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

!00% humble brag - also just illustrates how broken this character is. I hit 60. Put on 0 artifacts. No legendary. No Uru. No relic. No synergies. And still, Carnage cruised through the trial. If you want a character to cosmic farm on that needs as little items and IP as possible going into it, this might be your dude.

Synergies

I would focus on health, melee and physical damage in my synergies. That's why I put the ones in the build that I did. I also threw Carnage's own synergy in there for bonus on hit.

Infinities

I went with the Time Gem - Temporal Loop Hole for the Attack and Move Speed. 

Gear

- I just went for the highest damage ilvl 70 option.  could also work if you're dying alot.

For artifacts I prioritized Durability, Strength and Health. All of the artifacts I put in the build are pretty easy to find and/or target farm.

His own uniques work great for slot 1-5.

For the medkit you want the shield on med kit use. Other than that prioritize your stats (STR, DUR), health, and health on hit.

 

Team Up

I went with Agent Coulson but I think Jessica Jones could have helped with the minion phase for grouping them up.

Playstyle

 

For the most part we are going to use our abilities on CD. The only thing we really have to manage is . Thanks to our row 1 talent, if we use it while over 75% resource it will give us symbiotic armor. Which greatly helps with our tankiness and our damage. It stacks 3 times. So we want to use it on CD but only if we have over 75% resource. So our job is to generate enough symbiotic protection during this abilities cooldown. Our two knife abilities  and  lower each other's cooldowns when used.

-Bound to left click. Hold it down. It will auto follow your enemy. It's a movement ability so if you're holding this down w/ your cursor on an enemy and dodge Carnage will jump right back to the enemy. Gets buffed up by other abilities. Does not generate Symbiotic Protection.

- High damage ability. Generates Symbiotic Protection. Use on CD. Also lowers the CD of .

- Ranged ability so if you have any artifacts that proc off range use this will cover that. Also applies Grievous Wounds and generates Symbiotic Protection. Use on CD.

- Our dash. Good for dodging abilities. W/ our basic being a movment ability its super easy to get back into the fight too.

- Signature. Spins around hitting everyone. Regenerates health and gives you DR during the duration. You will generate a full Symbiotic Protection. I always filled my Symbiotic Protection to full. Used my , then popped this signature to refill the Symbiotic Protection again so I could get another stack right away by using  as soon as it was off CD again. Good way to open a fight.

 - Slows, applies Grievous Wounds (note these two instances of GW will not stack). Builds Symbiotic Protection. Use on CD.

- Super important for activating the buff talked about in the intro. Use on CD but only if your Symbiotic Protection is over 75%.

- High damage ability. Generates Symbiotic Protection. Use on CD. Also lowers the CD of . Prioritize the two knife moves over the two axe moves. We have more talents upping the damage of those.

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