I don't know what changes they made to the Possession skill recently, but it has been rendered fully obsolete. It essentially works the same as Stun now, only causing enemies to "Recharge" except for when they use a self-buffing move that helps or heals them even though they are possessed.

When my team gets possessed though, wow, look out, I'm lucky if I don't end up using my strongest aoe attack on my own team, with recharging happening once in a blue moon. I've been having this experience with Possession for weeks now, and it's extremely irritating.

They will say it's chance based. But I'm sure those chances are tweaked to work against player's favor. Out of 10 possessions 9 times the enemies will recharge. However when my team gets possessed 9 out of 10 times they use their most devastating skills to totally obliterate me. So much fun.

I noticed that, the enemy tends to recharge more often.

possession is not useless, while a possessed enemy might recharge, a possessed ally will either kill your team, heal the enemy or remove their negative effects...

Did anyone find out about this? In PvP today I just had the enemy recharge on every possession. SP have made changes but I haven't seen anything official. They have also brought back the chance of a monster getting a special on first turn which they admitted to taking out. The balance is wrong again

@tom6969 I saw 3 specials in 3 battles. Hasnt happened for quite a long time

I really hope they did not do that.

I have also taken on a xiron the Ruby that got 3 specials in one battle out of about 8 turns. Shall I do the maths and see if that's a 3% chance

i can confirm both , last 2-3 wars i've noticed possessed enemies recharge almost everytime and had 2 particularly nasty battles last war when timerion got his special 3 times , same with cryotan last week , every battle i fought against him he got his special

We fixed the Possession issue in version 8.1.4
And I tried by myself and works as expected.
Are you experimenting this issue in a recent version?

@carlos yes happened on 8.2 just recently

I agree. I've been having it for ages and still on 8.2!

@webdevour said in What happened to Possession? It's completely useless now.:
It essentially works the same as Stun now, only causing enemies to "Recharge"

Actually, I'd rather stun them so they don't gain that stamina by recharging.

In Live Duels Possession causes both the enemy and your monsters to recharge like 80% of the time.

No as of 9.04 the enemy they recharge 90% of the time, and your team of course doesn't recharge 90%, but around, 20% of the time! Its really irritating, and very stupid.

@monstrousmaniac they really do recharge a lot ...