Renee (Argent)Build and Guide

Renee (Argent) is an INT Caster Fairy Soul (Released 08 May 2025) that primarily depends on her Absolute Zero passive to empower her skills and deal damage.

• Passive: Absolute Zero - The core of her kit. Using any ally's main skill will give Renee (Argent) a stack of Mana Release (at the end of the skill cast), which increases her Attack (7.5% x 4 Stacks). Upon accumulating 4 stacks, These stacks are converted into “Absolute Zero” for 24s which increases her Attack by 40% and empowers her other skills. Renee (Argent) cannot gain Mana Release stacks while Absolute Zero is active.

• Main: Icicle Spear - Deals Damage to farthest enemy. If “Absolute Zero” is active the attack is guaranteed Critical Hit and additional 100% damage is dealt.

• S1: Cryo Spike - Deals Damage to nearest enemy & inflicts Stun for 2s.  If “Absolute Zero” is active, it increases damage and turns to a small AoE (2.5m) around the nearest target.

• S2: Glacial Magnum - Teleports behind the furthest enemy and attacks them. She is immune to CC while using this skill. If “Absolute Zero” is active, inflict Freeze DoT on the target for 6s.

• Ultimate: Icicle Fist: Deals AoE (6m) damage to nearest target and Stuns them for 4s. If “Absolute Zero” is active, it inflicts Arctic Mana (Freeze Dot) for 24s.

• Artifact: Nuada Airgetlam (Argent):  Increases self damage dealt by 5-35% and self Crit Damage by 10-23% for 24s when “Absolute Zero” is triggered. If “Absolute Zero” is active, all Fairy allies recover 300-500 Mana/2s and other allies recover 150-250/2s. At Legendary+ she gains a stack of Mana Release every 10 sec and at Origin, Mana Release can now be stacked with “Absolute Zero”

Story time: Renee (Argent) released to rather controversial circumstances in the Asia Server. Her event had a ton of bugs, and she wasn’t even available for summoning due to a technical error for most of the first day of her debut. The devs were quick to fix this, but she remains the subject of contention due to an unsatisfactory compensation plan (which left hundreds of glitchy pickup summons hand waved as collective server luck-issue). 

Which is ironic, because Renee (Argent) is rather mediocre. Her kit is largely vanilla until her passive comes online - a huge handicap in PvE situations as the fight would be over by then. In addition, without access to easy crit rate buffs, the crit damage self-buffs provided by her artifact go largely underutilised, with only her Main gaining Guaranteed Critical Hits with her Passive. The most unique part of her kit, periodic mana gain for all allies, is also locked to her artifact.

As of present, she lacks the wow factor to replace any unit in Meta Guild Raid Teams (outside Dark Knight) and certainly won't be the first choice to push PvE content. 

Investment:

As a DPS, we always recommend Origin Ascension and L+ artifact as a baseline.  Priority should go to her artifact, which improves both her personal damage and support capabilities simultaneously.

Team Synergies:

Renee (Argent) can be used as a supportive sub-DPS in mostly raid scenarios, thanks to her Artifact. Ideally, she wants Hanul or other Crit Rate buffing souls in order to supplement her ailing Crit Rate to maximize her CDMG gains. She also pairs well in thematic comps, be it a Chalar-heavy team (thanks to Weiss artifact and Freeze synergies), or a Fairy Heavy team (thanks to Renee’s own artifact)

Conclusion:

To summarize, Renee is a perfectly skippable unit, be it for Guild Raids or PvE. High artifact investment, restrictions in her kit, and low Crit Rates hold back her feasibility.  However she does hold some utility as a support with Mana Recovery in certain Raids, and will find some room in comps, but is not a priority otherwise.