Illusionist Badge

Hey, with the new reduced requirements of Illusionist, im trying to farm it on my Mace Brute so I can have the hammer, But I dont know how to spawn some Master Illusionists. How many people do I need on a team to spawn them? And whats the best way to find said Enemy to farm?

With the new Difficulty settings you won't need anyone else to spawn them, just make sure your set to have bosses in mission.

You can find Carnies redside from 30 on I think, easiest way I know is to just find a paper mission with one inside. Then just let her keep spawning her pets, kill them but never hurt her, as long as she's alive she'll keep popping out the phantoms.

Bah, keeps spawning Ring Mistresses

Ok, can somebody tell me if its even possible to spawn the Master Illusionist? I've been trying and I only ever see Ring Mistresses, and a bunch of em.

Can anybody actually vouch for spawning Master Illusionists? No matter what I do to the difficulty specs, I only see Ring Mistresses in paper mishes

Easiest way to get the badge: get a lvl 50 rescue a hostage from the Carnival newspaper mission. Set for no bosses, but there will still be a boss at the end, just downgraded to a lieutenant. Reset the mission until that last boss/lieutenant is a Master Illusionist. Then have your buddy with a fire tank come in, turn on Blazing Aura and put Healing Flames on auto, and cozy him up to the Master Ill lieutenant. Then go to bed and wake up the next day with a shiny new badge.

in the course of doing more than 12 paper run mishes, all on varrying difficulties and amount of team mates, I've never seen a Master Illusionist once, I only ever see Ring Mistresses...

Way i did this

Get a Carnie mish with Boss (important bit)

zone into mish and check boss
if illusionist yaah

otherwise leave mish and reset mish and check again

gets you an master illusionist at Lt lvls and you can farm held badge and illusionist too

First: Are you red or blue? If red, what level? I'm not sure Master Illusionists spawn at level 30 (the lowest level for Carnies redside). You may have to get higher level, or have a higher level friend help you.
EDIT: Lrn2reed, noob, he already said he's a brute! The question about level still applies though.

Second: Set your difficulty to:
- Level -1
- No bosses
- equal to 8 heroes/villains

This will make 2-3 bosses spawn in every group of enemies. They will all be downgraded to Lieutenants, but will still be the boss-class enemies. With the level at -1, you should easily be able to clear out the Minions, Lieutenants, and Ring Mistresses.

Once you have a Master Illusionist, aggro it. Avoid hitting it; you don't want it dead. Once it starts summoning, hit all its pets once each before you try to kill any - a pet that despawns on its own still counts for badge credit, as long as you did at least 1 point of damage. Remember that the Dark Servant and Phantasm also count for badge credit now.

Finally, do not set the difficulty to spawn bosses. This will just make things needlessly difficult, as the bosses will still spawn either way, but solo on "no bosses" they will scale down to Lieutenants, with weaker debuffs!

I'm level 37, and I've tried doing that, as I said earlier, ONLY Ring Mistresses spawn, every time, every run.

Like I said, I think Master Illusionists only spawn at higher levels. You may have to find 40+ or even 45+ Carnies for a chance at MIs.

Master Illusionists are 40-54, according to the AE critter files.

i found this rather easy to get now, but then the toon i was using did have trouble defeating them as they keeped on fading out and my hits where not strong against them. :S

Just fyi, I ran this on my ill farm - a lvl 40 mission I saved on a lvl 50 character. This was my old farm that I'd use and it was a means to get it done (relatively) quickly. Now it's crazy fast, took 10 minutes for a character to go from 0 to badge.