I doubt you will find a newer Illusion/Sonic guide . . . Sonic in general and Ill/Sonic in particular is not very popular. I have taken Ill/Rad, Ill/Storm and Ill/TA all to 50, and I'm still working on Ill/Kin. I would go with Ill/Cold and Ill/Therm before Ill/Sonic.
Probably the best you can do is put together a current Illusion guide with the most recent Sonic guide and try to mesh them.
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Guide Links: Earth/Rad Guide, Illusion/Rad Guide, Electric Control
You have a point there 
I'm going to look over your illu/rad guide, it seems interesting. Thanks!
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I am actually in the process of trying this combo. Only lvl 6, but so far not bad. Which is how I came across this forum topic. Why is sonic so unpopular?
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Originally Posted by Local_Man
I doubt you will find a newer Illusion/Sonic guide . . . Sonic in general and Ill/Sonic in particular is not very popular. I have taken Ill/Rad, Ill/Storm and Ill/TA all to 50, and I'm still working on Ill/Kin. I would go with Ill/Cold and Ill/Therm before Ill/Sonic
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A few reasons: Sonic is a Resistance-based set with no heals and a fairly high endurance cost. It has a couple of powers that are not very popular (an Intangible and an ally knockback field). Liquify is disappointing as a Tier 9. And it has a bad reputation for the graphics (which used to be a significant problem for some people before they were changed). While the set will increase your team's damage, the set itself is not very solo-friendly since it has several ally-only powers.
Thermal is also Resistance-based, but has heals and more useful powers overall. Force Fields has the same mez protection as Sonic, and Defense is generally viewed as being better than Resistance since many characters can get some kind of defense -- and FF has PFF, one of the best self-protection powers in the game. Some people don't like "buffing sets." And since it is one of the newer sets, none of the older player's favorite characters have it.
As for Ill/Sonic, Sonic has no Recharge buff (like Rad or Kin) or Defense Debuff (like Rad or TA or Storm or Therm or Cold), but it does have a nice Resistance Debuff that can actually be anchored on Phantom Army to boost their damage. Rad, TA, Storm, Cold and Therm also have Resistance Debuffs.
A few people seem to love Sonic. I tried a Fire/Sonic Controller once . . . and it just didn't seem like much fun to me. If I was going to try again, I'd probably go with Earth/Sonic, or maybe Elec/Sonic -- I've never heard of someone using that second combo. The pulsing graphics might drive some folks nuts, though.
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Guide Links: Earth/Rad Guide, Illusion/Rad Guide, Electric Control
I'm kinda on the look out for a guide for ill/sonic.
I found one via google, but as far as I can see, it's from 2007 so I fear it's a little outdated. Anyone know of one which is newer than that?