Players pushed back, and Blizzard answered in less than a week. A WoW: Forever hotfix will add more gold to most quests of level 48 or higher, including quests that never paid any gold at all. Blizzard community manager Kaivax confirmed it on the official forums on Tuesday and said the hotfix should go live “in the next 24 hours or so.”
Watch the short YouTubeIt is Blizzard’s answer to the change players found at launch: quests stop paying bonus gold at level 60 in WoW: Forever.
No gold at level 60 was a deliberate choice, Blizzard says
In original WoW, quests you finish at max level turn their unused experience into gold. Kaivax says that rule arrived in 2006, in the weeks before The Burning Crusade, as a gold boost for players wrapping up the base game, and Classic Era kept it in 2019.
WoW: Forever drops it on purpose. According to Kaivax, the rule “created an incentive for players to hold a full quest log worth of completed quests to hand in after hitting level 60 for maximum gold returns.” That made the best way to level simply grinding creatures and not turning quests in at all, which Blizzard calls “not a design we want to retain in WoW: Forever.”
Only about 25% of original quests pay raw gold
Blizzard admits the change cost players more than it meant to. Only about a quarter of the quests in original WoW give a raw gold reward, so taking away the level 60 conversion cut gold income harder than planned as characters closed in on max level.
The hotfix adds gold to quests of level 48 and up
The fix moves the gold to where Blizzard wants you questing. Most quests with a quest level of 48 or higher will pay extra gold, and quests in that range that paid nothing before will start paying too. “The idea here is that you should feel good about doing quests at the appropriate level to progress your character, and you should feel adequately rewarded with gold for doing so,” Kaivax wrote.
The level 60 conversion is still gone, so holding a log full of finished quests until max level won’t pay out. Blizzard hasn’t said how much gold each quest gains. We’ll update this story when the hotfix is live.
Hotfix Coming Soon: Level 48+ Quests Will Give More Gold
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