niiice one. tyvm as i need that badge on a few but hate to grind it out. but may i suggest taking out the word "farm" as we know there are so many haters towards farming but if there were no farmers we would all starve to death 
my new word for it is "massive arrest sweep"
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Or you can use a tank (or two) to herd the Master Illusionists into a corner somewhere and have a Fire Controller (or two) put Fire Cages on Auto.
The Immob keeps the MIs in place. The DoT damages the Ills enough to get credit for them when they vanish, and the DoT is not enough to kill the MIs.
There is no running around to do, you don't even have to be at the computer, and it usually takes significantly less time than your method.
I have a lvl 41 mission saved on one of my characters and have run this several times.
Bon Anniversaire (in half a month), Mateo.
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Bon Anniversaire (in half a month), Mateo.
[/ QUOTE ] lol that's random.. but Thanks! 
And it's actually almost one full month, June 13th.
Bah! "I'm an idea man. Don't bother me with details!"
Okay, what was I going to... Oh yeah. That Illusionist badge...
Can that be obtained by using an Aoe or aura on an MI's spawns to get in some damage and then just let them despawn? Or do we have to actaully defeat the phantasms completely and only the phantasms (not the other ILL pets)?
I remember camping out by a pair of MIs in PI (at the two skyscrapers in the middle of the map) to complete one of Harvey's Defeat 65 Carnies missions a few years ago. Can we get the ILL badge that way?
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Can that be obtained by using an Aoe or aura on an MI's spawns to get in some damage and then just let them despawn? Or do we have to actaully defeat the phantasms completely and only the phantasms (not the other ILL pets)?
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Can we get the ILL badge that way?
[/ QUOTE ] Yes. You only need to do as much as -1 on them. You don't have to fully defeat them. You'll get the credit when they vanish.
Anyone know of a good carnie mission villainside, or am I stuck with a newspaper mission?
And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines
Villains have to suffer mainly with newspaper missions, sorry.
Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters
Are there any villain CoS Ouroboros arcs? I can't remember.
Dead Man's Deck from Mercedes Sheldon has an outdoor Carnie map. I'm not sure if it will spawn Illusionists at level 35, so give it a test. Unfortunately, it also will have 4 forced spawns of Ring Mistresses, which will cut down the number of Illusionists, but it may be better than indoors.
Well at least Villains don't need this one for accolade.
I wanto share this tactic with you all that can help get Illusionist lickity split. Get someone who has a Carnies outdoor mission in early 40s. Have some high levels for sking so you can also help lowbies if u want. Enter the mission and kill all non Master Illusionist mobs. Then split into about three groups and have each grp farm a section of the map with at least three MI mobs you can ping pong between repeatedly. When you approach an MI, kill its phantasm and go on to the next one while u wait for the phantasm summon to recharge. Using this tactic, everyone in my group got their Illusionist badge in under an hour, even those that started at zero count. Lot of happy lowbies I bet.