WoW: Forever is adding gold to level 48+ quests
Blizzard is hotfixing extra gold onto most WoW: Forever quests at level 48 and up after turning off max-level XP-to-gold.
WoW: Forever turned off XP-to-gold on quests you complete at max level. That conversion showed up in 2006, in the weeks before the original Burning Crusade, as a gold boost for people finishing vanilla before the first expansion. Classic Era left it in place in 2019, Forever didn’t.
That change created an incentive to hold a full quest log and hand it in after 60. It pushed people to grind mobs for XP and skip turn-ins until max level, “which is not a design we want to retain in WoW: Forever.”
Cutting that hit gold harder than Blizzard meant. In original WoW only about 25% of quests pay raw gold, so once leftover XP stopped turning into gold, most of those capped turn-ins paid nothing and gold got worse the closer you got to 60.
A hotfix will add gold to most quests with a quest level of 48 or higher, including ones that never paid 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.
