Hello! This is a guide to get you through the Cosmic Trial with Black Widow. Note: This is NOT the best Black Widow. It is NOT end game Black Widow. You will not find the BiS items in this build. Lozareth created an end game version of this build and you can find it here: https://itembase.mhbugle.com/build/5831/

Set Up

I capped myself at 150 Infinity Points for these trial guides. It won't take too long to build up that many. By the time you've leveled up a few characters for synergies and farmed some Heroic (Red) Challenges and terminals for some gear you may even be past 150 IP when you try the trial. Worst thing that can happen when you try the trial is you fail there is no punishment. So give it a shot and see if you're missing damage, survivability or both.

Not all end game builds work equally well with less IP and gear. I tried a couple of the builds that already existed and found one that worked well to get through the Cosmic Trial. Widow cleared with 1 minute to spare!

Synergies

I did not use all of the synergies that I put on this build. I added the ideal synergies. I don't have every hero unlocked yet. The synergies I personally used are: Beast, Cable, Captain Marvel, Elektra, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Squirrel Girl, Ultron, Wolverine, War Machine.

Infinities

Alot of times my first go to with Infinities is the attack and movement speed node (Remilla does a great job explaining attack speed and the infinity system @RemiFromMH on YT) in the Time Stone - (Temporal Loophole). 

Gear

I ended up using  it's a great damage option for most heroes. End Game builds seem to favor  ,  , or even  (if you're playing a ranged variant). If you try the trial and find surviving difficult try switching to a .

For Widow's 1-5 I used mostly her own uniques to keep farming as simple as possible. I found a  (you'll find a ton of these while farming) and tossed it in my slot one because it seemed interesting to me. It has higher damage rating than her slot 1, and even more damage rating to burning targets. Our  burn enemies.

For artifacts I went with  (this was a holdover from when I was trying the shock field variant and was trying to get a large max voltage pool. This piece could easily be replaced for something offering more damage or survivability with a ). 

 is not too difficult to farm up and in fact is a Daily Log in bonus (Day 6).

 and can both be farmed off Crossbones, making this prep a little easier for you I hope. The helmet gives us +5 fighting for 5s after a crit. We have guaranteed crits on our  and . The teaching manual has alot of good stuff on it for us, the hardest part of farming this up may be getting one w/ archetype stats you don't want.

Team Up

I went with Agent Coulson because I wanted the damage. Since I cleared with 1 minute to spare, I'm thinking that Jessica Jones could have worked out as well. Make surviving a bit easier at the cost of a little bit of damage.

Playstyle

This is a melee build.  is on my left click. I pretty much hold this down the entire time to fill damage between cds and to keep engaged on the enemy.  is a nice DoT that also slows and applies weaken. Don't spam this, you'll drain all your Voltage. Use it about every 8s. A nice way to track this is is to use it right before  and/or  both of those abilities are on an 8s CD. So you can use them to track the duration of your kiss DoT. Aside from managing that everything else you use on CD. Keep in mind that your signature  will reset your cooldowns. So use it after you've blown everything else so you can spam them all again. 

Widow's ult is a thing, it's there. I wasn't too impressed but it's better to use it than not. So blow it while fighting Red Skull right after a shield phase.

During minion phases of the fight remember that  and  will hit all enemies in front of you so try to position to hit multiple enemies with these two abilities as well as your . 

 is an execute, but don't sit on it. This ability and your Deadly Kick each give 5% damage. That buff lasts for 10s and their cds are 8s. If you use these two on CD like you should be you should always have a 10% damage boost.

Like with everything else use  on cooldown. We have a talent that makes its effect occur a second time at no cost.

Hopefully this guide helps you clear the Cosmic Trial on Black Widow, so you can get to farming better gear, more IP and move on to bigger and better guides. Have fun out there and good luck!

Thanks!

Lil