Cassia

Cassia
"The wait is over."
Basic Info
Title	Amazon Warmatron
Role	Ranged Assassin
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Diablo
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	April 4, 2017
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1660
Health Regen	3.46
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.6875
Attack Speed	1.11
Attack Range	4.5
Attack Damage	122
Data Page

Cassia, the Amazon Warmatron, is a Ranged Assassin Hero hero from the Diablo universe. After shattering the Worldstone, the young Amazon Cassia had changed. She had seen hatred, terror, and destruction firsthand. If the Askari were to survive the coming darkness, they needed an army. She would begin their training immediately.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to Diablo universe.

Cassia is one of the amazons of the Askarri tribe at Skovos Isles. Following a prophecy from its oracles about the rise of the Prime Evils, Cassia departed from the isles and joined with several warriors (including Xul) to pursue the Dark Wanderer. Eventually they ended up killing all three of the Prime Evils but had to witness the destruction of the Worldstone by Tyrael to prevent the essence of Baal corrupting it and also the world itself. With her mission done, Cassia returned to the Skovos Isles, changed but still normal, training future amazons to fight against oncoming darkness.

Gameplay

Cassia is a Ranged Assassin who specializes against Physical Attackers and deals increased damage to Blinded enemies.

Strength

• Durable against damage as long as she can keep moving, see: stutter stepping.
• Can poke from long range with Lightning Fury
• Good waveclear with Fend if Minions are Blind

Weaknesses

• Has lower Basic Attack range compared to other ranged Heroes
• No escapes
• Vulnerable during Stuns, Roots and Sleeps

Abilities

See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

Avoidance

While moving, Cassia gradually gains up to 30 Armor over 3 seconds. After remaining stationary for 0.75 seconds the Armor is rapidly lost over 0.5 seconds.

Avoidance remains charged while Fending.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Armor

Tickrate: 16 per second

Duration: 0.6875 seconds

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• Grants one stack of Avoidance every 0.0625 seconds, increasing Cassia's Armor by 0.625. While stationary, Cassia loses 6 stacks every 0.0625 seconds.
• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Q

Lightning Fury

20 Mana Cooldown: 5 / 1.0 seconds

Hurl a lightning javelin that deals 158 damage to the first enemy hit and splits into two lightning bolts that deal 158 damage to enemies in their path.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Bounce, Clamping, Skillshot

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range:
- Primary: 11.1
- Secondary: 8.95

Hitbox:
- Primary: 0.6 x 1.25
- Secondary: 0.6 x 1.0

Missile speed: 16

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• Holds 2 charges.
• Secondary projectiles do not split and can hit enemies that are immune to skillshots. Otherwise, they have the same on-hit properties as the initial missile and interact with all talents affecting Lightning Fury.
• Primary target cannot be hit by the splitting secondary bolts.

W

Blinding Light

50 Mana Cooldown: 15 seconds

After 0.5 seconds, deal 50 damage and Blind enemies in the target area for 2 seconds.

Passive: Cassia deals 15% increased damage to Blinded targets.

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Type: Spell Damage, Status effect / Offensive damage modifier

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Blind

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 8.0

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0

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• Passive bonus triggers from all Blinds.
• Passive bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Cassia's Basic Attack damage.

E

Fend

50 Mana Cooldown: 10 / 0.5 seconds

Charge at an enemy, and upon arriving channel for 1.5 seconds, dealing 64 damage to enemies in front of Cassia every 0.25 seconds. Deals 50% reduced damage to non-Heroes. Avoidance remains charged while Channeling.

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Type: Spell Damage / Movement: Dash

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Area of Effect, Stationary channel

Cast time: Instant

Range: 6.0

Area of Effect: Radial

Radius: 6.0

Arc: 45 degrees

Missile speed: 7.0 (dash)

Tickrate: 8.0 per second (x12)

Damage per tick: 32

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• Structures cannot be directly targeted, but can take area damage from Fend.
• Fend is interrupted if the target moves farther than 12 range from Cassia.
• Fend's channel can be canceled after 0.5 seconds by reactivating the ability.
• Damage penalty against non-Heroes stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Fend's damage.

R

Ball Lightning

60 Mana Cooldown: 60 seconds

Throw a ball of lightning at an enemy Hero that bounces up to 6 times between nearby enemy Heroes and Cassia, dealing 180 damage to enemies hit.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Bounce

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 5

Radius: 5.5 (bounce)

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x7)

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• Initial cast is interrupted if the target moves more than 3 units beyond its maximum range.
• Prioritizes the closest enemy Hero and only bounces back to Cassia if there are no enemy Heroes in its bounce range.
• Ball Lightning going through Cassia consumes a bounce normally.
• Cannot bounce to enemies out of vision.
• Ball Lightning grants vision in 4.0 radius around the projectile.

R

Valkyrie

60 Mana Cooldown: 60 seconds

Summon a Valkyrie that rushes to Cassia after 0.75 seconds, pulling the first enemy Hero hit, dealing 225 damage and Stunning them for 0.5 seconds at the end of her path. The Valkyrie knocks back all other enemy Heroes in her way.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Knockback, Skillshot, Stun

Cast time: 0.125 + 0.25 seconds

Range: 12

Hitbox: 3.0x0.75

Missile speed: 12

Knockback duration:
- Primary: 1.0 seconds (max)
- Secondary: 0.1875

Knockback speed:
- Primary: 12
- Secondary: 20

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• Damage is dealt upon impact, and the Stun is applied when the impaled enemy Hero reaches the cast location.
• The impaled enemy is Unstoppable while being pulled by Valkyrie.
• Secondary targets are knocked away perpendicular to Valkyrie's direction.

Talents

1

Thunderstroke

Increase the damage of Lightning Fury by 15.

❢ Quest: Lightning Fury's damage is increased by 1.5 every time it hits a Hero.

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Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability

Impale

Increase Fend's cast range and area of effect by 25%. It deals an additional 50% damage to enemies below 50% Health.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

Bonus cast range: 1.25

Bonus radius: 1.5

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• Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Fend's damage.

Charged Strikes

Gain 15% Attack Speed. Every 3rd Basic Attack deals 20% bonus damage and bounces to nearby enemy Heroes.

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Type: Physical Damage / Offensive damage modifier

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes / Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Attack Modifier (non-Structures), Bounce

Cast time: Instant

Radius: 3.5

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• Bounce radius is extended by the target's unit radius.
• Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Cassia's Basic Attack damage.
• Still progresses through the 3-hit cycle if Cassia is Blinded or the target is Evading, though the 3rd hit bonus will also miss entirely in that case.

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Plate of the Whale

Regenerate 6 Health per second while Avoidance is active. If fully charged gain an additional 12 Health per second.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

Ring of the Leech

Basic Attacks against your primary target heal you for 20% of their damage. If an enemy is Blinded, this also affects Lightning Fury and Fend.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Lifesteal

Inner Light

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Activate to heal for 25% of your maximum Health over 5 seconds. Enemy Heroes hit by Lightning Fury lower the cooldown of this ability by 10 seconds.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Heal over Time

Cast time: Instant

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x10)

7

Grounding Rod

Enemies hit by Lightning Fury or Fend are Slowed by 20% for 2 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Slow

Seraph's Hymn

Primary Basic Attacks against an enemy Hero grant 10 Mana and reduce the cooldown of Blinding Light by 2 seconds.

Passive: Increase the passive damage bonus of Blinding Light from 15% to 30%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• Stacks additively with other damage modifiers affecting Cassia's Basic Attack damage output, including baseline bonus damage against Blinded targets.

Surge of Light

Cooldown: 0.25 seconds
Active: After taking 650 damage with Avoidance active, Cassia can activate Avoidance to deal 220 damage to enemies around her.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00% (damage & threshold)

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.5

10

Ball Lightning

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Throw a ball of lightning at an enemy Hero that bounces up to 6 times between nearby enemy Heroes and Cassia, dealing 180 damage to enemies hit.

Valkyrie

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Summon a Valkyrie that rushes to Cassia after 0.75 seconds, pulling the first enemy Hero hit, dealing 225 damage and Stunning them for 0.5 seconds at the end of her path. The Valkyrie knocks back all other enemy Heroes in her way.

13

War Matron

Cassia becomes Protected while channeling Fend and for 1 additional second if the channel is completed.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Protected

War Traveler

Gain 5% Movement Speed. While Avoidance is fully charged, gain an additional 10% Movement Speed and Mounting is instant.

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Type: Status effect

Properties: Movement Speed buff

Gloves of Alacrity

Gain 1 Basic Attack range. While Avoidance is fully charged, gain an additional 1 Basic Attack range.

16

Power Strike

Lightning Fury pierces, but only splits on Heroes. Enemy Heroes hit reduce its cooldown by 1 second and become marked for 15 seconds. Upon reaching 3 marks, remove the marks and cast a Blinding Light at their feet.

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Type: Spell Damage / Crowd control

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• Reapplying a mark refreshes its duration.

Static Electricity

Gain 2 additional charges of Lightning Fury. Fend's impact launches a lightning bolt toward each nearby enemy Hero.

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Type: Spell Damage

Affects: Enemies

Radius: 6.5

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• "Lightning bolts" have the same properties as secondary projectiles from Lightning Fury.

Martial Law

Basic attacks against enemy Heroes deal bonus damage equal to 1% of their maximum Health. Increase this to 3% if they are Stunned, Rooted, Slowed, or Blinded.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Attack Modifier, Percent Damage

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• The percent damage still hits even if Cassia is Blinded or if the target is Evading.

20

Infinite Lightning

Ball Lightning can now bounce indefinitely. Every bounce reduces its cooldown by 5 seconds.

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• It is possible to have multiple Ball Lightnings active simultaneously.

Imprisoning Light

The impaled Hero is Blinded for 5 seconds. Upon impaling a Hero, Cassia's Valkyrie creates a wave of light that deals 200 damage to nearby enemies. The wave Silences and Roots them for 3 seconds.

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Type: Spell damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect, Blind, Root, Silence

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

Wave delay: 0.0625 seconds

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• Blind is applied when the target arrives at the end location.
• The pull target takes the additional damage upon impact as well, but is not affected by the Root and Silence effects.

Titan's Revenge

Cassia's Basic Attacks now ignore Armor and while Avoidance is fully charged they deal an additional 20% bonus damage.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• Titan's Revenge empowered Basic Attacks only ignore positive Armor.
• Bonus damage stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Cassia's Basic Attack damage.
• Basic Attacks still consume enemy Block stacks after taking this Talent (without their damage being reduced by those stacks).

Rockstopper

Cooldown: 30 seconds
Activate to fully charge Avoidance and increase its Armor value to 60 for 4 seconds

Losing Avoidance removes this bonus.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifires may stack.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Cassia Guide

Cassia Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Cassia Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Quotes

Main article: Cassia/Quotes

Skins

Cassia Skins
Amazon Warmatron
Backstory: After shattering the Worldstone, the young Amazon Cassia had changed. She had seen hatred, terror, and destruction firsthand. If the Askari were to survive the coming darkness, they needed an army. She would begin their training immediately.
750 / 10,000 Amazon Warmatron	Free Wondrous	Free Wild	120 / 75 Soaring
Pirate Queen
Backstory: From their secret hideout in Kraken's Cave, Cassia's fleet of ships unfurl their black sails on a mission to loot and plunder. Mistharbour will soon bow to a new pirate queen.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Mistharbour skins.
250 / 300	250 / 300 Seafury	250 / 300 Bloodsail	250 / 300 Whirlpool	250 / 300 Velvet
Thunder Goddess
Backstory: Cassia, deity of thunder and leader of the pantheon, assumes many forms, but most know her as an imposing warrior, clad in spotless bronze and armed with javelins of lightning.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of "Greek Gods".
350 / 400	350 / 400 Wild	350 / 400 Cursed	350 / 400 Serene	350 / 400 Vengeful
Warmatron
Backstory: After her victory against the Prime Evils, Cassia ascended through the ranks of the Askari to become their most legendary commander. The Warmatron's battle armor is a gift from Queen Xaera herself.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Deadwalker	120 / 75 Caldeum	120 / 75 Askari	120 / 75 Aranoch

Cassia Event Skins
Lunar
Backstory: Though Cassia was skeptical of the Nexus's Lunar Festival at first, the act of honoring ancient gods and elders rings true to her Askari roots. She now gladly takes part in the festivities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Azure	120 / 75 Jade	120 / 75 Midnight	120 / 75 Honored

Portraits

Cassia Portraits
Carbot Cassia120 / 75	Cassia Emblem75 / 40	Cassia Hero	Cassia Mastery	Thunder Goddess Cassia75 / 40	Lil' Lunar Cassia75 / 40	Toon Lunar Cassia75 / 40
Toon Thunder Goddess Cassia75 / 40	Wondrous Cassia75 / 40

Sprays

Cassia Sprays
Carbot Cassia120 / 75	Feast-ival Cassia120 / 75	Pirate Queen Cassia75 / 40	Thunder Goddess Cassia75 / 40

Emojis

Cassia Pack 1			Cassia Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Cassia Happy	:cassiahappy: :casshappy:		Cassia Angry	:cassiaangry: :cassangry:
	Cassia ROFL	:cassialol: :cassiarofl: :casslol: :cassrofl:		Cassia Cool	:cassiacool: :casscool:
	Cassia Sad	:cassiasad: :casssad:		Cassia Embarrassed	:cassiaoops: :cassiaembarrassed: :cassoops: :cassembarrassed:
	Cassia Silly	:cassiasilly: :casssilly:		Cassia in Love	:cassialove: :cassiainlove: :casslove: :cassinlove:
	Cassia Speechless	:cassiameh: :cassiaspeechless: :cassmeh: :cassspeechless:		Cassia Surprised	:cassiawow: :cassiasurprised: :casswow: :casssurprised:

Trivia

• Cassia represents the Amazon class from Diablo II (June 2000).
• Cassia is a javelin-using Amazon, commonly referred to by Diablo players as a Javazon.
• Cassia is voiced by Jessica Straus.
• Wondrous Cassia is a reference to Wonder Woman.
• Bloodsail Pirate Queen Cassia is a reference to the Bloodsail Buccaneers from World of Warcraft (November 2004).
• A number of Cassia's talents reference items and skills from Diablo II:
  • Cassia's trait, Avoidance, is similar in name to Avoid and similar in function to Evade, both from the Passive and Magic Skills tree.
  • The talent Charged Strikes references Charged Strike from the Javelin Skills tree.
  • The talent Impale references Impale from the Spear Skills tree.
  • The talent Pierce references Pierce from the Passive and Magic Skills tree.
  • The talent Penetrate references Penetrate are a reference to the Skill from the Passive and Magic skills tree.
  • The talent Inner Light may be a variation on Inner Sight from the Passive and Magic Skills tree.
  • The talents Thunderstroke, Seraph's Hymn, War Traveler, Thundergod's Vigor, and Titan's Revenge are references to Unique items of the same names.
  • The talents Plate of the Whale and Ring of the Leech use Diablo II item suffixes. The Whale suffix gives the wearer a bonus to health; the Leech suffix grants lifesteal.

Gallery

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  Cassia's artwork

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  Cassia home screen

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  Thunder Goddess Cassia Concept Art

Abilities

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  Q: Lightning Fury

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  W: Blinding Light

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  E: Fend

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  R1: Ball Lightning

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  R2: Valkyrie

External links

• Cassia Hero Week
• Cassia - Heroes of the Storm
• Cassia - Diablo Wiki (Wikia)
• Cassia Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Cassia Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm