SWTOR Traitor Among the Chiss Flashpoint Guide

A Traitor Among the Chiss, sometimes known as ‘Copero’, is a Flashpoint in Star Wars: The Old Republic that you can run alone, with friends, or with other random players through the groupfinder.

Skips info to come!

A Traitor Among the Chiss

Representatives of the Chiss Ascendancy have a problem with a splinter faction. That splinter faction is working with the Alliance traitor. As your problems are aligned, you have come to Copero in the Chiss Ascendancy to deal with both problems.

How to Start

A Traitor Among the Chiss is a Flashpoint meant to be played later in the story, quite a while after your class story is completed. You can encounter it in the story part way through the War on Iokath / Traitor Arc storyline, replay it alone in Story mode, or play it outside of the story with a group in Story, Veteran or Master mode.

• Levels
• Story
• Solo
• Veteran
• Master

Bosses

This Flashpoint has three boss fights – the Guardian Droid, Syndic Zenta, Valss the final boss and the Bonus Boss called Strike Team Walker.

In all modes you can use the medpacs scattered around the bosses. Walk over them to heal yourself – do not walk over them if you do not need them.

The following boss info is mainly for story and Veteran mode – Master Mode tactics are not covered in this guide.

Guardian Droid

This is a bit of a chaotic boss and mostly requires that you watch your feet. Most groups focus the boss down and ignore the rest of the enemies. The trick is staying alive.

Avoid the red triangle of fire.

Find a safe spot when there’s giant yellow circles and avoid them.

Step out and stay out of the red circles as much as possible.

If the boss is attacking you, he has an attack called Heat Beam that might actually hurt – it is a casted ability with a blue beam of light. You might want to use a defensive during this attack if you are dying.

Master Mode: The main difference in Master Mode apart from everything hitting harder is a bunch of small Explosive Droids show up and explode into orange circles you need to also avoid.

Master Mode: If your group is struggling for space with all the mess on the ground, you can co-ordinate to attack one of the Tank Droids each time they respawn so you can have one space without a big yellow circle.

Syndic Zenta

Syndic Zenta is an upstairs/downstairs boss. Most groups focus on her and ignore the smaller enemies.

Zenta will eventually move upstairs. Right-click the glowing green circles to grapple hook up to her.

Stay out of her yellow-red circles as much as possible.

She has an ability called High-Powered Snipe that will knock you back frequently. Make sure to aim your back towards somewhere where you won’t be knocked off the walkways.

Step out and stay out of her red fire circles as much as possible.

When she does blue lightning, kill her as quickly as possible.

Master Mode: This fight is not too different in Master Mode, except your team will need to take down the Medics that show up, as they will heal Zenta, even when she’s up high and they are on the floor.

Master Mode: In the final phase on the floor with lightning, you’ll also need to avoid the big yellow circles. If your group is dying in this phase, you can instead go “up” and wait out her lightning attack before attacking again.

Bonus Boss – Strike Team Walker

The bonus boss in A Traitor Among the Chiss is available in all modes – Story, Veteran and Master, and does not require a bonus quest to unlock – it’s just there when you go into the area where its platform is.

The bonus boss is right after the second boss, Syndic Zenta, but off the main quest path – go SOUTH in the short tunnel after the second boss instead of following the green arrows.

Look for the barrels on a tram and walk beside them. This will lead you south outside to the bonus boss.

The Support Droid with the blue bubble can not be killed.

The idea is that it is making the bonus boss stronger when it uses its beam of light and Calibration ability – you can interrupt or stun it to stop the callibration.

But, in story mode, you can probably just focus on the boss, kill it, and ignore everything else.

Master Mode: This is one of the more difficult Master Mode Bonus Bosses in the game, and it will likely take even experienced teams a few tries, with less experienced teams practicing quite a few times before they get it.

Master Mode: The smaller droid with the blue shield needs to be interrupted – it does a lot of different abilities, but only one of them is very important, and that’s called “Repair”.

It will have a light blue icon. You can interrupt or stun the droid to stop it repairing the Walker – some classes can have up to three interrupts+stuns depending on their tree.

It is not the same as Calibrating, Orbital Laser, or Impulse, which the droid also does.

In our team, the tank did the first four Repairs alternating interrupts and stuns, with a DPS on standby to interrupt.

Master Mode: The smaller enemies show up in waves. You can kill or push off two, leaving one alive, and they won’t keep showing up.

Master Mode: Stay out of the small yellow circles, they will push you back.

Master Mode: When the BIG yellow circle shows up a bit later in the fight, you can not get out of it – it takes up the whole platform and will knock you back far. The only way to save yourself is to make sure your back is facing any of the barrels, so you don’t get pushed off.

Temple Guardian Cat

You are not supposed to fight this large cat enemy – right click the blue basket of fruit, then left-click the temporary ability on your ability bar.

However, you can fight it for an achievement – it just has a lot of health and is strong.

Master Mode: There is no special achievement for fighting the cat on Master Mode, but if you want to fight it, your team will need to work together to interrupt Rend as soon as it shows up, and your healer will need to be ready for some big heals.

Steam Puzzle

To solve the steam puzzle, first activate the puzzle by right-clicking the single blue button under the steam pipes.

Then run up the hill to the right and right-click the farther button that glows aqua-blue.

Then right-click the tiny blue button near the flame.

The return down the hill to the original steam pipes, and this will open the ice door.

There is then a maze to run through.

Most groups ignore the clickable buttons and just run through the maze, avoiding the red circles and enemies as much as possible.

When you reach the second steam puzzle, the solution is the vent opposite of the raised platform (center valve).

This will open the second ice door.

Boss 3 – Valss

The final boss is Valss.

Stay out of his red circles as much as possible.

Step out of his red line if it is not focused on you.

Avoid his little tornadoes as much as possible.

Master Mode: This fight is mostly the same in Master Mode.

Master Mode

Master Mode Traitor Among the Chiss is a lot harder than the solo or Veteran version.

• The enemies are stronger and have more health.
• The Guardian Droid has a bunch of small Explosive Droids show up and explode into orange circles you need to also avoid.
• Syndic Zenta will have Medics that show up that will heal Zenta, even when she’s up high and they are on the floor. In the final phase, you’ll also need to avoid the big yellow circles.
• Valss the final boss is pretty much the same mechanics.
• The bonus boss, Strike Team Walker, is incredibly difficult, and is one of the harder bonus bosses in the game. It has a lot of new mechanics to learn.

Bonus Quests

A Traitor Among the Chiss has a LOT of bonus quests and hidden achievements. You do not need to do any of these to unlock the bonus boss.

Supply Demands

Destroy Chiss Ascendancy Supplies: 0/9 – This bonus quest just gives xp and credits, and the first time you complete it you get an achievement with a decoration reward.

Good Listeners

Plant Listening Devices on Communications Relays: 0/6 – This bonus quest just gives xp and credits, and the first time you complete it you get an achievement with a decoration reward.

Terminal Intelligence

Slice Inrokini Terminals: 0/7 – This bonus quest just gives xp and credits, and the first time you complete it you get an achievement with a decoration reward. However I noticed it often doesn’t show up till right before the second boss and I have to back-track to get the terminals.

Achievement – Defeat the Operations Chiefs

Defeat the three Operations Chiefs in the A Traitor Among the Chiss flashpoint. Reward: 20 CC – These are three bosses that are off the main path.

#1 – Chief Security Officer Li’Dali

#2 – Chief Engineer Nil’Duru

#3 – Chief Scientist Zir’mai

Achievement – Overkill

Defeat the Temple Guardian in any difficulty mode in the A Traitor Among the Chiss flashpoint.

Achievement – Bane of Inrokini

Defeat 100 Inrokini Chiss enemies in any difficulty mode in the A Traitor Among the Chiss flashpoint.

Skips

Traitor Among the Chiss has some of the craziest skips available in the game. Groups may or may not use them because they are strange and obscure jumping paths!

What follows are a gallery of images depicting specific walking routes that may save you some time by avoiding enemies during the flashpoint. All of the following images are done without stealth or without a sleep dart/mind maze from a stealth character, so anyone can attempt them. If you fail to slip by unnoticed or see your team has attacked the enemies – always pull back from these routes and go back to help them defeat them! These may save time if everyone does them, but nothing makes a flashpoint slower than running ahead and not helping others to get out of combat again.

Solo Stealth: If you are playing Copero alone and are on a Stealth character, or are in a full stealth group, Copero is an awesome Flashpoint to stealth through – just don’t walk through any enemies and you can stealth through almost every enemy apart from the bosses. Players often speed-run this Flashpoint in stealth as the bosses drop a lot of nice decorations.

Skip #1 – Multi-Step Big Skip

The first skip is at the very beginning of the Flashpoint.

This skip is fairly advanced and the time it takes to learn may be longer than the usual run for some players – but when it becomes second nature can really speed up the outdoor city portion of the flashpoint. Start by running across the water instead of entering Copero City.

Once you’ve made it to this large rocky cliff is where things get tricky. Hop up onto the rocks out of the water, get near the tree, and jump up the cliff face. There’s an obvious green lip of ledge to stand on halfway up but you’ll find yourself pretty constricted by the overhanging tree – there’s actually a smaller razer thin lip of cliff to stand on just below it that lets you stand more to the right and out of the way of the tree. Then you can finish leaping up to the top of the cliff.

From the cliff, you can jump onto the archway over the street and cross it by leaping up onto the banner-like ornament and crossing it. From there, you can jump into the nearby tree and head down toward the waterfall in the “alley” between buildings. If you fall down here that’s okay – fight the 4 or 5 chiss that pull and then head towards the waterfall to continue the skip.

This part is trickiest for most. Jump to exactly at the meeting point between the pipes from the building and the rocks from the falls to get on. Then, jump up the rocks until you are as high as you can go next to the falls. From here, you leap INTO the waterfall, as theres a tiny little ledge just hidden inside of it. From there, you can cross the waterfall fully and hop up top. Briefly visit the left-hand buildings roof and then continue across more grassy cliffs to continue.

As you run along the cliff, you’ll see a rock here leading up to the next buildings wall. You’ll also immediately feel an invisible wall blocking your progress. Jump up to the lip of the building, and as you run into the invisible wall up here, you can actually hop right on top of it and go over, continuing past and around the lip of the building.

Congrats! From here you can drop down and start fighting. Judging by the map in this last image you manage to skip almost all of copero city on the way to the first boss.

Skip #2

The last group of droids before the first boss can be skipped as well – just hop up and hug the pole from the vehicle awnings and head through the sulphur pits instead of fighting.

Skip #3

Inside the grappling hook-laden path indoors before the second boss, you can cut this corner early and run behind the equipment on the dock to keep hidden from the enemies on the other side. Run allllll the way to the back this way and don’t cut over towards the exit until you’re at the far wall. If you want to be doubly sure this skip works, jump from your walkway (over the railings) and behind the wall instead of walking around the lamp. The medic can sometimes see you if you don’t jump the corner.

Skip #4

Not exactly a skip, but make sure to grab the food and use the temporary ability to feed this huge guardian if you don’t want to waste time fighting it. There IS an achievement to fight it normally, but it can be formidable on higher difficulties. Keep that rend cast interrupted as soon as it starts. Otherwise, skip with the fruit!

To my knowledge, nothing else in this open snowy area is really skippable aside from the obvious – give the resting cats a wide berth in the ice area, push wampas off cliffs if you’ve got knockbacks, do the puzzles right (button on the left for the lever and pipe near the door after the maze) and that’s about it for Traitor Among the Chiss!

Rewards

In addition to the usual rewards of XP, credits, gear and end-game currency, A Traitor Among the Chiss has the following rewards available.

Ascendancy Soldier Armor Set

The Ascendancy Soldier set only drops from the A Traitor Among the Chiss’s first and second bosses, the Guardian Droid and Syndic Zenta, and they can even drop in story mode. If you are trying to get these pieces, every time you fight any of those bosses in any mode, you have a chance of either getting no pieces or getting a piece, and if you get a piece you only have a 1 in 6 chance of getting a specific piece… so it may take a while to collect the whole set! The pieces are Binds on Pickup, so you can not sell or trade them to another player, and they are unfortunately not legacy-bound.

• Ascendancy Soldier’s Belt
• Ascendancy Soldier’s Boots
• Ascendancy Soldier’s Bracers
• Ascendancy Soldier’s Gauntlets
• Ascendancy Soldier’s Greaves
• Ascendancy Soldier’s Tunic

Ascendancy Outcast Armor Set

The Ascendancy Outcast set only drops from the A Traitor Among the Chiss’s bonus and final boss, the Strike Team bonus boss and Valss at the end, and they can even drop in story mode. If you are trying to get these pieces, every time you fight any of those bosses in any mode, you have a chance of either getting no pieces or getting a piece, and if you get a piece you only have a 1 in 7 chance of getting a specific piece… so it may take a while to collect the whole set! The pieces are Binds on Pickup, so you can not sell or trade them to another player, and they are unfortunately not legacy-bound.

• Ascendancy Outcast’s Visor
• Ascendancy Outcast’s Breastplate
• Ascendancy Outcast’s Greaves
• Ascendancy Outcast’s Boots
• Ascendancy Outcast’s Gauntlets
• Ascendancy Outcast’s Belt
• Ascendancy Outcast’s Bracers

Random Drop Decorations

These decorations can drop from all over A Traitor Among the Chiss from any boss in any mode, including Story. All but one can also be bought and sold on the GTN.

Air Circulator

Air Circulator, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story

Ceiling Chain Light

Ceiling Chain Light, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story

Chiss Banner

Chiss Banner, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story

Copero Hanging Plant

Copero Hanging Plant, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story

Copero Large Bar

Copero Large Bar, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story

Copero Large Fountain

Copero Large Fountain, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story

Copero Resort Light

Copero Resort Light, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story

Copero Resort Rug

Copero Resort Rug, Strike Team Walker drop

Copero Wall Fountain

Copero Wall Fountain, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story

Paper Lantern

Paper Lantern, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story – can NOT be bought or sold on the GTN

Power Control

Power Control, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story

Steam Distributor

Steam Distributor, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story

Tree: Tropical Copero Palm

Tree: Tropical Copero Palm, drops from any boss in any mode, including Story

Copero Propaganda Poster

The idea is that you should be able to get ten of these Copero Propoganda decorations, and each of the five achievements gives you two copies of the Copero Propaganda Decoration. However, for whatever reason, instead of getting 2, you get 999 for completing one achievement.

• Defeat the Strike Team – Defeat the Strike Team in the “A Traitor Among the Chiss” flashpoint on story or veteran mode.
• Bane of Inrokini – Defeat 100 Inrokini Chiss enemies in any difficulty mode in the “A Traitor Among the Chiss” flashpoint.
• Supply Demands – Complete the bonus quest Supply Demands in the “A Traitor Among the Chiss” flashpoint.
• Good Listeners – Complete the bonus quest Good Listeners in the “A Traitor Among the Chiss” flashpoint.
• Terminal Intelligence – Complete the bonus quest Terminal Intelligence in the “A Traitor Among the Chiss” flashpoint.

Objectives

• Shuttle to Copero
• Get to the House Inrokini Stronghold
• Defeat the Guardian Droid
• Locate Syndic Zenta
• Defeat Syndic Zenta
• Make Your Way Further Into The Complex
• Reach the Ancient Ruins
• Discover a Way Past the Threshold Beast
• Discover a Way Further Into the Temple
• Make your Way Through the Temple Trials
• Discover a Way Past the Iced Over Archway
• Get to Theron Shan
• Defeat Valss

Lore

Partway through the flashpoint, you will run across a news terminal that automatically starts playing an audio news clip. Here is the two different announcements you might get from the Galactic Bulletin announcement on Copero. These bulletins will only make sense if you have reached the correct part of the storyline in the expansions.

Option 1, Acina is alive: Reeling from Chancellor Madon’s resignation and the loss of Supreme Commander Jace Malcom, the Republic has entered a state of political stagnation. Many speculate Sith Empress Acina will use this moment of weakness to push for the capture of the resource world known as Iokath. Radicals within the Senate urge Interim Chancellor Galena Rans to retaliate, but the complicated nature of current elections has slowed any progress. Meanwhile, more than two dozen Republic colonies have reported a raw materials crisis, halting the production of weapons and defense systems.

Option 2, Acina is dead: In the wake of Sith Empress Acina’s sudden death, former Dark Council member Darth Vowrawn has announced his ascension to the throne. The new Emperor Vowrawn has already issued controversial orders to halt any progress on the resource world of Iokath, prompting public outcry. Insiders say he might be using this time to gather strength for an attack on the Republic and its Eternal Alliance partner, but those rumors are not confirmed. Whether the Emperor’s methods will prove beneficial to the two dozen Imperial worlds in a resource crisis remains to be seen.