The Survivalist Path – Combat Medic is a quest in Escape From Tarkov given by Jaeger. The quest asks you to get your Vitality skill to level 5.
The Survivalist Path – Combat Medic Quest Details
Quest Dialogue
I just can’t count how much shit have I seen while working as a gamekeeper, friend. So many different people used to get lost in these woods. Some of them made it out alive and well, some of them didn’t. You have to be one hell of a tough asshole to get out of the woods alive. Let’s make a real survivalist out of you. Come to me when you’re ready.
Objectives
- Reach the required Vitality skill level to 5
Rewards
- +5900 XP
- ~50,000 Roubles
- +2 Vitality Levels
- +0.02 reputation wit Jaeger
Reward Dialogue
How do people say? What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle! This skill will come in handy, trust me on this one. Your training is almost complete. Looks like you are ready to become the Hunter.
Guide
This is not much of a guide, but there’s a way to upgrade your Vitality skill level by some in-game actions. Those are taking damage and losing blood. Another way to increase your Vitality skill is by going over some mines. This would indirectly also boost your Stress Resistance. So, yes, there’s a way to cheese the system, and should you decide to do it, just go ahead. Just make sure you grab yourself a Grizzly med and heal yourself fully before you step on another mine. If you play with friends, then you can shoot each other and open wounds so you start bleeding before you extract.
Another way of doing this is by running over a fire. There are a couple of Reserve, Customs, and Shoreline. Just make sure you have meds to heal through everything, or get a healing stimulant such as the eTG-C or Propital.
Vitality Skill In-Game Description and Benefits
- Vitality improves your chance of surviving a wound by decreasing the possibility of bleeding and instant death through critical damage of a body part.
- Decreases chance of bleeding
- Decreases chance of dying by losing a limb