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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 4029059" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm not sure whether your point is one about encounters with Pit Fiends + minions, or about single Pit Fiends.But anyway, looking at the current SLAs:*create undead: largely irrelevant in combat, and is apt to be replicable via Rituals in 4e if desired. *greater teleport: in 4e it has teleport as a movement type, and some good ideas on this have already been given in this thread (plus there may be relevant Rituals here also). *fireball, meteor swarm: replaced by Aura of Fire and Irrestible Command, so no obvious net loss of the ability to do fire damage. *magic circle against good, unholy aura: the buffs are already factored into its stats, and the strength damage from the unholy aura is subsumed into its Aura of Fear. *blasphemy, mass hold monster, power word stun: these are a mixture of penalty-infliction and action-denial (as Med Stud noted, they are not manipulation abilities) - in 4e, Point of Terror as a minor (swift? I assume) action seems to do the job nicely, not requiring the Pit Fiend to forego a standard action (it seems pretty likely that 4e will not have magical action-denial, and that this will have to be achieved through actual battlefield tactics, which the Pit Fiend will achieve via minions). *greater dispel magic: I wouldn't be surprise if dispel magic and anti-magic field as we know them are gone, but to the extent that this acts as a debuff then Point of Terror takes its place.That leaves invisibility and persistent image as the two abilities that have not had some functional equivalent substituted for them.I have two comments on that: (i) I don't know that a lot of people will miss illusionist Pit Fiends, and (ii) this is not really the loss of a raft of tactical options - invisibility is not very tactically complex (and at that level, won't most parties have some sort of true seeing up anyway?), so all that's really gone is deception via illusions. And that's been replaced by Tactical Teleport, which gives the Pit Fiend battlefield control via minions.</blockquote>

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