How do I cheese On Overwatch penance?

[SSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNDDWWRRYYYYY]

I do not care about the skin it unlocks, I only care about the helmet locked further beyond this penance.
I've done a Malice run where I only took a few melee hits on my toughness and the only health damage I took was from a burster.
I've read somewhere toughness damage doesn't count. Is it true?
If it's true then the penance is bugged since in that run I took zero health damage from melee.
If it's not true then how can I absolutely and disgustingly cheese out this cancer penance so I can curbstomp it and get rid of it once and for all? Doesn't matter if it involves bug exploit or anti teamplay builds, that'll be a one run tactic never to be done again.

[Vinyltavia]

don't sweat it dude; you'll get it when you get it.
took me forever because i play aggro as all hell as a veteran. your best bet is to look for a low intensity mission and just use infiltrate with the low profile modifier if you want to sweat for it chief.
relax, enjoy the game, don't think about the penance too much.

[Chaos]

There used to be a cheese that you throw yourself over the cliff and let your 3 friends finish the mission for you, but that was patched.

These days using stealth build to dump argro on your team whatever you think "damn I'm gonna take HP hit soon" is the easiest way aside from simply gitting gud.

Oh and the usual advise of play on low intensity, watch your back and watch out for melee specialist(doggo andd mutie) still apply.

[coolman552]

i completed it in a normal malice mission with no infiltration or anything lol, took a few hits to my toughness but if you're vigilant enough you can do it without any special tricks. Try to go for NO health damage at all to guarantee it i guess, max out your toughness with curios and talent nodes

[Licher.Rus]

I did it with an old Camo perk
How to do it now - maybe with stealth ability

[junimai233]

Get a gun that have bash, use the frag liberally on hordes, and do low intensity mission. That's how I get it back then, you can now have VoC and infiltrate to help you out.

[Captain Worthy]

Originally posted by Licher.Rus:

I did it with an old Camo perk
How to do it now - maybe with stealth ability

This is pretty much the most viable solution, though it is still exponentially harder than it was with the old camo cloak.

[XIX Victorious Aut Mortis]

2X ogyrn, with agro builds a Zealot, you with with iron will and 3x toughness curios. As it states you can't be hit, it not clear thought is you can't take damage since toughness takes the first hit still you can survive one hit. on toughness before damage.

[HOLY ♥♥♥♥ ITS MOTHMAN]

Use a dagger. You can kite mobs forever with that. Crazy dodge distance as well. Hide behind your team when shooting, and keep your back/side against a wall so you can't get hit from at least one angle. Getting an ogryn buddy would help a lot as well.

[Buzzles]

You don't need to cheese it really.
Low intensity malice and making sure you do a lot of dodging and blocking if you get in melee. Dodge/Block the moment you hear the sound cue for an attack about to land.

Toughness perks are a bonus, and stay in coherency for the passive regen so if you do take a hit, you recharge back to full asap.

The only danger is taking a hit when you don't have 100% toughness, as that's when you take chip damage.

[Ellen]

Best map for this would be Consignment Yard HL-17-36, try to wait for Low intensity to show up.

Got it myself when it felt like I did not get it, got melee'd by a shotgunner at the start so I kinda gave up on it, but I did not get hit at all to the rest of the mission. During the hacking event you can just stay upstairs and sit in one of the windows to still be useful and make it harder for enemies to reach you.
Went with stealth to drop aggro when things were difficult and on the last part of the mission be mindful about the vents that are around to not get hit by the pox walkers, save the stealth for when the monstrosity spawns in case it focuses you so you can drop aggro.

Any weapon of your choice, but I went with the recon lasgun to kill trash faster, but I can see bolter work too with the suppression it causes. Sadly there is no way to cheese this, unless you can get a friend or two to babysit you with crowd control weapons.

[Wakipai Pero #PLAYGG]

I actually got it naturally on a heresy Assassination map. Best advice I can give is constantly check your back.

[AtomicScout]

Try low intensity and run the stealth ability , lower threat talent and do it on malice. i also walked while blocking cause on that difficulty players leave mobs alive that will sneak on you

[Auftragsmoerder]

Originally posted by SSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNDDWWRRYYYYY:

penance is bugged

Yes, as far as i know toughness damage only should not count. But bugs are a thing. And i am not certain that my knowledge is up to date.