WoW Forever quests pay no bonus gold at level 60, and a Blizzard dev reportedly says it's intentional

Don’t save your quests for 60. The first players to hit the level cap in World of Warcraft: Forever have found that a long-standing Classic habit no longer pays. In Classic Era, a quest turned in at max level can’t give experience, so the game pays out bonus gold in its place. In Forever, that conversion appears to be gone.

Where this came from

Streamer Jokerd, whose group took world-first level 60 on November 6 per Output Lag, noticed his max-level turn-ins weren’t paying out the extra gold. He said on stream that he messaged a WoW developer and was told it is an intentional change. According to Wowhead, the developer also floated a possible weekly quest that pays a random amount of gold instead. That has not been announced, dated or detailed.

The important caveat: Blizzard hasn’t confirmed any of this on its own channels. As of early Sunday, Timesaver found no staff reply in the US or EU forum threads about it and nothing on the Blue Tracker. Only a handful of players are at 60, so very few people can check it for themselves yet.

What’s actually changed

Only the bonus is affected. As Bolverk Games points out, citing Icy Veins, a quest with a fixed coin reward still pays that coin at 60, and item and reputation rewards are still there. What’s missing is the extra gold that used to stand in for experience. Wowhead also notes Blizzard has been nudging Forever’s economy in other ways already, including Auction House listing price adjustments and new vendors that put a soft cap on some reagent prices.

PPR take: Anyone who played Classic knows the move: skip a stack of quests on the way up, then dump them at 60 for your first real pile of gold toward an epic mount. Losing that hurts, especially with Journeyman Riding sitting around 1,000 gold in the beta client according to Timesaver. On the other hand, Blizzard clearly wants Forever’s economy to be about playing the world, not about a turn-in trick, and a weekly gold quest would be a fairer, steadier faucet if it actually shows up. For now, the practical advice is simple: do your quests while the experience still helps you level, and treat the “intentional” part as reported, not official, until Blizzard says so itself.