How to use stoic effectively?

[Melonkali]

Im unsure of how to use stoic to its fullest potential i keep going down constantly

[Kyrovan]

I'm not too good with it myself, but I believe it's better to save it for after you've taken a lot of hits. Pay attention to your health bar. The more it's fragmented, the better.

Additionally, people like to pair it with Hostage Taker for the health regen. Stoic is good at negating damage and even heals some back, but it'll never bring you back to full. Remember: the perk deck doesn't make you invincible. It merely prolongs the inevitable (extremely well).

[Melonkali]

I use it with ICTV, giving me a bunch of health but my health gets shredded on overkill for whatever reason.

[Drapichrust]

Don't use Stoic below Death Wish. It works good only if you're getting a lot of damage.

[76561198255260574]

Stoic is a very well perk deck. Is totally good in all levels.
But, for answer your question, please, use search bar, or watch a guide in steam or youtube.
Search, please, this topic and question have a properly answer. You can find huge data abaut Stoic.
I am only say to you:
Use first Aid Kits and improve it with skill points
Use Tank skill tree, avoid armor regeneration skill.
Bye.

[uNorthodoX]

Whenever I use it I just use the flask after I take a ♥♥♥♥ ton of damage, like 150+ damage. Take health regen skills and use FAKs to help, and don't let the damage pile up, take cover when necessary

It's usable with most armors really, from Suit to HBV to ICTV

[Shirosakura]

This might shock you but stoic is at its most powerful and effective when you only have 2 out of 9 cards unlocked.

[Drapichrust]

Originally posted by Aoihinagiku:

This might shock you but stoic is at its most powerful and effective when you only have 2 out of 9 cards unlocked.

Whaaaaaat?

[Shirosakura]

Originally posted by Drapichrust:

Originally posted by Aoihinagiku:

This might shock you but stoic is at its most powerful and effective when you only have 2 out of 9 cards unlocked.

Whaaaaaat?

Yea, there should be guides or at least discussions on how powerful it is already on the forums. Basically you are granted the massive damage reduction without having your armour being converted to health.

[Sep]

Originally posted by Drapichrust:

Originally posted by Aoihinagiku:

This might shock you but stoic is at its most powerful and effective when you only have 2 out of 9 cards unlocked.

Whaaaaaat?

Is a exploit that Overkill have yet fail to get it fix yet.

[VxWolf]

Originally posted by Aoihinagiku:

Originally posted by Drapichrust:

Whaaaaaat?

Yea, there should be guides or at least discussions on how powerful it is already on the forums. Basically you are granted the massive damage reduction without having your armour being converted to health.

To be honest I think 2/9 stoic is overrated

[Steve from America]

Originally posted by VxWolf:

Originally posted by Aoihinagiku:

Yea, there should be guides or at least discussions on how powerful it is already on the forums. Basically you are granted the massive damage reduction without having your armour being converted to health.

To be honest I think 2/9 stoic is overrated

Every meta build is overrated, that's the point.

[LesserSphinx]

Stoic performence very well on higher difficulties such as death wish and death sentance because there you can regen health easily because the cops deal so much damage but on lower difficulites the deck performs a lot worse. I reccomend getting as much dodge as possible with the deck on higher difficulties and get weapons that can kill quick and almost instantly such as the brothers grimm, crits would also be very handy since ur gonna use dodge. Always use the flask when you've taken a lot of damage so you will regen a whole lot and don't run out into the combat without having it recharged

[shadowmpire]

stoic, works great with suit ctv and ictv. hostage taker and FAK are a must. remember small guys chipping away is what does the most damage too you because using flask to heal it seems like a waste most of time. dozers and snipers will help you more than hurt you in most situations, use flask after being hit and recover most of your health. try to get a quick fak if your health gets low or your dot damage gets too high. remember that flask takes about half a second to use, most of the time when i go down is while taking out 2 dozers and not stopping for a sec to use flask while killing them and not noticing i didnt use it in time. you can use it while interacting/reviving. if getting shot by lots of cops let the dot build up a little b4 using it. armor regen/recovery skills dont work with stoic, so no bullseye/shockandawe.

[BlackRibbon]

Originally posted by Drapichrust:

Don't use Stoic below Death Wish. It works good only if you're getting a lot of damage.

You've never used it effectively then. Many of us used it for OD because of how good it is.

[Sep]

Originally posted by Black Ribbon:

Originally posted by Drapichrust:

Don't use Stoic below Death Wish. It works good only if you're getting a lot of damage.

Hahaha, you've never used it effectively then. Many of us used it for OD because of how good it is.

Using Stoic at difficulty below Deathwish even with One Down mechanism enable is still rather inefficient method. You would be a whole lot better using Muscle, Grinder or Ex-President. At DW below, much of the unit damage is about low to moderate. One to the extend that Stoic dot effect is almost unnecessary.

If there is one thing, the lack of armor protection would be far more counter productive for Stoic at lower difficulty.