Hi, everyone! I'm here to show you all my guide to APQ/OPQ's second stage. After seeing people do it countless ways, I dug up my old guide from 6 years ago and decided to post it here. This guide explains the logic behind the Different/Same results, and what the best way is to figure out the answer. Sorry for the awful JPEG quality, but this IS an old guide. I may remake it sometime to look better, but the logic and steps would be the exact same. EDIT: 14/10 - Adding this here because it looks like the wording is different in this server; 2 are different means 1 weighs the same (blue line). 3 are different means all weigh different (red line). I hope this helps!
Only somewhat, though! My steps are different and include an explanation to the Diff steps. I do the 500 (Diff) --> 041 route, while they do the 500 (Diff) --> 311 route. The difference is in exhausting every option by making sure there are no 0's in the combo before moving on.
When I run I try to make the most minimal movements by party members so I do prefer 311 over the 041 method but I fully agree on the 500 same -> 410 if same 320 and if diff -> 401.
Hello! Sorry for bringing up this old thread... But I have a question... Sometimes, my party gets things like: "2 are different" "3 are different" etc... What do the '2' and '3' mean? Do we still follow the different path as you have posted?
That sounds like it's saying how many of the strings are different. 2 being different means one of them is correct and 3 being different means all three are incorrect. I assume this is specific to this server because I've never seen it worded like that before. But going by what this means, it simply means this: 2 are different means 1 weighs the same (blue line). 3 are different means all weigh different (red line). Hope that helps!
