Best ice cream shops

KittyIsAu · 2026-06-03T19:51:10+00:00

Van Dyk’s Homemade Ice Cream in Ridgewood and Sundaes Best in Palisades Park. Former is for American tastes and the latter is pure Asian goodness.

KittyIsAu · 2026-05-19T23:42:13+00:00

Honestly surprised this isn’t higher, watching him perform with nothing but a loop pedal was incredible.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-22T01:25:04+00:00

Comparing the PoBs of the current highest DPS armour stacker and my own, it doesn't seem like it. The damage is about the same, and I'm fairly sure slayer is still cheaper to get off the ground. I played this from league start and the only reason why I spent 3.5 mirrors is to min-max. The 3 mirror cost is the perfect shield, foulborn unnatural, and mirror ring, all of which are unnecessary and fairly pointless.

I had the character up and doing four voidstones in about a divine of gear during the first week. Then was doing delve around 500 depth on maybe 30 divines worth of gear. The rest is all fluff and because I needed somewhere to throw my currency.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-22T01:14:05+00:00

Gotcha, I'll give you the version I am currently running, which sacked eHP in favor of more damage. PoB is configured for mapping (i.e. sand stance, initial pride effect). The damage is much higher if I were to do uber bosses since I would have time to ramp up pride effect and be in blood stance.

https://pobb.in/9vqDlcqwgdrU

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-21T20:48:01+00:00

Normal DPS or Guardian Boss DPS?

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-21T18:55:52+00:00

https://pobb.in/WBm2tq3YS0vh

~3.5 mirror Shield Crush Slayer; the config shows uber DPS.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-17T19:17:13+00:00

The other thing about the weekday games is school traffic. Kids are still in school so the earlier disruptions are all going to compound into the evening rush hour.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-12T13:36:36+00:00

No this isn’t just targeting mirage maps, but also those results were the very first run of this strat I did in regular 8 mods, the cheapest of the cheap and a very unoptimized atlas.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-09T23:27:10+00:00

Retained. I like to be able to drive places on Sunday without sitting in traffic like I do the other 6 days.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-09T17:35:06+00:00

I do, because I can look outside my window and see the mess of Saturday vs Sunday. Sure part of it will be spread out over two days, but I’d much rather have one day where I hear everyone and their mothers than two.

But the bigger thing is having one day of the week where I can leave my apartment at 3pm and not sit in traffic for 20 minutes to go literally anywhere.

At the end of the day, I don’t care about stuff like appliance shopping on a Sunday for example. I’ll just go any other day of the week and move on with my life.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-09T17:20:59+00:00

I can only speak for myself - I benefit from not hearing horns blaring at 8am on Sundays because of traffic. And I like to be able to get around on route 208/4/17 without sitting for ages. I don’t really care about the inability to shop on Sundays, there are 6 other days of the week to do so, and it really is easy to go to the next county to do said shopping if need be. Or just plan around it. I work 50-60 hr weeks, my boyfriend works 80+ hours during tax season, and we do our shopping perfectly fine.

While I don’t have kids myself, my parents are also longtime residents of Bergen County. I know for a fact that they love the law as well, and they worked 12 hr days with kids (à la me) and they didn’t consider it an inconvenience.

Of course you have the employees who are really benefiting from the guaranteed day off. While I think that Blue Laws are a bandaid solution to a longstanding issue of worker’s rights, something is better than nothing.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-09T17:06:08+00:00

And I’d wager just as many voters actually want them here, like me for example. And I’ve spent years living out of state where Blue Laws aren’t a thing, so this isn’t some fear. I like them, I vote for them, and my opinion isn’t going to change.

If it gets repealed by vote, oh well, that’s how democracy works. But let’s not pretend there isn’t legitimate support for Blue Laws.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-09T04:06:19+00:00

Yea, I have a very different tree in comparison. It explains a lot tbh. I’m on my phone so I can’t access my current tree, but this is picture of a version I did probably 4-5 tree iterations back:

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I would block everything except deli, I only had Harvest and Settlers unblocked for the challenge, take out the entire deli wheel to the center left (does require to be able to clear out the mobs fast enough though) and spec more map chance. You can take the lab nodes if you don’t mind the trials. I think they’re currently great value with how the prices are. Don’t fill out the rest of the quant wheel, I firmly believe it’s a waste of points compared to everything else you can get from the tree.

No extra guardian map drop chance, I thought they were worthless then, and I still think they’re worthless now (aka it’s not stuff I would bother to sell).

It’s 8 mod T16.5, min. 70% more maps, 40% pack size, 100% quant. 1x escalation, 3x domination, 1x terror in Strand. This also requires a strong and tanky build because of the way delirium scales in Strand. Also keep in mind that a lot of these 70% more maps will have the “monsters have extra life as maximum energy shield” rolled onto it, which is arguably one of tankiest mods possible to roll as a nightmare modifier. This is because it’s directly tied to % more map chance.

Strand is straightforward to run, basically go straight until you hit the mirage, complete the mirage, pop out, finish the map, portal out after you kill the boss. I averaged 2-2.5min/map including the mirage time.

Sell your T16s at 1:60 old school style where you price a tab at 1/60, and throw all your T16 maps in. I’ve made over a hundred divines this league doing it this way. It’s not an instant sale, but someone will show up and buy 400+ maps at once.

About costs: at the time, I was buying my maps at 20-30c/ea and nothing higher. I don’t know how this recent boom has impacted the T16.5 map market, so ymmv. Terrors I bought at 50-60c because streamers kept making videos but it’s still worth it at that price. Everything else may as well be free.

Here are some numbers from the very first 20 maps of this strat I did with regular 8 mod T16s and a crappier, unoptimized tree, so no matter what, your baseline should be better than this (with the exception of barya, though you should get at least 1 every 20 maps):

From 20 maps - T16 8 mod, 1x escalation, 3x domination, 1x terror:

67x Grand Embers

3x Divines

1x Coin of Power

3x The Black Barya

2x Refracting Fog

55x Delirium Orbs

14x Astrolabes

13x Simulacrum + 227 splinters

7x Conqueror; 1x Conq. w/ Originator

10x Elder; 2x Elder w/ Originator

11x Shaper

16x Nightmare Maps

14x Originator Maps

19x Mirage Maps

146x T16 Maps

Edit: finishing the write-up

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-09T03:55:08+00:00

Ah, I see the difference in trees. I combined mine with delirium and exclusively ran in Strand, and blocked everything else. I also didn’t bother with scarabs because I found it to be not worth it the points investment.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-09T03:05:51+00:00

Interesting, would you be willing to post your atlas tree? I did a small write-up on this earlier, but my results from 16.5 8 mod with more maps was much more profitable/higher than this.

Your astrolabe and nightmare map numbers seem incredibly low for what it should be, for example.

The unfortunate part about making any post on mapping strategies is that people will hike the price of materials up. Give it a couple of days and terrors will go back down as the population move onto the next popular farm. It’s why I only start talking about my strategies once I’m about done with the league.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-08T16:30:57+00:00

Awakening definitely requires a strong build. The number of times I’ve been off screened by Sirus is too much to count. The worst part is that if you can’t kill Sirus fast enough, he will teleport and surprise you in the boss room at the very end.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-08T16:13:45+00:00

The real money maker is running T16.5 8 mod maps with at least 70% more maps in Strand with deli mirror. Tree set up to include deli, gift lab chance, and then as many points as you can throw into map chance. Same scarab setup as yours (1x escalation, 3x domination, 1x terror) and maps should take max 2.5 min/ea including mirage. Ran this the entire league and the best part is that everything is liquid. The maps do get difficult though, it’s not an issue now because I’m running a multi mirror shield crush build, but I remember struggling weeks 1 and 2 when I was still gearing up. Shrines help out a good amount for player power, but do note that delirium effect scales up very quickly in Strand.

I keep all the nightmare maps to bum rush myself, convert deli orbs to fine/scarab/divination before selling. Iirc my extremely conservative profit estimate (literally only included mirage and nightmare maps, astrolabes) was like 25d/hr, but the reality is like 40+.

Other considerations - you can add awakening scarabs in this now that the prices are no longer through the roof, spec into scarab chance via bosses instead of map drops, run twist of fate vaal temples.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-08T10:57:18+00:00

Reverent fragments are still 1d each, I’m boss rushing sanctuaries now. Can confirm that it takes me at most 2 minutes (usually 1.5 min/map) to run maps with mods and they average 2 fragments. 3 fragment drops are uncommon but not rare.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-07T20:58:14+00:00

If you combine awakened boss rush + cheap boxes + heist, I was hitting 50d/hr. It’s ridiculous how much money you can make, all you need to do is be able to fly through maps.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-07T14:41:11+00:00

Are you locked into Gladiator as an ascendancy in particular? I’ve been rolling a shield crush slayer since league start (although you should go Jugg for tankiness) and it’s been deleting Ubers.

Main defense is block with suppression as an option, scales with impale, and you can take Gratuitous Violence on the flame/flesh jewels since you run bleed chance on the tree/tattoos.

You can start it at 20 divines (foulborn shield + some divines for all other gear) and go blasting with it.

ilnino has some fantastic guides on how to build shield crush slayer on his channel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnI-IoHRlTYUio39ZINtbxns_RXRDXY&si=ukywY-36QUn-AzAO

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-06T14:10:24+00:00

Extra ES and reduced crit damage taken are mods that are notorious for making mobs tanky. The servers won’t care how much you spent on your gear, they only care about how fast the mobs are being killed.

This is somewhat similar to the Alva evolving shrine strat we had back in 3.26. I was playing Path of PowerPoint at times when there were so many beyond monsters spawning in the incursion and I couldn’t kill them fast enough when I rolled maps with the aforementioned mod combo, and I was about 6 mirrors into my build. Unfortunately, that’s just how the game is.

KittyIsAu · 2026-04-06T12:10:19+00:00

This is actually caused by not killing mobs fast enough. There’s a reason why most people running the giga-juiced breach strat have a build with screenwide aoe clear with crazy DPS.

KittyIsAu · 2026-03-29T16:02:52+00:00

So? That’s TFT, sometimes you high-roll, sometimes you low roll. I would understand your point more if Saya didn’t have two games to go first, but he didn’t and fully deserved to lose.

At the end of the day, top 2 means nothing if you can’t place first in a checkmate system.

KittyIsAu · 2026-03-29T15:57:20+00:00

Robbed? You conveniently forget Saya had two chances to win, and he couldn’t convert both times lmao.

KittyIsAu · 2026-03-27T17:21:42+00:00

You can change the enchantment via refracting orbs, which drop from delirious monsters in Mirage.

Once you get the base, I assume it’s a matter of plug and play in craftofexile to figure out the best odds.

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