WoW Forever will not restore Level 60 bonus gold for quests
But most quests from level 48 onwards will receive extra gold in an upcoming hotfix.
Back in 2006, for the original Burning Crusade launch, Blizzard introduced XP-to-Gold conversion for quests completed at maximum level.
This change was meant to boost the gold players would obtain right after completing the original World of Warcraft content. This gave you a way to properly prepare for the first expansion.
Later on, for Classic Era in 2029, Blizzard decided to keep that functionality running. So every quest past level 60 would convert the experience you would have gotten from it into a certain amount of Gold instead.
And with the launch of Forever, many were wondering if this was still the case or not.
Now, Blizzard finally cleared it up.
WoW Forever Does Not Convert XP Into Gold
In a new community post on the official forum, Blizzard confirmed that they did not keep this XP-to-Gold conversion in Forever.
The main reason for it is that they did not want players to hoard a full quest log of completed quests, just to hand them in once they passed Level 60.
That could make grinding enemies instead of completing quests the most efficient way to reach the max level, and on top of that, you would start your endgame with a bag full of Gold. Blizzard did not want players to ignore quest content just to maximise their gold earnings later.
More Gold for Quests From Level 48 Onwards
Luckily, having no XP-to-Gold conversion does not mean that you should stop completing quests past level 60.
In an upcoming Hotfix that should go live in around 24h (or less by the time you read this), they will add additional gold rewards to most quests that are level 48 or higher, including quests above level 48 that never previously rewarded gold at all.
The idea is to earn a reasonable amount of gold by completing quests at the appropriate level, instead of saving everything for level 60.
So now, if you finish a level 48+ quest, you should feel adequately rewarded with gold.
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 be go live in the next 24 hours or so. Thank you for your feedback!
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