newGold Returns to Max-Level Quests: Blizzard Adding Gold to Most Level 48+ Quests in WoW: Forever, Including Ones That Never Paid

Blizzard community manager Kaivax posted a blue reply at post 165 of the player thread Gold at 60 for quests on the official US forums at 05:56 Beijing time November 11: WoW: Forever will add gold rewards to most quests of quest level 48 or higher, including quests that never previously paid any gold, via a hotfix expected to go live roughly within 24 hours of the post (by around the morning of November 12 Beijing time). Blizzard confirmed that removing the XP-to-gold conversion for max-level quests was intentional — a mechanic introduced in 2006, weeks before The Burning Crusade launched and kept in Classic Era in 2019, removed for Forever because holding a full quest log of completed turn-ins until 60 yielded maximum gold, making grinding mobs without handing in quests the optimal way to level; but only about 25% of quests in original WoW pay raw gold, so gold income near 60 dropped harder than Blizzard intended. How much gold each quest will pay, which quests fall outside the most group and the hotfix's exact deployment time are not announced, and no restoration of the XP-to-gold conversion was announced. Three days after this site reported the zero-gold finding on November 8, Blizzard has now officially confirmed and partially reversed it.

Published: 2026-11-11 Game version: Forever 60 Source published: 2026-11-11 Updated: 2026-11-11

Gold is coming back to max-level quest rewards. In reply 165 of the player thread "Gold at 60 for quests" on the official US forums, Blizzard community manager Kaivax announced that most quests of quest level 48 or higher in WoW: Forever will get gold rewards added — including quests that have never paid a single copper — via a hotfix expected to go live roughly within 24 hours of the post. Three days earlier, when Wowhead reported that max-level quests paid zero gold, Blizzard had said nothing at all. This time it not only owned the change, it shipped the fix plan in the same breath.

If you read our November 8 piece on quest rewards dropping from gold to zero at 60, the line you struck out of your income sheet can come back — with the amount left blank for now. Blizzard gave no numbers, and nothing was announced about bringing back the old XP-to-gold conversion; what's being added is gold on the quests themselves.

The quest-log hoarding meta is what Blizzard set out to kill

The blue post lays out the full history. The XP-to-gold conversion dates to 2006, added in the weeks before The Burning Crusade launched so players wrapping up original WoW had a gold cushion, and it survived into Classic Era in 2019. For Forever, Blizzard removed it because players were holding a full quest log of completed turn-ins until level 60 to cash out at maximum value — under those rules, the optimal way to level was grinding mobs and never handing in a single quest. That, the post says, is not a design Forever should keep.

The trouble is that only about 25% of quests in original WoW pay raw gold, so turning the conversion off hit gold income near 60 harder than Blizzard intended — hence this rollback.

Where the reply landed is its own story. The thread was started by a player, GoPokes87-551333, in the early hours of November 8 Beijing time, titled simply "Gold at 60 for quests." Four days and well over two hundred posts later, Blizzard answered the question at post 165. As of this writing on the morning of November 11 Beijing time, the thread was still climbing and no further official reply had followed.

Level 48 is the line, and "most" leaves a gap

The line is quest level, not your character's level: most quests at quest level 48 or above gain extra gold, including ones that never paid gold before. The stated design goal, in Blizzard's words: "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."

What remains not announced: how much gold each quest will pay, which quests fall outside "most," and the hotfix's exact deployment time — the post only says "in the next 24 hours or so," which puts it before roughly the morning of November 12, Beijing time. Whether it has gone live is easiest to check the direct way: hand in any quest level 48 or above and read the reward panel.

One month before raids, a supply line reopens

The first raids open December 10 (per the Chinese-region announcement; December 9 per the US one), and flasks, potions, enchants and repairs all cost gold — while the pick-up-gold-at-60 income line has been mostly dead since launch. Once the hotfix lands, both the 48-to-60 leveling stretch and a hoarded backlog of turn-ins at 60 start producing gold again. Where Auction House prices go from there, nobody has measurable data on day 7 — don't bet on a one-way market.

Three things you can do now

If you're leveling above 48: turning in quests at level is worth doing again — Blizzard explicitly doesn't want you hoarding. Hand in as you go once the hotfix is live.
If you're already 60 with a full log: you can wait for the hotfix before turning in. Just remember this is not the old Era conversion cashback — it's gold on the quests themselves, and the only way to price it is to hand one in and look.
If you keep a gold spreadsheet: put that struck-out line back, marked "amount pending live testing." Wait for the hotfix notes or an in-game check before setting figures.

The blue post at reply 165 is linked in the sources below. If Blizzard follows up with hotfix notes once it lands, read them before deciding whether that backlog gets turned in today or tomorrow.