StormsNebula: "Lucky. I spent 5000 then gave up cause I am not going to spend another 2k 'trying'
is right"

Have you finished playing the challenge or not? It was supposed to multiply the dust according to what you won in that: wondering what the multiplication was?

Even if that is with none, it sounds like they've set it quite high. Though I suppose a Hera's pack is a good perk.

14-18 dust even with the multipliers??? That's ridiculous! I wasn't going to go for that divine anyway, because fleeces are just too expensive, but I can't believe it's *that* expensive! Even Balios in the sleigh ride could be yours *guaranteed* for less than 10,000 passes(I think it was in the 8,500-9,000 range)!

There are multipliers, it is believed (not 100% sure) we will be able to get up to 6 multipliers. I only got to 2 because the preprod testing is quite short. I don't think he will be too expensive if you take advantage of the maximum number of multipliers

Actually I only had the 2x multiplier for dust and was getting 20-30 each fleece.
That was not the highest multiplier obtainable in the great challenge either. I did not spend 10k in passes and opted to get him earlier in the promo on the test server.

Yes, there are. They are won during the GC stage by completing objectives. It is the new special offer for the Festivities (VIPs can benefits immediately, without waiting for the Festivities to start), instead of the old "open X items, open one free" we instead get divine dust multipliers. The first was x1.5, then x2, then x3 - I think there were more after that but I didn't complete all the objectives so I'm not sure what it went up to. 6 appeared on the pop-up display but as that was a glitch (it was appearing when the message should have been for x2 or x3 multipliers) we weren't sure if that was the highest amount we could actually get or just part of the glitch.

Without the multipliers it will be way too expensive to get the divine but with them it becomes more reasonable (though still not cheap). I was getting 40-50 dust most of the time once I had the x3 multiplier, compared to the 14-20 I was getting without it.

Joining the others with this.
6x should be the maximum multiplier, which brings the price at 2200 passes to get the Divine, while a 5x would take it to about 3000.
You need to finish the challenge before trying, or you really risk spending over 10000 passes.

If you're a VIP tester, you joined too late to have significant multipliers as the Testing team who entered a week before the VIP barely had time to reach a 3x.

As I said, if you're from the VIP testing you probably didn't go far enough, especially since the second part started 7 days ago. You must have had about... 3 days?

A shot of the 1.5 multiplier in action (borrowed from haffyfan on the test site):



17 dust without the multiplier became 25.5 dust with the dust, so they were definitely in place and working on the test site