WoW: Forever Hotfix Will Add More Gold to Higher-Level Quests

Blizzard is adjusting gold rewards in WoW: Forever after feedback that leveling near 60 felt stingier than intended. Community manager Kaivax said a hotfix planned for the next 24 hours will add extra gold to most quests with a quest level of 48 or higher, including some quests that previously didn’t award raw gold at all.

The change follows Blizzard’s earlier decision to remove XP-to-gold conversion for max-level quest turn-ins in WoW: Forever. That system existed in Classic Era, but Blizzard said it encouraged players to fill a quest log, hit level 60 through grinding, then turn everything in afterward for better gold returns. The studio says that isn’t the kind of leveling behavior it wants in Forever.

Blizzard also acknowledged that the removal hit harder than expected because, in original WoW, only about a quarter of quests gave direct gold rewards. The new hotfix is meant to make questing at the appropriate level feel more worthwhile without bringing back the max-level conversion incentive.

Kaivax also addressed dungeon experience, which has been another point of player feedback. A Sunday, November 8 hotfix raised dungeon kill XP from 40% of Classic Era values to 60%. Blizzard says it’s happy with where dungeon leveling speed sits after that adjustment, so another dungeon XP increase doesn’t appear to be planned right now.

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