Despite the efforts to fix it in 0.983, the bug which prevents AI and Monsters to use special abilities when auto-resolving battles seems to persist!

Specifically, this bug can be seen with the dark wizard's despair spell and also poison damage (see thread https://forums.elementalgame.com/433518)

For the AI players this is a huge imbalancer since AI gets real strong when using combat and much weaker when using magic

For the player it provides a major cheat option and delivers a critical hit on gameplay, immersion and battle resolution.

PLEASE go deep into this and make sure it gets fully resolved before final release...