Hello! This is a guide to get you through the Cosmic Trial with Beast. Note: This is NOT the best Beast. It is NOT end game Beast. You will not find the BiS items in this build. 

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. 

Many Beast builds seemed to be go for a mix of Brain and Brawn skills, which makes sense thematically for Beast and probably makes a much stronger Beast. I went with just Brawn and mostly focused on movement because he's blue and it made me wanna go fast.

Synergies

Beast, Cable, Elektra, Hulk, Moon Knight, Nightcrawler, She Hulk, Wolverine, Ultron, and Squirrel Girl.

Infinities

I went with the Deep Thought - Mind Gem for the increase to my maximum Momentum.

Gear 

 - I used this artifact for a the extra defense. Beast is always in the thick of things with this  build so I liked having the defenseive option.

 - gives me some fighting and damage stats but some max momentum as well.  - max momentum, plus the way this build plays you drain your momentum often getting that bonus from this artifact.  - has some damage stats and adds some beefiness.  - is a favorite of mine on int based characters. Any high damage artifact you have can replace this though.

Our medkit is pretty important as well. Get a catalyst that gives you back spirit on medkit use to get that momentum over half when you need to.

Team Up

 

I went with Jessica Jones for her ability group enemies up, which makes it easier to break dance on them. 

Playstyle

 

Beasts playstyle is very much breakdancing. We need to have our momentum over half to do our main combo. Then we're going to spend our momentum to zero before using one of our two refresher abilities to get our momentum back to full and start the whole thing all over again. If that was confusing, stay with me, maybe it will make more sense after I go over each ability on our bar.

- This is our spender, not filler. Hit it on your foe one time before going through your "teamwork combo" (the next two abilities + the bleed) then spam this to drain your momentum. We have ways to fill it back up. 

- Use this teamwork skill first. You have to be over 50% momentum. If you're close to 50% momentum you can use your  to get some momentum back or your . 

-Use this after the previous teamwork skill. It will get +30% damage. This one does not require momentum to cast.

-Our dodge roll. Breaks CC etc. Also gives back 5% of momentum on use. Can be used to get small amounts of momentum to get back over 50% if needed to use .

- Does damage. Provides invulnerability and thanks to our last row talent will refill our momentum.

-Applies a bleed. It can stack 2x. Does more damage if used over 50% momentum. Use it right before your "teamwork combo".

- Its here for momentum regen not damage. Can channel for up to 3 seconds. You get back 15% momentum per second.

- Let it stack to 4 before using it. If you use all 4 charges in 5 seconds (spam it don't even worry about aiming it super precise just get all 4 casts off in 5s) you will get a buff and your momentum will recharge.

So as you can see we have 2 full momentum recharges and 2 other abilities that give us some momentum back. Typically onto them 2x to apply the bleed. Then one . Then  into . Now spam  to empty your momentum pool. Now use  4x to trigger the buff and refill momentum. Do your combo again. This time use  to refill your momentum. Keep repeating. Use our other refill abilities if you need some momentum and the two main refillers aren't ready or you can squeeze in a second use of your combo in between the refills.

Hopefully this helps you clear the Cosmic Trial so that you can start farming your best gear and move on to bigger and better content and bigger and better guides! Have fun out there.

Thanks!

 Lil