Blizzard adds gold to quests from level 48

Most quests of level 48 and higher in World of Warcraft: Forever will pay more gold, including quests that never paid gold at all. Blizzard announced the hotfix on the forums on 10 November and expects it to go live within about 24 hours.

Why quests paid no gold at 60

Since the launch, a quest completed at level 60 no longer turns its experience into gold, as players noticed last week. Blizzard now confirms that this was a choice. The conversion arrived in 2006, just before The Burning Crusade, to give players gold before the first expansion.

In Classic Era it stayed, but it made players hold a full quest log of finished quests until they reached 60. The fastest way to level was then to grind monsters and not hand in quests at all. Blizzard does not want that in Forever.

However, in original WoW, only about 25% of quests in the game actually provide raw gold rewards, which led this to be a slightly more negative change than intended to gold income as you get closer to level 60.

The fix

Instead of bringing the conversion back, Blizzard adds gold to the quests themselves, starting at quest level 48:

To address this, we’re preparing a hotfix that will add additional gold rewards to most quests with a quest level of level 48 or higher, including adding gold to quests above level 48 that never previously rewarded gold at all. 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.

So hand in your quests while you level. Saving them for level 60 gives nothing extra in Forever. How much gold each quest pays after the hotfix, Blizzard does not say yet.