Hello! This is a guide to get you through the Cosmic Trial with Black Bolt. Note: This is NOT the best Black Bolt. It is NOT end game Black Bolt. 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. 

When I first cleared the Trail pre 1.0 release and pre crafting I barely scraped by and got it done just under the timer. Adding helped a ton in that area, along with .

 

Synergies

I did not have all the synergies I listed in this guide. I would recommend getting as many of these if not all that you can. We're looking for phys/energy damage and crit.

Infinities

I stacked them all into the Time Stone - Temporal Loophole.

Gear 

- This is a solid legendary at level 70. Most heroes use this legendary at 70 with few exceptions. Having one of these can be good as when you've moved on to your lvl 80 legendary you can unbind this and put it on another hero. 

 - is also a choice for Black Bolt.

- Can be farmed from Crossbones in Patrol Zones. Make sure you equip the energy version.

- Good starter Artifact. Useful on pretty much every hero.

- Not too hard to farm off Elektra, I've gotten a handful off her in Story Mode. Can also be farmed from her in Midtown.

- Drops off the Hood. Can be farmed in Midtown or his Termina. Also shows up in ICP.

  - Black Bolt reliably procs the energy and physical damage for this medallion to benefit from the bonus +2 fighting.

Med Kit is a key component to any build. The shield on medkit use adds survivability to any hero and the spirit on medkit use can help solve a lot of spirit issues early game.

 - Helps immensely with spirit issues also. 

Slot 1-5 His own uniques should be fine. If you are looking for more places to find power adding Challenge Bonuse to your uniques is a great way to do it. You most likely have more random challenge tokens. Add the random challenge bonus to your unique and just reroll until you get on of your two archetype stats.

Team Up

Jessica Jones is really useful for gathering enemies and making the fight more organized and she'll do a little bit of tanking for you.

Playstyle

Our basic playstyle is to use our CDs to fill our charge meter. When we have charge our  adds execute damage and our  has a much lower CD. 

- Bound to the left click. Hold it down. Filler.

-Builds charge. Use it on CD.

-Builds charge. Use it on CD.

-I didn't need to use my dash much. Other abilities followed enemies and I had the jump. Good for CC removal. Can also be used to get the crit bonus from the ring.

-Not the signature anymore thanks to talent choices. Restores 50% of charge.

-Repositioning tool. Provides vulnerable. Great way to start a fight.

-If you have charge (which you basically always will). It's a 2s CD. It gives you DR. Like everything else use on CD. 

-This is your big damage. All our eggs are in this basket. Try not to hit a boss shield (like I did, almost cost me the Trial too). Thanks to a talent choice this is your new signature. You should have full charge when you use this (I practically was always at full). Try not to throw this into Madame Hydra or Red Skull's shield (like I did).

 

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