Cassy

Cassy

Cassy is a Guardian Tower that can be bought in the shop for 5,000. She is a Melee Tower and uses a Bat to punt and knock back enemies. She's created and designed by the Community Manager - Dion (Dionnooo).

Statistics

Level	Damage	Firerate	Range	DPS	Other
0	5	0.9	7	5.56	N/A
1	5	0.9	7	5.56	Can knock back more enemies.
2	8	0.9	8	8.89	Increases damage and range.
3	8	0.8	8	10	Knocks enemies further, and swings faster.
4	10	0.8	8	12.5	Increases damage, and can detect hidden enemies.
5	15	0.7	9	21.43	Blood Loan: All Ruby Towers gain x2 attack speed for 6 seconds, but will become inactive for 1 second after. 30 seconds cooldown.
6	22	0.7	9	31.43	Increases damage and knockback.
7	30	0.6	9	50	Increases damage, swings faster, and can hit more enemies.
8	45	0.6	9	75	Increases damage and knockback even more. Blood Loan effect now lasts longer.
9	60	0.5	9	120	Increases damage, and swings faster.
10	90	0.5	10	180	Increases damage and range and can hit more enemies.
11	90	0.5	10	180	Knockback is increased, and can hit even more enemies.
12	200	0.4	10	500	Increases damage greatly, and swings even faster, and Blood Loan lasts longer.
13	200	0.4	11	500	Increases knockback and range.
14	300	0.3	11	1,000	Damage, knockback, and attack speed is increased, and can hit more zombies in a single swing.
15	500	0.3	13	1,666.67	Damage and knockback becomes deadly, and all towers can have 2 master upgrades instead of 1. Blood Loan now lasts for 15 seconds and removes stun penalty.

Tactics

• Using Cassy in multiplayer is especially effective as level 15 can enable up to 8 master upgrades of a single tower at a time (up from 4)
  • If using Cassy for this reason in multiplayer, make sure only one player brings her as the effects won't stack.
• Placing Cassy and a high-damage tower near each other is very effective as the knockback effect will allow Enemies to be damaged for longer.
• Using Blood Loan during a rush of fast enemies isn't advised because the time towers are spend disabled can quickly prove fatal on shorter maps.
  • At level 15, you can use Cassy ability at any crucial timing without stun penalty
• Cassy is mostly a support Guardian due to her stun, buffing ability and level 15 upgrade. She still has lots of capability in offense, however.

Trivia

• Cassy is considered a guest character, as she wasn't made for Arena Tower Defense itself but rather added to the game without having anything to do with ATD.
  • This is because Cassy is an original character created by Dion before ATD was created, and was added because Dion agreed that she could be added to the game as a standalone character. Her lore has similarities to that of ATD but there are a lot of differences.
• Cassy's real name is Cassandra Graeyy.
  • Her canon demon race outside of ArenaDev is called Graundiy.
• In game, Cassy appears on the developer fact quote rotation. It states that she was made all in one day, however this is untrue.
  • Cassy had earlier in Arena : Ballistic, and was simply ported over to Defense, so she was not made in one day.
• Cassy also appeared in another game before Arena Tower Defense, called "Arena : Ballistic!" which is another game created by ArenaDev.
• Bosses are more resistant to Cassy's knockback effect and only get stalled minimally at worst.
  • Only the Void Lords and Massive Void are fully immune to the knockback.
• Cassy was a character made by Community Manager Dion, and was not intended to be made for the game, until Billie wanted to add it.
  • This is a similar case to the Shadette Skin.
• Based on her lore, Cassy became first before Ruby Queen, as she is the 10th Royal Demon Descendant and Ruby Queen is the 11th. However, Cassy isn't destined to be the one on the throne.
  • The reason for this is because of her purple eyes, as purple is seen as the color of the rival team (Amethyst Tribe).
    • Funnily enough, the amethyst tribe doesn't really want much to do with her either, as she's still a Ruby by blood.
  • This was also hinted in the profile card, "Rest Stop".
  • This is exclusive to the game's lore, not canon lore.
• Cassy is one of the few towers to not have any major changes when being ported over from Arena: Ballistic, as seen by her existing page.
• The Apocalpyse Skin was inspired by art drawings and designs by an ArenaDev member, Collin.
  • Collin himself stated that it was somewhat inspired by Gebura/Kali (AKA The Red Mist) from the Project Moon games Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina.
• The 'lore' acccurate Cassy used to wield a wooden bat as a teen, but this has changed to become a heavy metal bat as she grew older.^{[1] [2]}
• Anti-Cassandra, Cassy's character derivative, has appeared in game in the form the Twin skin for Cassy.