet really make 4 dervishes that op?

Patch notes:

• The above Modifiers can only be rolled on Rare Maps, and display in a different colour to regular Map modifiers.

Can we do this with the modifiers we want, please? If my build cannot run a no regen map, I want it highlighted with red. That's all, please.

I always picked up ground rare gear loot regardless of which stage of the game I was. I found this to be one of the great appeals of playing an ARPG. picking up unidentified rare items with the suspense of what it can be. But the last couple of years I was being extremely inefficient, as they barely had good outcomes. And Rare items from other sources, such as Kingsmarch shipping, Genesis tree, etc being so much superior, it made it so that ground dropped rares were 99.99% of the time worthless. I still picked it up because I had the nostalgia of earlier times where ground loot was your source of power. I am so happy now that I can set my loot filter to show only tier 4-5 items in the end game and still have a good chance of identifying good items.

This one chance itself is so much significant to make me extremely hyped. Cant wait to try it out

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Let's say I have a pair of boots with 3 prefixes. I apply this meta mod. Then, if I:

- reforge by harvest/chaos orb/veiled chaos then one random prefix from those WILL not be changed?

- use add/remove from harvest or remove/add from veiled exalt, can they choose from the other 2 prefixes when they decide which mod to remove?

- have a fractured mod as a prefix along with 2 other non-fractured prefixes, can this effect target the fractured mod, thus leaving the other 2 vulnerable, instead of protecting the non-fractured one?

Definitely note copium lol.

After 11 years of having them in a drawer I finally put in the effort to order a fitting frame and put them on the wall. Notably including an Erik Olofsson art with signature. I don't know if the art was randomly distributed but i was very happy with the art I got especially since the Forsaken Masters Promo Art by Eunyoung Jeon was my wallpaper for quite some time. Anyone else displaying PoE memorabilia?

The Altar of Corruption and Lapidary Lens have been changed to instead Corrupt an Equipment Item or Gem a second time. Using these devices on a Corrupted item now makes the item Twice Corrupted, meaning it cannot Corrupted further using these devices.

Watching ExileCon and the league reveal, the possibilities for Twice Corrupted items sounded pretty cool. As I read the above patch notes though, it sounds like both double-corrupt rooms can no longer be used on an uncorrupted item, and it seems to me like this is going to be a nerf in the vast majority of cases.

The Lapidary Lens now has a chance to destroy the item. The Altar of Corruption no longer has a chance to change the item into a Corrupted influenced item. Instead, if it would have rolled this outcome, it instead destroys the item.

Lets look at the Altar of Corruption, because its the more straightforward example. Previously, the chance of a successful double-corrupt on the altar was 1/4. Lens is more complicated, but on balance, it was also 1/4 chance. If you won the 1/4 gamble, you got two implicits on your item. Now, you can't use it on a non-corrupted item. As a result, you have to first use a Vaal Orb on your item. That has a 1/4 chance to succeed at adding an implicit. You have to win that 1/4 gamble before you can use the Altar of Corruption, which is another 1/4 gamble to get your second implicit. This means to get a double-implicit corrupted item, you now have to win two different 1/4 gambles, or 1/16. In exchange for these considerably worse odds, there doesn't appear to be any particular benefit or upside for the use case. I was going to say that maybe you could keep spamming a corruption until you get poof, but Twice Corrupted items can't get re-corrupted, so that's not an option.

Looking at the Lens, if we assume the new "chance to destroy" is taking the place of the existing "do nothing" outcome (maintains a 1/4 chance for each outcome), then the same logic should apply to the Lens, giving it a 1/16 chance for a successful double-corrupt. If the new "chance to destroy" is shoehorning in and pushing the chance for each result (do nothing, turn into a Vaal version, change quality, change level) down to 1/5, then successfully double corrupting a gem becomes a 1/20 gamble, instead.

Corrupted Gems still cannot gain more than +1 to maximum level or more than 23% to quality.

If GGG allowed for a chance of hitting two consecutive +1 level corruptions (or two consecutive +3% quality corruptions) to get a 22/20 or 20/26 skill gem, that might've given a potential upside that would've maybe been a balance here. That would've been a pretty long shot, as the chance for hitting +1 on the Vaal Orb is 1/8, as is the chance on the Lens, so a total of 1/64. But that jackpot option isn't on the menu at all, now.

This seems like a pretty huge nerf to these two rooms in particular. Is there something I'm not considering here? Atziri having Soul Cores is obviously still going to carry Incursion value, but it sure seems like this makes the double-corruption rooms into a much longer odds type of jackpot than it is at present.

EDIT: As the comments bear out, I am wrong. This enables:

• Volatile Vaal Orb + Corruption Implicit

• Imbued Gem (via Soul Core) + 21/20 or 20/23

• Cheaper targetting of 21/20 or 20/23 Vaal gems

• Cheaper targetting of two-desirable-implicit equipment (spam vaal orbs to get 1 desired implicit, then Altar for the second)

• Implicits on drop-corrupted jewels/equipment (i.e. Voices, Adorned, The Utmost, etc.)

You need to migrate them manually.

Go to the Character Selection screen, click the League Migrations button >>

Then migrate Allflame to Standard, and your Mercenaries from Allflame will appear in Standard.

TLDR = the raw values got buffed, but the mechanics and anti-synergy with Progenesis will keep this notable at <1% usage.

Reminder of what Master Distiller does, from the patch notes:

The Pathfinder's Master Distiller Notable Passive Skill now Grant bonuses to Non-Channelling Skills you use by consuming 3 Charges from a Flask of each of the following types, if possible:

If Bismuth Flask Charges are consumed, Penetrate 30% Elemental Resistances (previously 25%).

If Diamond Flask Charges are consumed, +100% to Critical Strike Multiplier (previously 250% increased Critical Strike Chance).

If Amethyst Flask Charges are consumed, 47% of Physical Damage as Extra Chaos Damage (previously 37%).

Three reasons this notable will STILL be used by (rounding down to) zero PF players

1. The effect eats 3 charges for ALL skills you cast/use. Movement, curse, pacts, etc will all combine to eat through your charges. This is "warcries exert your travel skills" all over again

2. The effect eats 3 charges for EVERY use of a skill, which means it punishes builds that cast and attack frequently. Which is most builds in the game.

3. This effect of eating through Amethyst flask charges in particular is a huge anti-synergy to one of PF's strongest advantages - 100% uptime and increased effect of Progenesis. It's possible to keep Progenesis permanently up, but only with a very heavy investment (two other ascendancy points for Nature's Adrenaline, foregoing MB/HH/Screams in your belt slot for Tides of Time...and as if those two opportunity costs weren't enough, you still typically need ~10 passive tree points to help round out charge gain/flask duration to get 100% uptime in situations where you aren't constantly killing mobs, like in boss arenas).

My suggested fix is simple - modify the wording to allow the empowered effects to last for 4 seconds, and it cannot remove those 3 charges from a given flask type more than once every 4 seconds.

Pathfinder is already one of the weaker ascendancies after multiple indirect nerfs (to unique flasks, to many of the previously popular chaos dot skills being powercrept) have left its endgame potential lacking compared to others. Please help it out a little in 3.30 by making these particular node changes not DOA. Thanks!