Blizzard is adding gold to level 48+ quests in WoW: Forever

Blizzard turned off turning leftover quest XP into gold at max level in WoW: Forever, and that hit gold income harder than intended. A hotfix is coming that pays more gold on high-level quests instead.

Going into WoW: Forever, Blizzard decided to turn off the XP-to-gold conversion on quests you turn in at max level. That conversion showed up in 2006, in the weeks before the original Burning Crusade, to give people more gold while they finished vanilla content before the expansion, and Blizzard left it in Classic Era in 2019. They pulled it for Forever because it pushed you to sit on a full quest log of completed quests and hand them in after 60 for the biggest gold payout. The best way to level to 60 under that was to grind mobs for XP and not turn quests in at all, which Blizzard said "is not a design we want to retain in WoW: Forever."

In original WoW only about 25% of quests hand you raw gold, so once the XP conversion was gone a lot of quests near 60 paid nothing. Blizzard called that "a slightly more negative change than intended to gold income as you get closer to level 60."

Blizzard is putting out a hotfix that adds gold to most quests at quest level 48 or higher, including quests over 48 that never gave gold before. "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." It should go live in the next 24 hours or so.