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Blizzard Replies to "Gold at 60 for quests": Hotfix to Add Gold Rewards to Quests of Level 48 and Higher
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A WoW Forever forum thread titled "Gold at 60 for quests" drew a reply from Blizzard community manager Kaivax on .
What the thread was about
- The original poster asked for the removal of the XP-to-gold conversion at level 60 to be reverted. They argued that quests are basically useless at 60 without a reward, and that the conversion had been one of the easy ways to earn gold for spells and mounts.
- Many replies agreed. Players said most of the gold casual players earn comes from quests, that making gold harder to earn would push more people to buy gold, and that affording a faster mount would become much harder.
- Some, pointing to a video clip, said quests at 60 gave no gold at all, not even their base gold reward. Others countered that base gold and item rewards remain and only the XP-to-gold conversion is gone.
- Some welcomed the change. They argued it was odd to delay quest turn-ins to get more gold at 60, and that the conversion encouraged grinding mobs to 60 and doing quests afterward. Others said less gold entering the game keeps inflation down.
- When one player asked Blizzard to confirm whether this was true, Kaivax quoted that post and replied.
Kaivax's reply
Iamforty: can blizard please confirm if this is true
When we evaluated the economy going into WoW: Forever, we made a conscious choice to disable the XP-to-Gold conversion for quests completed at maximum level. This change was originally introduced in 2006 in the weeks leading up the original Burning Crusade launch, and it was intended to provide a boost in gold for players who were wrapping up original WoW content in preparation for the first expansion.
We left that functionality in place in Classic Era in 2019, but we decided that for WoW: Forever, we would remove the XP to Gold conversion, as it 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. Under those conditions, the optimal way for players to level to 60 was to simply grind creatures for XP and not hand in quests at all, which is not a design we want to retain in WoW: 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.
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.
The hotfix should go live within about 24 hours (). Thank you for your feedback!
Reactions
Right after the reply, players welcomed it as good news. One said quests giving consistent gold whether you do them at 59 or 60 makes sense and does not punish people for turning them in "too soon". When another asked for dungeon XP to be fixed next, a player replied that it already had been.
What this means for players
- The XP-to-gold conversion for quests at level 60 stays disabled in WoW Forever. Blizzard confirmed this was an intentional change.
- According to the reply, only about 25% of quests have a gold reward of their own, so the rest gave no gold when completed at level 60.
- With the hotfix expected , most quests of quest level 48 or higher will give more gold, including quests that had no gold reward before.
- The reply did not say how much gold will be added, and did not mention quests below quest level 48.