WoW Forever: quests from level 48 to pay more gold

Blizzard is adding more gold to quests near the level cap in WoW Forever. In a forum post on 10 November, community manager Kaivax said a hotfix will add extra gold rewards to most quests with a quest level of 48 or higher, including quests above level 48 that never paid any gold before. The hotfix was expected to go live within about 24 hours of the post.

The post also confirms that the conversion of experience into gold for quests completed at level 60 is gone on purpose. That conversion was added in 2006, in the weeks before the original Burning Crusade launch, to give players finishing the original content a boost in gold, and it stayed in Classic Era in 2019. The first report that quests pay no bonus gold at level 60 rested on a single player's account; now Blizzard has said so itself.

The reason given is levelling. With the conversion in place, players had a reason to hold a full quest log of finished quests and hand them all in at 60 for the most gold, so the best way to level was simply to grind creatures for experience and not hand in quests at all. Blizzard says that is not a design it wants to keep in WoW Forever.

Removing it hit gold income near the cap harder than intended, because only about 25% of quests in the original game pay raw gold. The new rewards are meant to make doing quests at the right level feel worthwhile and to pay players adequately in gold for it. Blizzard did not say how much gold each quest will add.