Last Updated on by Samuel Franklin
Vitality in Tarkov is a prerequisite for quests and essential hideout upgrades. Depending on your playstyle and EFT experience players may struggle to naturally reach these required levels with this guide detailing several how to level vitality strategies.
Table of Contents:
– How To Level Vitality
– Vitality Requirements (Quest & Hideout)
– Benefits Of Vitality Levels
How to Level Vitality
Earning skill points in vitality requires:
- Taking damage
- Blood loss
- Completing specific quests (Ambulance: +1 level and Crisis: +4 levels)
Like other physical skills in Tarkov using the FP-100 Filter Absorber in your air filtering unit will boost the levelling speed of vitality.
While these vitality skill points don’t sound difficult given the combat focus of Tarkov they are slow in practice given the ratio of damage and blood loss to skill points. The quick nature of firefights also translates to few vitality skill points, particularly if you prefer to fight Scavs and PMCs at longer distances.
I recommend the following methods to optimise vitality health points:
- After obtaining a bleed players can delay healing it if safe. To help manage the lost health while playing players can bring one of the stims (propital, adrenaline or eTG) in their secure container.
- Use weapons that encourage short ranged combat with PMCs or Scavs or visit PvP maps and locations.
For those players that want to level vitality quickly with cheese activities:
- Load into factory (lowest queue times) with a grenade and use it on yourself after the raid starts before healing to full outside of raid through Therapist or medical items and repeating.
- Bring a Tarkov friend into a map (preferably a large one like Woods or Shoreline with places to hide) to damage each other and heal the damage with a large medical item such as the Grizzly first aid kit. By using a melee weapon this can also double as a method to level your strength skills.
- Visit one of the fire or barbed wire locations in Tarkov and constantly damage yourself while healing with a Grizzly before repeating the process in another raid once you reach skill exhaustion (bringing a grenade can make this reset faster). I prefer this to the Factory method above as it doesn’t ruin a Factory raid for others (by giving them one less PMC to fight) and I will generally farm Scavs for experience after doing this vitality levelling method on Shoreline for other account gains. Popular low traffic locations can be found in Shoreline in particular near Scav Tower and South Fence Passage as pictured below:
Vitality Requirements (Quest & Hideout)
Vitality in Tarkov is used for:
- Level 3 vitality to construct the level 3 medstation in the hideout.
- Level 5 vitality to complete the Jaeger’s quest The Survivalist Path – Combat Medic.
Benefits of Vitality
Vitality provides the following PMC benefits:
- Decreases chance of bleeding
- Bleeding stops without medical treatment after a few seconds (Elite)
The decreased chance of bleeding is a quality of life benefit as it may result in one less emergency to deal with after combat. While most players won’t reach the elite skill those that do won’t have to worry about healing their own bleeds at all which can save a few seconds in your post fight recovery.
In previous patches players also gained a decreased chance of dying when losing a limb although this mechanic is not currently active in Tarkov.
If you want to learn more about levelling skills in Tarkov visit our other guides on endurance, strength, search, attention, health, metabolism, stress resistance and sniper rifles.
